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Happiness Ahead
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Wikipedia article
'Happiness Ahead' is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Dick Powell with Josephine Hutchinson.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=5692 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:'Happiness Ahead'] This was Hutchinson's (credited) debut.
Plot
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.
Cast
* Dick Powell as Bob Lane
* Josephine Hutchinson as Joan Bradford
* John Halliday as Henry Bradford
* Frank McHugh as Tom
* Allen Jenkins as Chuck
* Ruth Donnelly as Anna
* Dorothy Dare as Josie
* Marjorie Gateson as Mrs. Bradford
* Gavin Gordon as "Jellie" Travis
* Russell Hicks as Jim Meehan
* Mary Forbes as Mrs. Travis
* J. M. Kerrigan as The Boss
* Mary Treen as The Girl
* Mary Russell as Girl
* Jane Darwell as Landlady
* George Chandler as Window Washer (uncredited)
Reception
Andre Sennwald, critic for 'The New York Times', called it "a winning and agreeable film", though he also described it as a "rather ordinary little romance".
Preservation status
The film is preserved in the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation collection.'Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress', (<-book title) p.74 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
References
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