Hi, Beautiful
Cast & Crew
Leslie Goodwins
Martha O'driscoll
Noah Beery Jr.
Hattie Mcdaniel
Walter Catlett
Tim Ryan
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Patty Callahan's routine life as the caretaker of a model home is disrupted when she discovers private Jeff Peters of the U.S. Army sleeping in the model's master bedroom. Jeff, unable to find a hotel room for his furlough, decides to move into the model, much to the chagrin of Patty and her maid, Millie. After Jeff rescues Patty from the amorous attentions of Babcock, her boss, Patty agrees to spend her Saturday afternoon with the soldier. When their bus driver quits in a dispute with another passenger, Patty takes the wheel and drives the bus to a nearby beach amusement park. Later, Patty and Jeff learn about a radio contest for which a $5,000 grand prize is being offered for the photograph of "the happiest G.I. couple." While Jeff wants to enter the contest, Patty feels that it would cheapen their relationship. Millie, however, is unaware of Patty's sentiments and sends in a photograph of the couple. Jeff and Patty's photograph wins the contest, but the sponsors are given the mistaken impression that the couple is married. Feeling that she has been betrayed by Jeff, Patty orders him to leave, which he does before Millie has a chance to explain matters. As radio sponsor Gerald Bisbee has telephoned to announce that he and his wife plan to deliver the $5,000 check to the "happy" couple that night, Millie scrambles to reunite the couple. First, Millie finds Jeff at the local U.S.O. and tells him the truth, including the fact that she sent a note along with the photograph stating that Jeff and Patty have three children and a dog. Jeff then returns to the model home and convinces Patty to pretend to be his wife for a visiting "couple." With the help of some neighborhood children, Jeff and Patty successfully continue the charade for the Bisbees, until Babcock arrives and exposes them. Afraid of adverse publicity, Bisbee agrees to give the couple the prize money, and Babcock agrees to sell them the model home if they are married by the next day. Millie then tells Patty the truth about sending in the photograph, after which Jeff proposes marriage and Patty accepts.
Director
Leslie Goodwins
Cast
Martha O'driscoll
Noah Beery Jr.
Hattie Mcdaniel
Walter Catlett
Tim Ryan
Florence Lake
Grady Sutton
Lou Lubin
Virginia Sale
Tom Dugan
Dick Elliott
James Dodd
Barbara Perry
Ida Moore
Jimmy Aubrey
Lester Dorr
Charles Hall
Julie Gibson
Gerald Perreau
Ruth Lee
Edna May Wonacott
Gladys Blake
Jack Rice
Herbert Rawlinson
Forbes Murray
John Hamilton
Gerald Hamer
Alec Harford
Max Wagner
Fred Steele
Tom Brown
Patsy Patterson
Eva Lee Kuney
Bea Roberts
Arlene Harris
Alice Draper
Charles Sherlock
Crew
Harold Adamson
Dorothy Allen
Bernard B. Brown
Nacio Herb Brown
Edward Curtiss
Harry Decosta
Edward Dodds
Arthur Freed
Cliff Friend
Victor A. Gangelin
Russell A. Gausman
Alexander Golitzen
John B. Goodman
Eleanore Griffin
Dick Irving Hyland
Dick Irving Hyland
Paul Ivano
Stacy Keach
John P. Long
Jimmy Mchugh
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Robert Pritchard
William Rankin
H. J. Salter
Frank Skinner
Al Stillman
Charles Tobias
Seward Webb
Vera West
Allie Wrubel
Film Details
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Notes
The working title of this film was Be It Ever So Humble. According to the opening onscreen credits, the title of Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin's original story was "Be It Ever So Humble." Universal previously filmed Griffin and Rankin's original story in 1937 as Love in a Bungalow, starring Nan Grey and Kent Taylor and directed by Raymond B. McCarey (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.2598).
