| Happiness Ahead | |
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| Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Written by | Brian Marlow Harry Sauber |
| Produced by | First National Pictures |
| Starring | Dick Powell Josephine Hutchinson |
| Cinematography | Tony Gaudio |
| Edited by | William Clemens |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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]
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.
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]
The film is preserved in the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation collection. [3]
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