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{{Infobox film
| name = Happy Is the Bride
| image = "Happy_is_the_Bride"_(1958).jpg
| caption = British theatrical poster
| director = [[John and Roy Boulting|Roy Boulting]]
| producer = [[Paul Soskin]]
| screenplay = [[John and Roy Boulting|Roy Boulting]]<br />[[Jeffrey Dell]]
| based_on = play ''[[Quiet Wedding (play)|Quiet Wedding]]'' by [[Esther McCracken]].
| starring = [[Ian Carmichael]]<br> [[Janette Scott]]<br> [[Cecil Parker]]
| music = [[Benjamin Frankel]]
| cinematography = [[Edward Scaife]]
| editing = [[Anthony Harvey]]
| studio = Paul Soskin Productions (as Panther)
| distributor = [[British Lion Films]] (UK)
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1958|3|4}}
| runtime = 84 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''Happy Is the Bride''''' is a 1958 [[black and white]] [[British comedy]] film written and directed by [[Roy Boulting]] and starring [[Ian Carmichael]], [[Janette Scott]], [[Cecil Parker]], [[Terry-Thomas]] and [[Joyce Grenfell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/35745|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114093557/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/35745|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 January 2009|title=Happy Is the Bride|work=BFI|accessdate=26 October 2014}}</ref> It is based on the play ''[[Quiet Wedding (play)|Quiet Wedding]]'' by [[Esther McCracken]], [[Quiet Wedding|previously filmed in 1941]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b3c58ff|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713085422/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b3c58ff|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-13|title=Quiet Wedding (1941)|work=BFI}}</ref>

== Plot ==
In a quiet summer corner of [[Wiltshire]] that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father. One way or another the wedding - if there is one - is going to be an unforgettable occasion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050482/plotsummary|title=Happy Is the Bride (1958) - IMDb|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Ian Carmichael]] as David Chaytor
* [[Janette Scott]] as Janet Royd
* [[Cecil Parker]] as Arthur Royd
* [[Terry-Thomas]] as Policeman
* [[Joyce Grenfell]] as Aunt Florence
* [[Eric Barker]] as Vicar
* [[Edith Sharpe]] as Mildred Royd
* [[Elvi Hale]] as Petula
* [[Miles Malleson]] as 1st Magistrate
* [[Athene Seyler]] as Aunt Harriet
* [[Irene Handl]] as Mme. Edna
* [[John Le Mesurier]] as Chaytor
* [[Thorley Walters]] as Jim
* [[Nicholas Parsons]] as John Royd
* [[Virginia Maskell]] as Marcia
* [[Brian Oulton]] as 2nd Magistrate
* [[Joan Hickson]] as Mrs. Bowels
* [[Cardew Robinson]] as George the Verger
* [[Sam Kydd]] as Foreman
* [[Arthur Mullard]] as a house redecorator (uncredited)

==Critical reception==
[[Leonard Maltin]] called the film a "mild [[farce]]";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/77345/Happy-Is-the-Bride/|title=Happy Is the Bride (1958) - Overview - TCM.com|work=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref> while [[Bosley Crowther]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "Mr. Boulting has assembled and directed a typically fine British cast, which plays the farcical proceedings with skill and apparent enjoyment...all the characters are amusing. That's usually the way in a Boulting film."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/06/30/archives/screen-marital-farce-happy-is-the-bride-in-premiere-at-guild.html|title=Screen: Marital Farce; ' Happy Is the Bride' in Premiere at Guild (Published 1959)|first=Bosley|last=Crowther|newspaper=The New York Times |date=30 June 1959}}</ref>

==Box office==
''Kinematograph Weekly'' listed it as being "in the money" at the British box office in 1958.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Kinematograph Weekly|date=18 December 1958|first=Josh|last=Billings|page=7|title=Others in the Money}}</ref> It was one of the twelve most popular films of the year in Britain.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety214-1959-04/page/n211/mode/1up/search/%22kenneth+shipman%22?q=%22kenneth+shipman%22|title=Britain's Money Pacers 1958|date=15 April 1959|page=60}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0050482}}

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