Apartment for Peggy

Apartment for Peggy1948

Genre: Drama
Apartment for Peggy is a 1948 American comedy-drama film about a depressed professor whose spirits are lifted when he rents part of his home to a young couple. It was based on the novelette An Apartment for Jenny by Faith Baldwin. Campus exteriors w… more »



Prof. Henry Barnes:
I find it singularly curious that if a doctor tells us that peanut shells are good for us, we eat them. If a chemist maintains that one gasoline is better than another we use it. We're guided by experts on everything from soap chips to foreign policy and yet on the most important thing of all how to live we pay no attention. Ever since man began to think great minds have been telling us the pleasure in living is helping, but happiness comes from a simple, useful constructive life. But yet we call this kind of advice infantile, impractical and hopelessly idealistic.

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