As Long As They're Happy

As Long As They're Happy

She's De-Lovely!

1955 · 91 min · ★ 7.5 · Music, Comedy

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine, are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist, and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household – including the maid – fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting not the singer but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson · Written by Alan Melville

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Jack Buchanan John Bentley
Janette Scott Gwen Bentley
Jeannie Carson Pat Bentley
Brenda De Banzie Stella Bentley
Susan Stephen Corinne Bentley
Jerry Wayne Bobby Denver
Diana Dors Pearl Delaney
Hugh McDermott Barnaby Brady
David Hurst Dr. Hermann Schneider
Athene Seyler Mrs. Arbuthnot
Joan Sims Linda
Nigel Green Peter

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