A spoiled heiress who has jilted multiple fiancés embroils a commercial pilot in a series of wacky misadventures.A spoiled heiress who has jilted multiple fiancés embroils a commercial pilot in a series of wacky misadventures.A spoiled heiress who has jilted multiple fiancés embroils a commercial pilot in a series of wacky misadventures.
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- TriviaThe leather jacket James Stewart wore for much of the film is the same one he wore when he was flying missions during World War II.
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Dr. Blucher: It's perfect natural for a girl to have doubts before getting married. In your case, certainly it isn't surprising; after all, you've been engaged six times.
Ralph Tutwiler: [interrupting] Officially; if you want the unofficial total, you'll need an adding machine.
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You Gotta Stay Happy was produced by William Dozier who at the time was married to Joan Fontaine. I think Fontaine was trying to lighten her image a bit and decided to try this throwback comedy involving a missing runaway heiress. Very familiar territory from the Thirties, postwar audiences wanted a little more realism.
Anyway she was able to land James Stewart as her leading man and he even accepted second billing here. Well, in affect she was the boss on this set. And they got a good cast of familiar faces from past screwball comedies to help this along.
Watching this, I couldn't help thinking that Joan Fontaine was going into territory Jean Arthur knew by heart. If Arthur was the heiress, this thing might have been a classic. This picture would have been so right for Jean Arthur.
I particularly enjoyed Percy Kilbride playing Pa Kettle under a different name. He's a farmer with a tribe of kids in Oklahoma where pilot James Stewart and his animal, human, and vegetable cargo have landed. Eddie Albert as Stewart's co-pilot and sidekick is also just fine.
It's an enjoyable comedy, but it will never be in the first rank of films of either Fontaine or Stewart.
Anyway she was able to land James Stewart as her leading man and he even accepted second billing here. Well, in affect she was the boss on this set. And they got a good cast of familiar faces from past screwball comedies to help this along.
Watching this, I couldn't help thinking that Joan Fontaine was going into territory Jean Arthur knew by heart. If Arthur was the heiress, this thing might have been a classic. This picture would have been so right for Jean Arthur.
I particularly enjoyed Percy Kilbride playing Pa Kettle under a different name. He's a farmer with a tribe of kids in Oklahoma where pilot James Stewart and his animal, human, and vegetable cargo have landed. Eddie Albert as Stewart's co-pilot and sidekick is also just fine.
It's an enjoyable comedy, but it will never be in the first rank of films of either Fontaine or Stewart.
- bkoganbing
- Jul 2, 2005
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- $1,673,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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