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Genre
  
Biography, Comedy, Music

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Archie Mayo

Music director
  
Harry Akst, Grant Clarke

Language
  
English

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Writer
  
Joseph Jackson
,
James A. Starr

Release date
  
October 19, 1929 (1929-10-19)

Screenplay
  
Jimmy Starr, Joseph Jackson

Cast
  
Ted Lewis
(Ted Todd),
Alice Day
(Gail Wilson),
Muggsy Spanier
,
Ann Pennington
(Lena Schmitt),
Lawrence Grant
(Victor Molnar)

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Is Everybody Happy? (1929) is an American Pre-Code musical film starring Ted Lewis, Alice Day, Lawrence Grant, Ann Pennington, and Julia Swayne Gordon, directed by Archie Mayo, and released by Warner Bros. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?"

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The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five-minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.

Lewis and his orchestra also appeared in a short subject called Is Everybody Happy? (1941), consisting of musical numbers cut from the Abbott and Costello feature film Hold That Ghost (1941) released by Universal Studios. Columbia Pictures released a feature-length biopic of Lewis also titled Is Everybody Happy? (1943).

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Cast

  • Ted Lewis as Ted Todd
  • Alice Day as Gail Wilson
  • Ann Pennington as Lena Schmitt
  • Lawrence Grant as Victor Molnár
  • Julia Swayne Gordon as Mrs. Molnár
  • Otto Hoffman as Landlord
  • Purnell Pratt as Stage Manager
  • Muggsy Spanier as Himself
  • Soundtrack

  • "Wouldn't It Be Wonderful?" - written by Harry Akst, Grant Clarke
  • "I'm the Medicine Man For the Blues" - written by Harry Akst, Grant Clarke
  • "Samoa" - written by Harry Akst, Grant Clarke
  • "New Orleans" - written by Harry Akst, Grant Clarke
  • "In the Land of Jazz" - written by Harry Akst, Grant Clarke
  • "Start the Band" - written by Harry Akst, Grant Clarke
  • "St. Louis Blues" - written by W. C. Handy
  • "Tiger Rag" - music by Henry Ragas (as H. W. Ragas), Nick LaRocca (as D. J. La Rocca), Larry Shields (as L. Shields), Tony Sbarbaro (as A. Sbarbaro) and Edwin B. Edwards (as E. B. Edwards); lyrics by Harry DeCosta (as Harry Da Costa)
  • References

    Is Everybody Happy? (1929 film) Wikipedia
    Is Everybody Happy (1929 film) IMDb