Jacques Bonnard
Search results
The Happy Time is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Robert Fontaine, which Samuel A. Taylor turned into a hit play. A boy, played by Bobby Driscoll, comes of age in a close-knit French-Canadian family.
The Happy Time: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt, Bobby Driscoll. Spring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert, who's blind to the attentions of an American neighbor girl, because he's infatuated with the beautiful new maid, fleeing life ...
- (574)
- Comedy
- Richard Fleischer
- 1952-12-03
Mar 16, 2010 · The Happy Time (1952), pt 1. Double the dose of gorgeous Frenchmen: Louis Jourdan & Charles Boyer! A coming of age story centered on a French Canadian family in Ottawa. Boyer plays Jacques...
- 7 min
- 19.7K
- Kuchlenz
The film version of The Happy Time features Louis Jourdan as a free-living, globe-trotting salesman who returns to his small hometown in Quebec in the 1920s to visit his eccentric family. His travel tales have a profound effect on his impressionable young nephew Bibi, inspiring the boy to live life to the fullest, much to the chagrin of the boy ...
- Richard Fleischer, Milton Feldman
- Charles Boyer
The Happy Time `The Happy Time'(1952) is a wonderful movie in which Bobby co-starred with Louis Jourdan and Charles Boyer, in the story of a boy growing up in an eccentric French Canadian family during the 1920's. This charming movie gets everything right.
A large French-Canadian family suddenly expands when father Jacques (Charles Boyer) invites an out-of-work magician's assistant to be their live-in maid. At the same time, charming ladies'...
- Comedy
A wonderful coming-of-age comedy about a kid on the cusp of puberty (Bobby Driscoll), the incurable romantics who comprise his French-Canadian family, and what happens when a vaudeville performer fleeing a handsy boss takes refuge in their house.
