O. Henry's Full House

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' 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 turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

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  Fred Allen

  Sam "Slick" Brown (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
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  Anne Baxter

  Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
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  Jeanne Crain

  Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
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  Farley Granger

  Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
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  Charles Laughton

  Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
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  Oscar Levant

  William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
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  Marilyn Monroe

  Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
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  Jean Peters

  Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
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  Gregory Ratoff

  Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")
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  Dale Robertson

  Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")