The Happy Time

The Happy Time (1952)

"Eet ees magnifique". And it's all about the birds and the bees...and a lot of delightful people.

A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.

Date of release
1952-10-30
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Richard Fleischer

Casting

Interesting facts

The Happy Time is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charles Boyer and Louis Jourdan.

Production

Richard Fleischer had previously worked with Stanley Kramer and Carl Foreman on So This Is New York (1948). They borrowed Fleischer from RKO Radio Pictures after he completed reshoots on His Kind of Woman (1951). Fleischer brought his regular writer, Earl Felton, to the project.

Fleischer later said that Kurt Kasznar wanted too much money to reprise his Broadway performance, so he and Kramer cast Zero Mostel instead. However, when Harry Cohn became aware of the casting, he overruled them, as Mostel was suspected of communist sympathies.

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