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{{short description|Play and 1945 film directed by Henry Cass}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = 29 Acacia Avenue
| image = "29_Acacia_Avenue"_(1945).jpg
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| director = [[Henry Cass]]
| writer = Denis and [[Mabel Constanduros]] (play) [[Muriel Box|Muriel]] and [[Sydney Box]] (screenplay)
| producer = Sydney Box
| starring = [[Gordon Harker]] [[Betty Balfour]] [[Jimmy Hanley]] [[Hubert Gregg]] Jill Evans [[Henry Kendall (actor)|Henry Kendall]] [[Dinah Sheridan]] [[Megs Jenkins]] [[Noele Gordon]] [[Guy Middleton]]
| cinematography = [[Ernest Palmer (British cinematographer)|Ernest Palmer]] Robert Huke
| editing = [[Julian Wintle]]
| music = [[Muir Mathieson]] (musical director)
| studio = [[Columbia (British) Productions|Columbia British Productions]] Boca Productions
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] Corporation (United Kingdom) Oxford Films (United States)
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1945|5||UK|1949|10|30|US}}
| runtime = 83 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = £30,000<ref>Geoffrey Macnab, ''J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry'', London, Routledge (1993), p119</ref> or £45,000<ref>Andrew Spicer, The Lion That Lost Its Way and Other Cautionary Tales of the Show Business Jungle: the autobiography of Sydney Box</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/lifetoremember0000macq/mode/1up?q=%22earl+st+john%22|last=MacQuitty|first= William|title= A Life to Remember|publisher=Quartet books|year= 1994|page=296|isbn=9780704327894 }}</ref>

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'''''29 Acacia Avenue''''' is a play by Denis and [[Mabel Constanduros]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Constanduros|first1=Mabel|last2=Constanduros|first2=Denis|title=Acacia Avenue: A Comedy in Three Acts|date=1944|publisher=French|location=London|edition=French's acting}}</ref> Its 1945 British [[comedy-drama]] film adaptation, directed by [[Henry Cass]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Drazin|first1=Charles|title=The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 1940s|date=1998|publisher=Andre Deutsch|location=London|isbn=9780233989853|page=206}}</ref> was released in the U.S. as '''''The Facts of Love'''''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b92d93a|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712061120/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b92d93a|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-12|title=29, Acacia Avenue|work=BFI}}</ref>

==Premise==
Peter Robinson falls in love with the naïve country girl Fay and the worldly, wealthy and already-married Joan, and lives with them both (and Joan's husband) at his parents' house. However, one day Peter's parents unexpectedly return from holiday, and all hell breaks loose.

==Cast==
*[[Gordon Harker]] as Mr. Robinson
*[[Betty Balfour]] as Mrs. Robinson
*[[Jimmy Hanley]] as Peter Robinson
*[[Carla Lehmann]] as Fay
*[[Hubert Gregg]] as Michael
*Jill Evans as Joan
*[[Henry Kendall (actor)|Henry Kendall]] as Mr. Wilson
*[[Dinah Sheridan]] as Pepper
*[[Megs Jenkins]] as Shirley
*[[Noele Gordon]] as Mrs. Wilson
*[[Guy Middleton]] as Gerald
*[[Aubrey Mallalieu]] as Martin

==Critical reception==
[[Allmovie]] wrote, "one of the few [[low-budget]] British programmers to enjoy a reasonably widespread American release...The film weaves three separate romantic [[subplot]]s into an entertaining unified whole";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/facts-of-love-v90861|title=Facts of Love (1945) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie|work=AllMovie}}</ref> though [[Sky Movies]] called the film "one wartime [[West End theatre|West End]] success that didn't transfer too well to screen, ending up embarrassingly stagey";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://skymovies.sky.com/29-acacia-avenue/review|title=29 Acacia Avenue|work=Find and Watch}}</ref> but the ''[[Radio Times]]'' thought that although the film "fails to fully disguise its theatrical origins...it nevertheless makes for pleasant period entertainment, with particularly likeable performances from British veterans Gordon Harker and Betty Balfour as the parents."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/mdjrz/29-acacia-avenue|title=29 Acacia Avenue|author=Tony Sloman|work=RadioTimes}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0037489}}
*{{Amg movie|90861|29 Acacia Avenue}}

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[[Category:1945 comedy-drama films]]
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[[Category:Films directed by Henry Cass]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:Films set in Sussex]]
[[Category:Films produced by Sydney Box]]
[[Category:Columbia Pictures films]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1940s British films]]
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