The Girl Next Door
Directed by	Richard Sale
Written by	Isobel Lennart
Story by	Leslie Bush-Fekete Maria Fagyas
Produced by	Robert Bassler
Starring	June Haver Dan Dailey Dennis Day
Cinematography	Leon Shamroy
Edited by	Robert L. Simpson
Music by	Lionel Newman
Production company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	May 13, 1953 (1953-05-13)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.2 million (US)[1]

The Girl Next Door is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Richard Sale and starring June Haver, Dan Dailey, and Dennis Day. It was made and released by 20th Century Fox.

Plot

A popular performer, Jeannie Laird decides to buy her first house and celebrate with a big party. The guests' enjoyment is interfered with by the happenings at the home of the next door neighbor, Bill Carter.

Carter is a comic-strip artist. He prides himself on every story he tells being true to life, including that of 10-year-old son Joey, whom he is raising alone. When a relationship blossoms between Bill and Jeannie after a shaky start, a neglected Joey ends up blabbing to Bill's bosses that the comic strip's adventures have become far more fiction than fact.

Cast

• Dan Dailey as Bill Carter
• June Haver as Jeannie Laird
• Dennis Day as Reed Appleton
• Billy Gray as Joey Carter
• Cara Williams as Rosie Green
• Natalie Schafer as Evelyn, the maid
• Clinton Sundberg as Samuels, the butler
• Hayden Rorke as Henry Fields
• Mary Jane Saunders as Kitty

Background

This was June Haver's last film appearance. Haver had gained fame in the mid-to-late 1940s as a musical star for Fox; she starred in films like The Dolly Sisters, Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Where Do We Go from Here?, I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, Look for the Silver Lining, and I'll Get By. Haver departed from films to join a convent in 1952, but left the convent six months later and married actor Fred MacMurray.

When released, The Girl Next Door drew mixed press reviews; it did moderately well at the box-office.