Happiness Ahead (1934)
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Josephine Hutchinson is a beautiful heiress bored by her stifling lifestyle. She bolts her family mansion on New Years' Eve and heads for a boisterous nightclub, where she meets blue-collar worker Dick Powell. Hutchinson pretends to be poor, and soon she and Powell are pitching woo. Powell has ambitions to go into business for himself, so Josephine secretly pulls strings to help him get ahead. But when Powell finds out, he renounces the girl and breaks up the relationship. Hutchinson returns to a loveless engagement with a society type, but her father has grown fond of Powell and arranges a reconciliation. Happiness Ahead isn't exactly a musical, though Dick Powell does sing the title song during the opening credits and later introduces the Warner Bros. cartoon perennial "Pop Goes Your Heart." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Dick Powell - Bob Lane
- Josephine Hutchinson - Jean Bradford
- Dorothy Dare - Josie
- Ruth Donnelly - Anna
- Russell Hicks - Meehan
- J.M. Kerrigan - Boss of Window Washers
- Gavin Gordon - Travis
- Jane Darwell
- Frank McHugh - Tom Bradley
- John Halliday - Henry Bradford
- Allen Jenkins - Chuck
- Marjorie Gateson - Mrs. Bradford
- Mary Treen - Comedienne
- Mary Russell - Girl
- Mary Forbes - Mrs. Travis
- Director(s):
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Writer(s):
- Brian Marlow, Harry Sauber
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