It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Happy Go Lucky (1943) – Musical #841

Studio:
Paramount Pictures

Director:
Curtis Bernhardt

Starring:
Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Bracken, Mabel Paige, Eric Blore, Clem Bevans, Irving Bacon (uncredited), Dorothy Dandridge (uncredited), Kay Linaker (uncredited), Lillian Randolph (uncredited)
Themselves: Rita Christiani, Sir Lancelot

Plot:
Marjory Stewart (Martin) travels to Trindad posing as an heiress trying to hunt for a wealthy husband, with the help of her friend, Bubbles Hennessy (Hutton). She meets Pete Hamilton (Powell), who is also financially down-on-his-luck. Pete quickly figures out Marjory is a phony, but offers to help her catch a real millionaire, the stuffy Alfred Monroe (Vallee). All the while, Pete’s pal, Wally Case (Bracken) is outrunning Bubbles.

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