LOVE HAPPY -- David Miller, dir

©1950
studio: Republic Pictures
production company: Artists Alliance
director: David Miller (Leo McCarey, uncredited)
cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Ilona Massey, Vera Ellen, Raymond Burr, Marilyn Monroe
screenplay: Harpo Marx (story "Kleptomaniacs"), Frank Tashlin (screenplay) and Mac Benoff (screenplay), Ben Hecht (uncredited)


The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls while thwarting diamond thieves. [imdb.com]



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How many people out there, who are familiar with the Marx Brothers, know of this movie? Hands, please.


I thought so.

This film hasn't received the acclaim and staus that so many of the Marx Brothers films has, and there are probably many reasons, but certainly not because it isn't any good. It's a fine film. Better than many comedies of the era. But it's not a typical Marx Brothers film. Groucho is really a leading catalyst of the Marx Brothers and here he seems almost like an extra. As narrator he is involved, but not so directly. His painted-on mustache and eyebrows are gone, and it's the Groucho that we become familiar with through YOU BET YOUR LIFE, rather than the Groucho from ANIMAL CRACKERS or DUCK SOUP.

I would still recommend this film, and it's too bad that it is so unkown.