I haven't been able to find a ...
Question: I haven't been able to find a movie I saw as a kid and whose title I don't remember; I'd say it was made between 1940 and 1960. There's a scene where this lady goes into her yard and picks money out of the flowers on a bush, which is covered in bills of many denominations every morning. She keeps the money in a cookie jar, but the day she decides to show her husband the money it's all turned into dried leaves. Can you help?
Answer: You're looking for a little-known comedy called It Grows on Trees (1952), starring Irene Dunne and Dean Jagger as a couple whose yard contains not one, but two, money trees. Housewife Dunne writes to the Department of the Treasury asking whether the $5 and $10 bills she's harvesting are legal tender; they, obviously thinking it's a gag, tell her to go right ahead. Her spending spree comes to a halt when the bills start shriveling up like the dead leaves they are. The bad news is that this film doesn't ever seem to have been available on commercial video or DVD. The only place I've ever seen it for sale is on a site called Robert's Hard to Find Videos, which has VHS copies of dubious provenance (I'd guess taped from TV).
