Many Happy Returns (1934 film) explained

Many Happy Returns
Director:Norman Z. McLeod
Music:Arthur Johnston (uncredited)
Cinematography:Henry Sharp
Editing:Richard C. Currier
Studio:Paramount Pictures
Runtime:64 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English

Many Happy Returns is a 1934 American pre-Code Paramount Pictures comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Gracie Allen, George Burns and George Barbier.[1]

Cast

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Mordaunt Hall wrote: "[The film] depends chiefly on Gracie Allen and George Burns for its mirth. It is one of those impossible features where almost anything is likely to happen. Given the slightest excuse, orchestral and other music is played. .... The activities in this film in going from Gotham to Hollywood appear to have been a little too much for both Miss Allen and Mr. Burns, for they seem to have run out of really funny lines."[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Many Happy Returns . TCM. 8 July 2014.
  2. News: Hall . Mordaunt . 1934-06-09 . The Screen: Burns and Allen . . 18.