Happiness is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls-Royce is an American play. It ran for 4 previews and one performance.Playbill for 1968 production accessed 15 June 2013 It was written by Arthur Alsberg and Robert Fisher who had worked together in television.
The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway. Goldman commented that the play:
Had all the time-proven materials of the sex-comedy genre, and I think that if the time were 40 years ago, it might have had an enormous success. The dedicated: young painter, a girl on her own: that was an exciting twenties notion. And the fact that this wacky but honest girl put out; well, you’ve got something there. That would have been good for a season’s run 40 years ago. But the by-now paralyzing familiarity, I think, killed it. Plus the fact that the basic notion—a man buys a Rolls-Royce—is kind of limited.
Premise A young lawyer buys a Rolls Royce for his pushy wife. In the back is a young female artist.
Cast of Broadway run Lee Bergere as Phil Gorshin Alexandra Berlin as Andrea Clithero Hildy Brooks as Myra Bagley Phoebe Dorin as Karen Kinsey Ray Fulmer as Jerry Ramsey Pat Harrington as Walter Bagley Marvin Lichterman as Chuck Kinsey John McGiver as Andrew McIntire Shimen Ruskin as Sanford Rutchik
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