Tenth Avenue Angel is a 1948 American drama film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Margaret O'Brien, Angela Lansbury, and George Murphy.

[6] Eight-year-old Flavia lives in a New York tenement during the Great Depression with mother Helen and father Joe, who's nearly broke and needs a job.

This leads her to hide a mouse in a cigar box in the alley near Mac (the blind newspaper man)'s stand.

Two neighborhood youths rob Mac and, by coincidence, hide the money right by the girl's box with the mouse.

The film was an expensive failure at the box office, earning only $725,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $75,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $1,227,000.