Happiness Ahead is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Dick Powell with Josephine Hutchinson.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 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", adding: "Mervyn LeRoy, the director of detonating screen melodramas, goes soft and sentimental in his new work without losing his grip on life. "Happiness Ahead" has a continuously warming effect and it produces a mood of benevolence and good cheer. In addition to the strawberry and heart-popping tunes, there are the title number and "Beauty Must Be Loved," which have a good uplift percentage in Dick Powell's sunny tenor. Mr. LeRoy seems to have made a lot out of a little.
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
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