The Happy Time
1952 film by Richard Fleischer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a film. For the Broadway musical, see The Happy Time (musical).
The Happy Time is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by the award-winning director Richard Fleischer, based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Robert Fontaine, which Samuel A. Taylor turned into a hit play. A boy, played by Bobby Driscoll, comes of age in a close-knit French-Canadian family. The film stars Charles Boyer and Louis Jourdan as his father and uncle respectively. The play was also adapted into a musical in 1967 by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb, and librettist N. Richard Nash, and starred Robert Goulet.
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Directed by | Richard Fleischer |
Screenplay by | Earl Felton |
Based on | Samuel A. Taylor (based on the Play by) Robert Fontaine (And the Book by) |
Produced by | Earl Felton |
Starring | Charles Boyer Louis Jourdan |
Cinematography | Charles Lawton Jr. |
Edited by | William A. Lyon |
Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
Production company | Stanley Kramer Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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