Here Comes Happiness (1941)
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The brazen audaciousness with which Bryan Foy's B-picture unit at Warner Bros. remade the studio's old properties was seldom more pronounced than in 1941's Here Comes Happiness, a thinly disguised reworking of 1934's Happiness Ahead! The original starred Dick Powell and Josephine… More The brazen audaciousness with which Bryan Foy's B-picture unit at Warner Bros. remade the studio's old properties was seldom more pronounced than in 1941's Here Comes Happiness, a thinly disguised reworking of 1934's Happiness Ahead! The original starred Dick Powell and Josephine Hutchinson; the remake casts Edward Norris as ambitious sandhog Chet Madden and Mildred Coles as poor little rich girl Jessica Vance. Tired of having her every move dictated by her wealthy mother (Marjorie Gateson), Jessica rebels altogether when mama personally selects the girl's future husband. Our heroine escapes to the tenements, assumes a phony name, and falls in love with Chet, who has grandiose plans about his own future. Secretly financing Chet's pet projects, Jessica loses him when he finds out her true identity and disdainfully gives back her money. It's up to Jessica's foxy papa (Russell Hicks), who admires Chet's inborn business acumen, to bring the lovers back together. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Noel M. Smith
- Genres
- Romance, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 15, 1941 Wide
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Cast
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Mildred Coles
as Jessica Vance
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Edward Norris
as Chet Madden
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Richard Ainley
as Jelliffe Blaine
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Russell Hicks
as John Vance
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Marjorie Gateson
as Emily Vance
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John Ridgely
as Jim
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Eddie Acuff
as Bill
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Lucia Carroll
as Peg
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Helen Lynd
as Flo
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Marie Blake
as Clara
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Edward Gargan
as Joe
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Vera Lewis
as Mrs. James
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Joseph Crehan
as Tom Burke
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Ann Edmonds
as Miss Harnes
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William Hopper
as Best Man
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Alexis Smith
as Bit Part
