Let's Be Happy (1957)
1h 47m
Running Time
May 7, 1957Release Date
Plot.
On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the family's Scottish roots. On the plane she meets businessman Stanley Smith, and romance blossoms in Edinburgh. The complications begin when Stanley breaks a date with Jeannie to woo voluptuous redhead Helene, and Jeannie is flattered by the attentions of the impoverished Lord McNairn; he's heard about her good fortune, and gallantly offers to show her the city.
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Cast & Crew.
Vera-Ellen
Jeannie MacLean
Tony Martin
Stanley Smith
Robert Flemyng
Lord James MacNairn
Helen Horton
Sadie Whitelaw
Zena Marshall
Helene
Henry Levin
Director
Beckett Bould
Rev. MacDonald
Andrew Mitchell
Writer
Diana Morgan
Writer
Alfred Burke
French Ticket Clerk
Dorothy Cooper
Writer
Vernon Greeves
First Air France Steward
Richard Molinas
Bearded Man
Aimée Stuart
Writer
Frederick Gotfurt
Writer
Eugene Deckers
Dining Car Attendant
Marcel Hellman
Producer
Russell Waters
Hotel Reception Clerk / Page Boy Bobby
Peter Sinclair
MacTavish
Magda Miller
Mrs. MacTavish
Brian Oulton
Hotel Valet / Mr. Fielding
Katherine Kath
Mrs. Fielding
Charles Carson
Mr. Ferguson
Jock McKay
Elderly Dancer
Eric Pohlmann
Customs Official
Carl Duering
Customs Inspector
Molly Weir
Flower Girl
Ewan Roberts
Hotel Porter
Michael Anthony
Monsieur Flor
Guy Middleton
Mr. Fielding
Paul Young
Page Boy Bobby
Gordon Jackson
Dougal McLean (uncredited)
Jean Cadell
Mrs. Cathie (uncredited)
Trevor Reid
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
André Maranne
Waiter in Dining Car (uncredited)
Louis Levy
Music Director
Robert Rietti
Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
Denis Shaw
Fat Man in Train Corridor (uncredited)
Terence Verity
Art Direction
Erwin Hillier
Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Let's Be Happy is a Technicolor 1957 British musical film starring Tony Martin, Vera-Ellen and Robert Flemyng and directed by Henry Levin. It was written by Dorothy Cooper and Diana Morgan in CinemaScope. This film was an updated remake of Jeannie (1941), starring Barbara Mullen, which itself was based on the stage play Jeannie by Aimée Stuart.The film was Vera-Ellen's final film; she later withdrew from public life after the death of her daughter, Victoria Ellen Rothschild. The film is also Tony Martin's final appearance in a movie musical, although he later made a cameo appearance in Dear Mr. Wonderful, a 1982 film.Let's Be Happy premiered in London on 9 May 1957.