Love Happy

1949

Action / Comedy / Crime / Music

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 34% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 34% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 3282 3.3K

marx brothers musical broadway

Plot summary

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

Director

David Miller Photo
David Miller

Top cast

Vera-Ellen Photo
Vera-Ellen as Maggie Phillips
Ilona Massey Photo
Ilona Massey as Madame Egelichi
Tommy Ladd Photo
Tommy Ladd as Dancer
Marilyn Monroe Photo
Marilyn Monroe as Grunion's Client
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715.54 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 1
1.34 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Quinoa1984 6 / 10

Marx brothers, Raymond Burr, and... Marilyn Monroe. And it's *not* great

Love Happy is the final movie that features the three Marx brothers (Groucho Chico Harpo) in top billing and as the stars. Once again they do the occasional musical performances. This time Frank Tashlin co-writes the script (bringing, I'd imagine, some pure cartoonish brilliance to it, in fits and starts). And it's OK... ish. Actually Harpo is better than OK, but when isn't he? This isn't even his premier work and he's delightful to watch in scenes that should be rote like when the actress asks Harpo to be his manager and he mimes becoming a "big shot" with his feet up on a can of rubbish in a park, miming as well being on the phone with many agents. It's what he was made for as a performer, moments like this.The main problem for me is a major lack of the brothers interacting with one another - Groucho barely appears in the first half for Pete's sake, and only through limited 4th wall breaks - yet there are a lot of legitimately entertaining musical numbers (really, there isn't a dull one, including a number where a woman sings about being frustrated with motherhood). There's once again another loony but half-baked crime plot, here involving stolen diamonds in a can of... sardines I think, Chico on piano, and a musical that is on thin ice as far as being produced. Objectively this isn't as good a movie as I'm rating it, but I'm being generous because when these guys do click in their scenes they are just that funny. In other words it's better than Room Service (oddly enough this has the storyline that it's closest to), but not by much.It's also uncanny seeing Groucho without his grease-paint mustache as a movie character with the brothers.
Reviewed by amorpak 7 / 10

The Marx Brothers may seem stale, but Vera-Ellen sparkles...

The Marx brothers shtik is on its last legs in this one. Some production trivia mentioned in the Turner Classic Movies airing suggest that 'Love Happy' was intended to be a Harpo vehicle, but the backers weren't going to unless Groucho and Chico were also in. A lot of the Marx vaudeville formula is evident and may seem a bit worn, but Harpo still gets me with his crazy mime and charades. He has a scene with Chico that is pretty comical. The REAL gem in 'Love Happy' is Vera-Ellen's Sadie Thompson dance number. Man, that chic could really move it on high-heels. Wow!
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