Love Happy (1949)


Love Happy
Release Date12 October 1949
TaglineNew Musical Girlesque!!!
GenreComedy, Crime, Musical
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorBlack and White
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassAbsurd Comedy
ThemesJewel Theft, Actor's Life, Private Eyes
TonesGoofy, Humorous, Talky, Silly, Witty
TagsActor, Diamond, Musician, Private Detective, Shoplifting, Show

Love Happy (1949) was the 14th (including Humor Risk), and virtually the last, Marx Brothers movie (they would return to the big screen in 1957 for brief, separate appearances in The Story of Mankind).


Cast and Crew


Cast

Harpo

Faustino

Madame Egelichi

Maggie Phillips - Dancer

Bunny Dolan - Maggie's Best Friend

Alphonse Zoto

Throckmorton

Paul Valentine
Mike Johnson - Dancer

Mr. Lyons

Mackinaw

Hannibal Zoto

Grunion's Client

Detective Sam Grunion, narrator of the story

Eddie Borden
Man at Stage Door

Sayre Dearing
Street Extra

Cop who captures Harpo

Young woman

Alvin Hammer
Call Boy

Clergyman in Sadie Thompson number

Constance Purdy
Woman with Chihuahua Dog

Otto Waldis
Ivan, Assassin in Grunion's office

Director

Writer

Frank Tashlin

Mac Benoff

uncredited

Producer

Lester Cowan
producer

producer

Original Music

Ann Ronell
-

Cinematographer

William C. Mellor

Editor

Albrecht Joseph

Basil Wrangell
-

Production Designer

Gabriel Scognamillo
-

Art Director

Gabriel Scognamillo
-

Set Decorator

Casey Roberts
-

Makeup Department

Fred B. Phillips
makeup artist

Scotty Rackin
hair stylist

Production Manager

Ray Heinz
production manager

Special Effects

Howard A. Anderson
photographic effects

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Richard Bachler
wardrobe: men

Grace Houston
wardrobe designer

Norma Koch
wardrobe designer

Music Department

Harry Geller
orchestral arrangements

Paul J. Smith
musical director, conductor

Other Crew

Billy Daniel
production number stager

William Chaiken
production assistant

Production Company

Artists Alliance
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Distributor

United Artists

Paramount Home Video

Kinowelt Home Entertainment

Republic Pictures






Navigation Boxes
The Marx Brothers
At the Circus (1939)
Duck Soup (1933)
Go West (1940)
Humor Risk (1921)
Love Happy
Room Service (1938)
The Big Store (1941)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
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Diane (1956)
Drunk Driving (1939)
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