She also demonstrates her terrific talents in a number of dancing scenes. Tcm messageboards post your comments here add your comment share. Bruce humberstone and starring veraellen, david niven, and cesar romero. Singin and dancing back in time happy go lovely 1951. With dirk bogarde, sylva koscina, robert morley, leo mckern. The film was made and first released in the uk, and distributed in the us by rko radio pictures in 1952. Happy go lovely 1951 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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The scenes are sumptuous, the technicolor good, the dialogue. Overview full credits full synopsis notes music screenplay info. With david niven, veraellen, cesar romero, bobby howes. Happy go lovely 1951 musical comedy film david niven, vera. Happy go lovely is a musical comedy with romantic elements. American producer jack frost, begs his creditors to give him a couple more days to come up with the money that he owes them. The chauffeur hugh dempster for the richest man in. See more ideas about churchill quotes, grow up people and no time for me.
An american troupe visiting edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting backers. Bruce humberstone and starring veraellen, david niven, and cesar. However, in the case of happy go lovely, the film really worked well and was a lovely comedy but every time they had dance numbers, the tempo of the film slowed to a crawl. Veraellen, considered the greatest female dancer of her generation and the best dancer to have been employed at mgm plays janet jones, a young corps dancer in a new musical called frolics to you. Bruce humberstone, david niven, veraellen, cesar romero august 1, 2018 b. Happy go lovely 1951 stream and watch online moviefone.
Despite the complications the characters in the film encounter, happy go lovely is a straight forward, sweet, and merry musical, although not regarded as one of the best films david niven starred in. Veraellen, considered the greatest female dancer of her generation and the best dancer to have been employed at mgm plays janet jones, a. Veraellen stars as dancer janet jones, who is awarded the leading role in a broadway musical because the shows producer cesar romero wants to get his hands on janets boyfriends david niven. Happy go lovely is a moderately entertaining britishmade musical that falls short of being first rate. Bruno, falls for a beautiful leading lady, janet jones, in a traveling troupe. Notes about happy go lovely, 1951, directed by bruce humberstone, with david niven, veraellen, cesar romero, available from turner classic movies. Happy go lovely 1951 the chauffeur hugh dempster for the richest man in scotland, greeting card manufacturer b. View a list of all the feature films sorted by popularity. I was a male war bride 1950, ww2, full movie, romance, english free movies in full length duration. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greetingcard company in scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. Happy go lovely premiered in june 1951 in london and made its way to the us a month later. Happy go lovely 1951 imdb vera ellen, cesar romero. The chauffeur hugh dempster for the richest man in scotland, greeting card manufacturer b. Full marks to roan group archival entertainment for this gorgeous print of happy go lovely.
It starts with a clash of cultures, and it ends with a one word response that tells the heroine with whom she is in love. Bruno david niven, drops by an edinburgh theater to return the lost purse of. What keeps it in the second tier is the confinement of musical talent to female lead veraellen. The film follows a man who is a driver for the richest man in scotland. Maybe not veraellens best ever film but she looks fabulous it was made before she became very thin. Released 1951, happy go lovely stars veraellen, david niven, cesar romero, bobby howes the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 37 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic, which. The colours are lovely and both sound are vision are crisp. Happy go lovely proves that engaging musicals need not be an american monopoly. He returns to a theater to return a lost purse to a woman. The chemistry between him and veraellen is warm and genuine. The story revolves around a misunderstanding involving a scottish millionaire david niven and a young american dancer veraellen who hitches a ride in his limousine. Happy go lovely marked the first time that prominent scottish character actor gordon.
Oddly enough, the version of the movie shown in the uk was ten minutes longer than the american one. See the full list of happy go lovely cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. I understand that musicals and dancing were very popular back in the day. Read the full synopsis of happy go lovely, 1951, directed by bruce humberstone, with david niven, veraellen, cesar romero, at turner classic movies. This is not to knock the leading lady, for she gives the part her all and is quite winning an actress and a.
Free download of the old movie from 1951, happy go lovely. To get closer to the woman, bruno impersonates a newspaper reporter as a ploy to get to know the beautiful jones. Starring david niven, veraellen, bobby howes, gordon jackson and sandra. Happy go lovely is a 1951 british musical comedy film in technicolor, directed by h.
Bruno david niven, drops by an edinburgh theater to return the lost purse of chorus girl janet jones veraellen. When the rich mans rival cast the lady in his upcoming show, the wealthy man poses as a reporter to find out. Happy go lovely 1951 happy go lovely 1951, the first musical film made in britain following world war ii, was an angloamerican production set at a film festival in edinburgh, scotland. Read this faq about determining if something is pd.