I Live in Grosvenor Square
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
Herbert Wilcox
Casts & Crew
Anna Neagle
Rex Harrison
Dean Jagger
Robert Morley
Nancy Price
Irene Vanbrugh
Jane Darwell
Eliott Arluck
Walter Hudd
Edward Rigby
Cecil Ramage
Irene Manning
Francis Pierlot
Aubrey Mallalieu
Michael Shepley
Charles Victor
Ronald Shiner
Percy Walsh
Brenda Bruce
Shelagh Fraser
John Slater
H.R. Hignett
Neville Mapp
Helen Lowry
Alvar Liddell
Peter Hobbes
David Horne
Cyril Baker
Frank Webster
Lionel Murton
Norman Williams
Arvid Dahl
Gerry Wilmot
Robert Farnon
Carroll Gibbons
Joan Hickson
Duncan McIntyre
George Spence
John Stone
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