The Long, Long Trailer

The Long, Long Trailer
The Long, Long Trailer
	Release poster
Directed by	Vincente Minnelli
Screenplay by	Albert Hackett; Frances Goodrich
Based on	The Long, Long Trailer; 1951 novel; by Clinton Twiss
Produced by	Pandro S. Berman
Starring	Lucille Ball; Desi Arnaz; Marjorie Main; Keenan Wynn
Cinematography	Robert Surtees
Edited by	Ferris Webster
Music by	Adolph Deutsch
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's Inc.
Release date	February 18, 1954;
Running time	96 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$1.5 million
Box office	$5 million

The Long, Long Trailer is a 1954 American Anscocolor road comedy film based on a novel of the same name written by Clinton Twiss in 1951 about a couple who buy a new travel trailer home and spend a year traveling across the United States.^[3]

The film stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. It also features Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Bert Freed, Moroni Olsen, Gladys Hurlbut, Madge Blake, Howard McNear, and Walter Baldwin. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, working from a screenplay by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich.

^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1954', Variety Weekly, January 5, 1955
^ Variety film review; January 6, 1954, page 52.

[Mannix-1] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[2] 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1954', Variety Weekly, January 5, 1955

[WVrev-3] Variety film review; January 6, 1954, page 52.

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