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Happy Days
(1929) United States of America
B&W : 80 minutes
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Cast: Charles E. Evans [Colonel Billy Batcher], Marjorie White [Margie], Richard Keene [Dick], Stuart Erwin [Jig], Martha Lee Sparks [Nancy Lee], Clifford Dempsey [Sheriff Benton], J. Farrell MacDonald [the train conductor], Tom Kennedy [the doorman], Harry Tyler [the Stage & Screen Club manager], James J. Corbett [an interlocutor of the minstrel show], George MacFarlane [an interlocutor of the minstrel show], Warner Baxter [a minstrel show performer], El Brendel [a minstrel show performer], Lew Brice [a minstrel show performer], Walter Catlett [a minstrel show performer], William Collier (Sr.) [a minstrel show performer], Edmund Lowe [a minstrel show performer], Victor McLaglen [a minstrel show performer], Tom Patricola [a minstrel show performer], George Jessel [a minstrel show performer], Frank Richardson [a minstrel show performer], Will Rogers [a minstrel show performer], David Rollins [a minstrel show performer], ‘Whispering’ Jack Smith [a minstrel show performer], Dixie Lee [the lead dancer in the “Crazy Feet” number], Frank Albertson [himself], Rex Bell [himself], Charles Farrell [himself], Janet Gaynor [herself], Lucien Littlefield [himself], J. Harold Murray [himself], George Olsen [himself], Paul Page [himself], Sam Spiegel [himself], Nick Stuart [himself], Sharon Lynn [a dancer in the “Snake Hips” number], Ann Pennington [a dancer in the “Snake Hips” number], Theresa Allen [a female chorus member], Lee Auburn [a female chorus member], Doris Baker [a female chorus member], Eileen Bannon [a female chorus member], Georgia Clarke [a female chorus member], Consuelo de los Ángeles [a female chorus member], Jean De Parva [a female chorus member], Estella Essex [a female chorus member], Gertrude Friedly [a female chorus member], Joan Gaylord [a female chorus member], Alice Goodsell [a female chorus member], Betty Gordon [a female chorus member], Kay Gordon [a female chorus member], Betty Grable [a female chorus member], Beatrice Hagen [a female chorus member], Betty Halsey [a female chorus member], Charlotte Hamill [a female chorus member], Pat Hanne [a female chorus member], Miriam Hellman [a female chorus member], Virginia Joyce [a female chorus member], Bo Peep Karlin [a female chorus member], Gwen Keate [a female chorus member], Dorothy Kirsten [a female chorus member], Margaret La Marr [a female chorus member], Mary Lansing [a female chorus member], Barbara La Velle [a female chorus member], Pear La Velle [a female chorus member], LaVerne Leonard [a female chorus member], Marjorie Levoe [a female chorus member], Joyce Lorme [a female chorus member], Helen Mann [a female chorus member], Myra Mason [a female chorus member], Vee Maule [a female chorus member], Dorothy McNames [a female chorus member], Catherine Navarro [a female chorus member], Joan Navarro [a female chorus member], Georgia Pembleton [a female chorus member], Beverly Royde [a female chorus member], Hazel Sperling [a female chorus member], Melissa Ten Eyck [a female chorus member], Marbeth Wright [a female chorus member], Glen Alden [a male chorus member], Clarence Brown Jr. [a male chorus member], Enrico Cuccinelli [a male chorus member], Peter Custulovich [a male chorus member], Ralph Demaree [a male chorus member], Jack Frost [a male chorus member], Leo Hanley [a male chorus member], William Hargrave [a male chorus member], Fran Heller [a male chorus member], Joe Holland [a male chorus member], Phil Kolar [a male chorus member], Marius Langan [a male chorus member], Harry Lauder [a male chorus member], John Lockhart (John Lockert) [a male chorus member], Ming MacMurray [a male chorus member], Bob McKee (Bob Reel McKee) [a male chorus member], Frank McKee [a male chorus member], Kenneth Nordyke [a male chorus member], J. Harold Reeves [a male chorus member], Randall Reynolds [a male chorus member], Ed Rockwell [a male chorus member], Roy Rockwood [a male chorus member], George Scheller [a male chorus member], Carter Sexton [a male chorus member], Ted Smith [a male chorus member], Douglas Steade [a male chorus member], Thomas Vartian [a male chorus member], Ted Waters [a male chorus member], John Westerfelt [a male chorus member]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Produced by William Fox. Screenplay by Edwin J. Burke and Sidney Lanfield, from a screen story by Edwin J. Burke and Sidney Lanfield. Songs “Crazy Feet” by Con Conrad, Sidney D. Mitchell and Archie Gottler (music and lyrics); “Dream on a Piece of Wedding Cake” by James F. Hanley (music) and James Brockman (lyrics); “Happy Days” by James F. Hanley (music) and Joseph McCarthy (lyrics); “I’m on a Diet of Love” by Abel Baer (music) and L. Wolfe Gilbert (lyrics); “Minstrel Memories” by Abel Baer (music) and L. Wolfe Gilbert (lyrics); “Mona” by Con Conrad, Sidney D. Mitchell and Archie Gottler (music and lyrics); “Snake Hips” by Con Conrad, Sidney D. Mitchell and Archie Gottler (music and lyrics); “A Toast to the Girl I Love” by James F. Hanley (music) and James Brockman (lyrics); “Vic and Eddie” by Harry Stoddard and Marcy Klauber (music and lyrics); “We’ll Build a Little World of Our Own” by James F. Hanley (music) and James Brockman (lyrics). Costume design by Sophie Wachner. Wardrobe by Sam Benson. Set design by Jack Schulze (John DuCasse Schulze). Choreography by Earl Lindsay. Staging by Walter Catlett. Assistant directors, Michael Farley, Ad Schaumer and John Schmitz. Grandeur cinematography by J.O. Taylor. Standard cinematography by Lucien N. Andriot and John Schmitz. Sound engineer, Samuel Waite. Film editor, Clyde Carruth. Presented by William Fox. / Grandeur premiere 17 September 1929 at the Roxy Theatre in New York, New York. [?] General release?, 13 February 1930. / Grandeur 70mm anamorphic 2.00:1 format (Grandeur release prints) and Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (standard sound prints). Western Electric Movietone synchronized sound film system. / Full-sound film.
Drama: Musical.
Survival status: Print exists [35mm version].
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Listing updated: 31 July 2025.
References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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