Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
October 19, 1929Release Date
Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
October 19, 1929Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Ted Lewis
Ted Todd
Alice Day
Gail Wilson
Ann Pennington
Lena Schmitt
Lawrence Grant
Victor Molnár
Julia Swayne Gordon
Mrs. Molnár
Otto Hoffman
Landlord
Purnell Pratt
Stage Manager
Muggsy Spanier
Muggsy Spanier
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Release DateOctober 19, 1929
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 20m
Content RatingNR
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Is Everybody Happy? (1929) is an American pre-Code musical film starring Ted Lewis, Alice Day, Lawrence Grant, Ann Pennington, and Julia Swayne Gordon, directed by Archie Mayo, and released by Warner Bros. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?"
The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five-minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.Lewis and his orchestra also appeared in a short subject called Is Everybody Happy? (1941), consisting of musical numbers cut from the Abbott and Costello feature film Hold That Ghost (1941) released by Universal Studios. Columbia Pictures released a feature-length biopic of Lewis also titled Is Everybody Happy? (1943).