The Life of Riley (1949)

Name: The Life of Riley
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1949-10-04
Rating: 8.0
Cast: Gloria Winters, Rosemary DeCamp, Jackie Gleason, Bob Jellison, Lanny Rees

First aired October 4, 194930m/ep1 season · 26 epsEnded

8.0

3 votes

Comedy

Overview

Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every turn of fate became a catch phrase: 'What a revoltin' development this is!"