Many Happy Returns is a 1934 American pre-Code Paramount Pictures comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Gracie Allen, George Burns and George Barbier.
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Cast
Gracie Allen as herself
George Burns as himself
George Barbier as Horatio Allen
Joan Marsh as Florence Allen
Ray Milland as Ted Lambert
Stanley Fields as Joe
William Demarest as Brinker
Johnny Arthur as Davis
Franklin Pangborn as Allen's Secretary
Egon Brecher as Dr. Otto von Strudel
Jack Mulhall as actor
Morgan Wallace as Nathan Silas
Kenneth Thomson as Motion Picture Director
Guy Lombardo as himself
Veloz and Yolanda as specialty dancers
Reception
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Mordaunt Hall wrote: "[The film] depends chiefly on Gracie Allen and George Burns for its mirth. It is one of those impossible features where almost anything is likely to happen. Given the slightest excuse, orchestral and other music is played. .... The activities in this film in going from Gotham to Hollywood appear to have been a little too much for both Miss Allen and Mr. Burns, for they seem to have run out of really funny lines."