| Happiness Ahead | |
| Director: | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Producer: | First National Pictures |
| Starring: | Dick Powell Josephine Hutchinson |
| Cinematography: | Tony Gaudio |
| Editing: | William Clemens |
| Distributor: | Warner Bros. |
| Runtime: | 86 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Happiness Ahead is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Dick Powell with Josephine Hutchinson.[1] This was Hutchinson's (credited) debut.[2]
Joan Bradford is a society heiress who rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working-class girl and dating a window washer.
Andre Sennwald, critic for The New York Times, called it "a winning and agreeable film", adding: "Mervyn LeRoy, the director of detonating screen melodramas, goes soft and sentimental in his new work without losing his grip on life. "Happiness Ahead" has a continuously warming effect and it produces a mood of benevolence and good cheer. In addition to the strawberry and heart-popping tunes, there are the title number and "Beauty Must Be Loved," which have a good uplift percentage in Dick Powell's sunny tenor. Mr. LeRoy seems to have made a lot out of a little.[2]
The film is preserved in the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation collection.[3]