Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns

64 mins | Comedy | June 8, 1934

Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.

Many Happy Returns

64 mins | Comedy | June 8, 1934

Many Happy Returns
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
Producers Paramount
Original title Many Happy Returns
Directors Norman Z. McLeod
Writers J.P. McEvoy

Cast

Gracie Allen

as Gracie Allen

George Burns

as George Burns

George Barbier

as Horatio Allen

Joan Marsh

as Florence Allen

Ray Milland

as Ted Lambert

John Kelly

as Mike

William Demarest

as Brinker

Johnny Arthur

as Davis

Franklin Pangborn

as Allen's Secretary

Egon Brecher

as Dr. Otto von Strudel

Guy Lombardo

as Guy Lombardo

Jack Mulhall

as Movie Actor

Morgan Wallace

as Nathan Silas

Kenneth Thomson

as Motion Picture Director

Larry Adler

as Harmonica Player

Veloz

as Specialty Dancer

Yolanda

as Specialty Dancer

Johnny Taylor

as Tap Dancer

Clark Rutledge

as Tap Dancer

Ann Sheridan

as Chorine (uncredited)

Sidney Bracey

as Movie Butler (uncredited)

Duke Ellington

as Piano Player (uncredited)

Mary MacLaren

as Clerk (uncredited)

Syd Saylor

as Construction Worker (uncredited)

Rolfe Sedan

as Clerk (uncredited)

Kent Taylor

as Movie Actor (uncredited)