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The Happy Family is a film of genre Comedy directed by Maclean Rogers with Hugh Williams
The Happy Family (1936)
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Add to a movie listThe Happy Family is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Hugh Williams, Leonora Corbett and Max Adrian. The film was based on the play French Salad by Max Catto.
The plot concerns a mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle, spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
^ "The Happy Family". Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
Actors
Hugh Williams
(Victor Hutt)
Leonora Corbett
(Barbara Hutt)
Max Adrian
(Noel Hutt)
Eve Gray
(Nia Harrison)
Ellen Pollock
(Leo Hutt)
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