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As Long as They're Happy is a 1955 British musical comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Jack Buchanan, Susan Stephen and Diana Dors. [1] It is based on the 1953 play of the same name by Vernon Sylvaine.
As Long as They're Happy: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott, Jeannie Carson, Brenda de Banzie. A stockbroker's youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home.
A stockbroker's youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Her two sisters and their oddball husb...
Plot. Showing all 3 items. Jump to: Summaries (3) A US singer, who is known as the "Crying Crooner", stays with a stockbroker's family by mistake when he comes to England, creating havoc and infatuation among the female family members and even the maid, who faints whenever he sings.
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them.
David Hurst, as a cartoonish German shrink studying the effects of a teen heartthrob on the bourgeoisie, is just unforgivably bad. It's not all his fault: J. Lee Thompson, as he did years later with "What a Way to Go!", overemphasizes everything and hammers the comedy into the ground.
Not quite a full-fledged musical, As Long as They're Happy can be described as a romantic comedy with song-and-dance interludes. Adapted from the London stage hit of the same name, the film stars Jack Buchanan as stockbroker John Bentley, whose household is thrown into a tizzy when popular singing star Bobby Denver (Jerry Wayne) visits his home.
