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Love Happy

Love Happy

Comedy · Music · 1949

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

Movie details

Love Happy

“New Musical Girlesque!!!”

1949 Comedy · Music 1h 25m

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TMDB

5.8 / 10

Community rating

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

CriticWise case file

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

David Miller

Written by

Mac Benoff · Harpo Marx · Frank Tashlin

Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx

Sam Grunion

Harpo Marx

Harpo Marx

Harpo

Chico Marx

Chico Marx

Faustino

Ilona Massey

Ilona Massey

Madame Egelichi

Vera-Ellen

Vera-Ellen

Maggie Phillips

Marion Hutton

Marion Hutton

Bunny Dolan

Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr

Alphonse Zoto

Court is in session

Put Love Happy on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Big-Idea Head

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.