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Happiness Ahead (1934 film)

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Happiness Ahead
Directed byMervyn LeRoy
Written byBrian Marlow
Harry Sauber
Produced byFirst National Pictures
StarringDick Powell
Josephine Hutchinson
CinematographyTony Gaudio
Edited byWilliam Clemens
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • October 27, 1934 (1934-10-27)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Happiness Ahead is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Dick Powell with Josephine Hutchinson.[1] This was Hutchinson's (credited) debut.[2]

Plot

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Joan Bradford is a society heiress who rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working-class girl and dating a window washer.

Cast

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Reception

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Andre Sennwald, critic for The New York Times, called it "a winning and agreeable film", adding: "Mervyn LeRoy, the director of detonating screen melodramas, goes soft and sentimental in his new work without losing his grip on life. "Happiness Ahead" has a continuously warming effect and it produces a mood of benevolence and good cheer. In addition to the strawberry and heart-popping tunes, there are the title number and "Beauty Must Be Loved," which have a good uplift percentage in Dick Powell's sunny tenor. Mr. LeRoy seems to have made a lot out of a little.[2]

Preservation status

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The film is preserved in the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation collection.[3]

References

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  1. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Happiness Ahead
  2. ^ a b Sennwald, Andre (October 11, 1934). "Josephine Hutchinson Makes a Film Debut in "Happiness Ahead," at the Strand -- "Wake Up and Dream."". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.74 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
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