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Cry for Happy (1961)

5 | Mar 03, 1961 (US) | Romance, Comedy | 01:50
Budget: N/A | Revenue: 1 800 000

You'll cry for happy, happy, happy when four U.S. sailors take over a geisha house...geisha girls and all !

Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.

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Donald O'Connor
Murray Prince
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Miiko Taka
Chiyoko
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Michi Kobi
Harakichi
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Howard St. John
Vice Adm. Junius B. Bennett
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Joe Flynn
John McIntosh

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CinemaSerf
5 | Aug 31, 2025
Just after the end of WWII, a team of American naval photographers lodge in a Japanese geisha house. Led by Glenn Ford ("Andy") they have some light-hearted adventures as, aided by Donald O'Connor's "Price", the sailors learn a little of the culture of their hostesses and more about their tradition (i.e. they are not hookers). Simultaneously, they must try to avoid their bosses jumping to any inaccurate conclusions - even if that means pretending that they are really running an orphanage! It's a bit of a one joke film, this; O'Connor really doesn't look like he wants to be there at all and though it does have flashes of humour, I just felt they were too few and far between in this colourful and friendly, but otherwise quite sluggish, drama.