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Happiness Ahead

  • 1934
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  • 1h 26min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.6/10
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Josephine Hutchinson and Dick Powell in Happiness Ahead (1934)
ComediaMusicalRomance

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaSociety heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.

  • Dirección
    • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Guionistas
    • Harry Sauber
    • Brian Marlow
  • Elenco
    • Dick Powell
    • Josephine Hutchinson
    • John Halliday
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.6/10
    326
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    • Dirección
      • Mervyn LeRoy
    • Guionistas
      • Harry Sauber
      • Brian Marlow
    • Elenco
      • Dick Powell
      • Josephine Hutchinson
      • John Halliday
    • 12Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 6Opiniones de los críticos
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    • Premios
      • 2 premios ganados en total

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    Dick Powell
    Dick Powell
    • Bob Lane
    Josephine Hutchinson
    Josephine Hutchinson
    • Joan Bradford
    John Halliday
    John Halliday
    • Henry Bradford
    Frank McHugh
    Frank McHugh
    • Tom
    Allen Jenkins
    Allen Jenkins
    • Chuck
    Ruth Donnelly
    Ruth Donnelly
    • Anna
    Dorothy Dare
    Dorothy Dare
    • Josie
    Marjorie Gateson
    Marjorie Gateson
    • Mrs. Bradford
    Gavin Gordon
    Gavin Gordon
    • 'Jellie' Travis
    Russell Hicks
    Russell Hicks
    • Jim Meehan
    Mary Forbes
    Mary Forbes
    • Mrs. Travis
    J.M. Kerrigan
    J.M. Kerrigan
    • Window Washer Boss
    Mary Treen
    Mary Treen
    • Bob's Comedienne Friend
    Mary Russell
    Mary Russell
    • Bob's Friend at the Pekin
    Jane Darwell
    Jane Darwell
    • Mrs. Davis - the Landlady
    Arthur Aylesworth
    Arthur Aylesworth
    • Daily Gazette Newspaper Editor in Trailer
    • (sin créditos)
    James Burke
    James Burke
    • Policeman
    • (sin créditos)
    George Chandler
    George Chandler
    • Window Washer
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Mervyn LeRoy
    • Guionistas
      • Harry Sauber
      • Brian Marlow
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    7bkoganbing

    "So Dream On For Love Is Bound To See Us Through"

    Not only did Dick Powell get a hit film from Warner Brothers with Happiness Ahead, but he got a radio theme song as long as he was concentrating on musicals.

    Breaking tradition somewhat, the film opens with Powell singing the title song Happiness Ahead. For the next several years until Powell was doing the dramatic parts he wanted, the song Happiness Ahead served as his theme song in the same way that Where The Blue Of The Night was Bing Crosby's theme. But the film didn't end here.

    Happiness Ahead is a typical Depression Era film with either a poor shop girl falling for some young millionaire playboy or in this case the other way around. Josephine Hutchinson plays the young débutante who is bored to tears with her society peers and goes out with maid Ruth Donnelly and chauffeur Allen Jenkins one night. At a night club she meets Dick Powell who charms her with a couple of other songs Beauty Must Be Loved and Pop Goes Your Heart.

    He's a dispatcher for a window washing company and looking to form a company of his own with pal Frank McHugh. Powell doesn't know about Josephine's big bucks and she wants to keep it that way for the moment, but maybe help him on the sly.

    Of course this leads to all kinds of complications, business and romantic, but in true Hollywood style it all gets resolved in the end.

    One role I found especially interesting is that of Russell Hicks who plays a grafting politician who has the necessary contacts to get Powell the jobs he needs. We pay him off first before anything else happens. It was an extremely true and insightful role coming from a film that the workingman's studio of Warner Brothers made.

    John Halliday also has a good part as Hutchinson's father. He made it the hard way himself and secretly appreciates what Josephine wants in a man.

    So if you like Dick Powell the singer as well as Dick Powell the hardboiled noir star, Happiness Ahead will make you very happy indeed.
    10rbaumann328

    Charming movie with a few songs

    I would not go so far as to call this a musical, although some might because Dick Powell does do some singing in it. To my way of thinking a musical is simply where the music dominates the telling of a story. That is not so in this case. It is a romantic comedy with a song or two in it. It has the old fashioned boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy marries girl theme in it. The concept of s-e-x is 1934 style, with the two parties barely able to kiss one another until deep in the relationship. If you don't need special effects to tell a story, then you will like this one. The actors all speak like stage trained personnel with emphatic speech typical of the period. Many fine character actors in the cast including Frank McHugh and Allan Jenkins. It is just a classical and entertaining film comedy the way America used to do it. I loved it.
    7ksf-2

    cute little love story

    In every episode of Three's Company, someone tells a fib, it snowballs into bigger problems, and it's all finally resolved in the end. There's the plot of Happiness Ahead, from First National. Rich girl Joan (Jo Hutchinson) doesn't want to marry her assigned boyfriend, so she goes to great lengths to chase blue collar worker "Bob" (Dick Powell) who opens the film by singing "Happiness Ahead". The nasal Allen Jenkins is in here as the butler... we usually see him playing the wisecracking gangsters. Frank McHugh is in here as Tom, for comedy relief. And Jane Darwell (Ma Joad !) is the landlady that clues Bob in to what's going on. Cute little film. Fun little love story. Nothing that will tax the brain... I could have done with less singing numbers, but that's what everyone was doing in those days. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, who was six when the big quake hit san francisco. Quite an interesting tale.
    7AlsExGal

    A departure from most of Dick Powell's musical films

    This is one of those films so popular in the 1930's in which a rich person, either intentionally or through coincidence, is mistaken for a person of modest means. As a result of this, the rich person ends up falling in love with a person of actual modest means.

    In this case Joan Bradford (Josephine Hutchinson) is a wealthy heiress who is expected to marry a wealthy heir in a manner that resembles a corporate merger more than a romance. On the night that the engagement is to be announced she escapes her parents' mansion and begins walking along the streets of New York City. She goes into a night spot where she meets a group of young people, one of whom is window washing dispatcher Bob Lane (Dick Powell). Bob offers Joan a ride home at the evening's end, and she accepts. She doesn't want Bob to know she is wealthy, so she picks a random boarding house and tells him to drop her off.

    Now the problems of the deception begin. Joan has given Bob a fake name - Joan Smith - and Bob is expecting to pick her up for a date in a few days at an address where she does not live. So Joan rents a place there and furnishes it, only showing up on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays right before her dates with Bob, and going back to her real home after he drops her off. She manages to fend off her mother's questions with the help of her sympathetic father (Jack Halliday). However, Joan soon finds she is in love with Bob, and with him talking about the two of them having a future together, she must face how to let him know who she really is without him feel betrayed.

    This film is a bit of a departure for Dick Powell's musical films. He is not playing someone with musical abilities who is itching to be discovered. There are no big musical numbers in the film, just Powell singing a few catchy songs. This is a very fun film if you like the Warner Brothers musical comedies from the 1930's.
    7planktonrules

    A pleasant little romance with a bit too much singing for my taste.

    During the 1930s, Dick Powell played a lot of similar roles--the fresh-faced young man who sings some very high-pitched but pleasant songs. The public adored it...and Powell hated it and wanted meatier, tougher roles. In my opinion, he was right and his tough- guy roles are my favorites. As for the guy he plays in "Happiness Ahead", it's pretty much the typical 30s Powell film.

    Joan (Josephine Hutchinson) is a rich, pampered society girl. However, she's vaguely dissatisfied about this and longs for fun in her life...something sorely lacking at her boring high-brow parties. So, she decides to slum it and goes on on New Years Eve to see how the normal folks live and celebrate. There she meets nice-guy, Bob (Powell) and they soon start dating. She's very happy but he has no idea she's loaded.

    This plot is awfully familiar in the 1930s. You would have thought that films would have avoided the whole bored rich girl angle--after all, it WAS the Depression and many folks were just happy to get enough to eat! But despite this, films like "Five and Ten" and "Poor Little Rich Girl" and this one were pretty common. This isn't necessarily a complaint but does mean that the film isn't exactly original.

    So is it any good? Well, most of the songs were pretty forgettable but I liked the one Powell and Frank McHugh sang as they washed windows as well as the weird number in the bizarre Chinese restaurant/night club near the beginning of the picture. I personally just hoped they'd end soon so they could get back to the romance--which was rather cute and enjoyable. Deep? No way...but cute.

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    • Trivia
      According to the Hollywood Reporter's April 22, 1935 issue the Acme Window Cleaning Co. sued Warner Brothers for the use of the names Acme Window Cleaning Co. and Peerless Window Cleaning Co. Because the Acme company in the film was portrayed as unscrupulous, the real Acme Co. asked $100,000 in damages. The outcome of the suit has not been determined.
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      Bob Lane: [angrily to Joan as he leaves] You know, I'm pretty good about that cheating business myself! And all that junk I fed you about being in love with ya was just a lot of conversation! Give me a buzz if you want some windows washed! I'm goin' into business! You know, you may not look so bad from the outside!

    • Créditos curiosos
      Quite unusually for this era, there's a short pre-credit sequence: a complete refrain of the title song is sung before the main title card is shown. The First National logo zooms toward us out of clouds (just as the WB logo more familiarly does) then Dick Powell is superimposed over the same clouds singing "Happiness Ahead" directly to us.
    • Conexiones
      Remade as Here Comes Happiness (1941)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Beauty Must Be Loved
      (1934) (uncredited)

      Music by Sammy Fain

      Lyrics by Irving Kahal

      Played on piano and sung by Dick Powell

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 27 de octubre de 1934 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Bob Hope Airport, Burbank, California, Estados Unidos(Airport - exterior view)
    • Productora
      • First National Pictures
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      1 hora 26 minutos
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      • 1.37 : 1

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