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Many Happy Returns (1934 film)

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Many Happy Returns
Directed byNorman Z. McLeod
Written byLady Mary Cameron (story "Often a Bridegroom"), Ray Harris, Keene Thompson
Screenplay byClaude Binyon, J.P. McEvoy
CinematographyHenry Sharp
Edited byRichard C. Currier
Music byArthur Johnston (uncredited)
Production
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Release date
  • June 8, 1934 (1934-06-08)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Many Happy Returns is a 1934 American pre-Code Paramount Pictures comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Gracie Allen, George Burns and George Barbier.[1]

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In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Mordaunt Hall wrote: "[The film] depends chiefly on Gracie Allen and George Burns for its mirth. It is one of those impossible features where almost anything is likely to happen. Given the slightest excuse, orchestral and other music is played. .... The activities in this film in going from Gotham to Hollywood appear to have been a little too much for both Miss Allen and Mr. Burns, for they seem to have run out of really funny lines."[2]

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  1. ^ "Many Happy Returns". TCM. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  2. ^ Hall, Mordaunt (1934-06-09). "The Screen: Burns and Allen". The New York Times. p. 18.
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