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Saturday Cinema: Happy Go Lucky

on BBC Two England

Starring Dick Powell, Mary Martin, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Rudy Vallee

A Brooklyn girl takes a luxury cruise to the tropics in the hope of finding a wealthy husband.
This was one of the last musical-comedy films in the career of the late Dick Powell. A year later he was to gain new recognition in the dramatic role of Raymond Chandler's famous detective Philip Marlowe in the film "Farewell My Lovely". No American musical of the period seems complete without Mary Martin, who is still at the top of the musical-comedy tree - or, indeed, Betty Hutton. And Rudy Vallee, the famous crooner and heart-throb of the 1930s, steps out of his singing shoes to play the mean-minded millionaire Alfred Monroe.

(Colour)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Walter de Leon
Screenplay:
Norman Panama
Screenplay:
Melvin Frank
Songs by:
Frank Loesser
Songs by:
Jimmy McHugh
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Pete Hamilton:
Dick Powell
Marjorie Stuart:
Mary Martin
Bubbles Hennessy:
Betty Hutton
Wally Case:
Eddie Bracken
Alfred Monroe:
Rudy Vallee
J.M. Smith:
Clem Bevans
Mrs. Smith:
Mabel Paige
Vespa:
Eric Blore

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