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Happy Go Lovely

Happy Go Lovely

1951Movie⏱️ 1h 37mApproved
ComedyMusicalRomance
6.5
IMDB Rating
953 votes

A chorus girl gets a ride from millionaire Bruno's driver. The cash-strapped theater director thinks, she's Bruno's girlfriend and makes her the lead. She meets Bruno, thinking he's a reporter. More confusion follows.

Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Writers
Val Guest, Friedrich Dammann, Herbert Rosenfeld
Stars
David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero
Release Date
September 3, 1951
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
💬 36
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

David Niven
David Niven
as B.G. Bruno
Vera-Ellen
Vera-Ellen
as Janet Jones
Cesar Romero
Cesar Romero
as John Frost
Bobby Howes
Bobby Howes
as Charlie
Diane Hart
Diane Hart
as Mae
Gordon Jackson
Gordon Jackson
as Paul Tracy
👤
Barbara Couper
as Madame Amanda
👤
Henry Hewitt
as Dodds
Gladys Henson
Gladys Henson
as Mrs. Urquhart
👤
Hugh Dempster
as Bates

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Filming Location
Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Production
Marcel Hellman Productions

🏷️ Keywords

revueedinburgh scotlandoverdue rentpipe bandparade

🎯 Categories

ComedyMusicalRomance

⭐ Featured Review

Very nice comedy, strangely poor musical
by imdb-80062010-11-07
6/10

"As a lightweight British post-war comedy, it's fine. David Niven's really charming, Vera-Ellen's trying like crazy. As a musical, it's very odd. There's nearly no 'musical' in it, and when you finally get to the two on-stage numbers near the end, you'll be glad. There's one long imitation Gene Kelly odyssey piece about a little girl in a big city that's strangely small and mean and bad. It looks like it should at the start, but I'd swear there wasn't any choreography design per se, just the general idea of a Kelly avant-garde set. Lar..."

💡 Did You Know?

The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

📖 Synopsis

A chorus girl gets a ride from millionaire Bruno's driver. The cash-strapped theater director thinks, she's Bruno's girlfriend and makes her the lead. She meets Bruno, thinking he's a reporter. More confusion follows.