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The Happy Family (1936 film)

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| director = Maclean Rogers

| producer = Herbert Smith

| screenplay = Maclean Rogers

| story = Max Catto

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| starring = Hugh Williams
Leonora Corbett

| music =

| cinematography = George Stretton

| editing =

| studio = British Lion Film Corporation

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| runtime = 67 minutes

| country = Great Britain

| language = English

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'The Happy Family' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Hugh Williams, Leonora Corbett and Max Adrian. The film was based on the play 'French Salad' by Max Catto.

The plot concerns a mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle, spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.

Cast



* Hugh Williams - Victor Hutt

* Leonora Corbett - Barbara Hutt

* Max Adrian - Noel Hutt

* Maidie Hope - Mrs Hutt

* Eve Gray - Nia Harrison

* Ellen Pollock - Leo Hutt

* Glennis Lorimer - Robina Hutt

* D. A. Clarke-Smith - Mr Harrison

* Dick Francis - Mr Hutt

* Muriel George - Housekeeper

References





Bibliography



* Shafer, Stephen C. 'British popular films, 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance'. Routledge, 1997.


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