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Love Happy
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| Directed by | David Miller |
| Produced by | Mary Pickford David Miller |
| Written by | Mac Benoff Frank Tashlin |
| Starring | Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Ilona Massey Vera-Ellen Marion Hutton |
| Music by | Ann Ronell |
| Cinematography | William Mellor |
| Editing by | Ann Ronell Basil Wrangell |
| Release date(s) | 3 March 1950 United Artists |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Love Happy (1950) was the 13th, and virtually the last Marx Brothers' film (they would return to the big screen in 1957 for brief, separate appearances in The Story of Mankind).
The film stars Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and, in a smaller role than usual, Groucho Marx, plus Ilona Massey, Vera-Ellen, Marion Hutton, Raymond Burr, and Eric Blore, with a memorable walk-on by a young Marilyn Monroe. It was directed by David Miller and written by Frank Tashlin and Mac Benoff and based on a story by Harpo.
The film was produced by former silent film star Mary Pickford and released by United Artists. Although shooting began in August 1948, the film was not released until 3 March 1950. The production ran out of money during shooting, so they came up with a unique form of product placement (still rare at the time): a rooftop chase around advertising billbords.
Harpo is up to his usual antics when he steals a tin of sardines and accidentally bags the Romanoff diamonds.
Groucho often said the brothers did the film to help Chico pay off gambling debts. Groucho avoided mentioning it at all in his autobiographies Groucho and Me (1959) and Memoirs of a Mangy Lover (1963), and apparently considered A Night in Casablanca their last film together. Because of the encapsulated nature of Groucho's scenes, it has been assumed his presence was an afterthought. Recent Groucho letters show that he was to have been part of the project from its earliest stages in 1946-47.
This movie is generally regarded as the worst Marx Brothers movie. The IMDb rates The Story of Mankind lower, but that movie was not specifically produced as a Marx Brothers vehicle.
The film has a musical score and lyrics by Ann Ronnell.
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- Love Happy at the Internet Movie Database
- Love Happy at the TCM Movie Database
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| Chico Marx | Harpo Marx | Groucho Marx | Gummo Marx | Zeppo Marx |
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