O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Directed by
Henry Hathaway
Howard Hawks

Writing credits
Richard L. Breen (segment)
Walter Bullock (segment)

Tagline
A dozen top stars - five famed directors bring you the best stories of O. Henry!

Cast
Fred Allen ... Sam 'Slick' Brown (The Ransom of Red Chief)
Anne Baxter ... Joanna Goodwin (The Last Leaf)
Jeanne Crain ... Della (The Gift of the Magi)
Farley Granger ... Jim (The Gift of the Magi)
Charles Laughton ... Soapy (The Cop and the Anthem)
Oscar Levant ... Bill Peoria (The Ransom of Red Chief)
Marilyn Monroe ... Streetwalker (The Cop and the Anthem)
Jean Peters ... Susan Goodwin (The Last Leaf)
Gregory Ratoff ... Behrman (The Last Leaf)
Dale Robertson ... Barney Woods (The Clarion Call)
David Wayne ... Horace (The Cop and the Anthem)
Richard Widmark ... Johnny Kernan (The Clarion Call)
Joyce Mackenzie ... Hazel
Lee Aaker ... J. B. Dorset aka Red Chief (The Ransom of Red Chief)
Richard Rober ... Chief of Detectives (The Clarion Call)

Plot
Five O' Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critic's acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she (Marilyn Monroe) turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call" (Robertson, Widmark); "The Last Leaf" (Baxter, Peters, Ratoff), "The Ransom of Red Chief" (Allen, Levant, Aaker), and "The Gift of the Magi" (Crain, Granger).

Trivia
Marilyn Monroe was billed as the star of the film despite the fact that she's only on camera for about one minute.