The Luck of the Irish
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Directed by	Henry Koster
Written by	Philip Dunne
Produced by	Fred Kohlmar
Starring	Tyrone Power Anne Baxter Cecil Kellaway Lee J. Cobb
Cinematography	Joseph LaShelle
Edited by	J. Watson Webb Jr.
Music by	Cyril Mockridge
Production company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	September 15, 1948 (1948-09-15)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Luck of the Irish is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Henry Koster, and starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter.^[1] The film was based on the 1948 novel There Was a Little Man by Guy Pearce Jones and Constance Bridges Jones.

Stephen Fitzgerald, a newspaper reporter from New York, meets a leprechaun and beautiful young Nora, while traveling in Ireland. When he returns to his fiancée, Frances, and her wealthy father, David C. Augur, in the midst of a political campaign in New York, he finds that the leprechaun and the young woman are now in the big city as well. Stephen is torn between the wealth he might enjoy in New York and returning to his roots in Ireland.

• Best Supporting Actor (nomination) - Cecil Kellaway

The Luck of the Irish was presented on Lux Radio Theatre on CBS December 27, 1948. The adaptation starred Dana Andrews, Baxter, Kellaway, and Stanley Holloway.^[3]

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