Happiness Ahead

Affluent Joan (Josephine Hutchinson) gone rogue on New Years’ to a faux-Chinese club (forsaking parents John Hallyday and Marjorie Gateson), feigns waiting for a friend until midnight, when she meets Dick Powell (as “Bob”) with Dorothy Dare, Frank McHugh et al, in Happiness Ahead, 1934.

Director Mervyn LeRoy leaps in with leading man Dick Powell and the title tune by Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal, then the always handy First National/Warner Bros. style character credits, and a clever segue to Olaf Hytten as the butler, Ruth Donnelly a maid and Allen Jenkins the chauffeur, in Happiness Ahead, 1934.

Heiress Josephine Hutchinson falls for singing window washer Dick Powell and soon there's Happiness Ahead (1934).