Happy Birthday (play)

Happy Birthday is a play written by Anita Loos. It opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 31, 1946 and closed on March 13, 1948, after 564 performances. It starred Helen Hayes, for whom it was written. The story involves Addie, a mousy librarian who becomes enamoured of a handsome bank clerk, and her attempts to win him over.^[1] It was directed by Joshua Logan and featured a song written for the show, I Haven't Got a Worry in the World, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and James Livingston.^[2] (Rodgers and Hammerstein also served as producers.)

It was filmed as a television special for Producers' Showcase with Betty Field as Addie and aired on the NBC network on June 2, 1956.^[3]

Helen Hayes won the Tony Award, Best Actress in a Play and Lucinda Ballard won the Tony Award, Best Costume Design.

References

↑ answers.com information
↑ Bloom, Ken (2004). Broadway:Its History, People, and Places:An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 224. ISBN 0-415-93704-3.
↑ Internet Movie Database listing

External links

Internet Broadway Database listing

Anita Loos

Novels

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady. (1926)
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928)

Plays

Happy Birthday (1946)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
Gigi (1951)
Chéri (1959)

Film

Writer	My Baby (1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The New York Hat (1912) The Mistake (1913) The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913) Billy's Rival (1914) The Girl in the Shack (1914) The Hunchback (1914) Stranded (1916/I) His Picture in the Papers (1916) The Children Pay (1916) A Daughter of the Poor (1917) Reaching for the Moon (1917) Wild and Woolly (1917) Let's Get a Divorce (1918) The Isle of Conquest (1919) A Virtuous Vamp (1919) Mama's Affair (1921) The Struggle (1931) Red-Headed Woman (1932) The Barbarian (1933) San Francisco (1936) They Met in Bombay (1941) Producers' Showcase "Happy Birthday" (1956)

Screenplay	Red Hot Romance (1922) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Hold Your Man (1933) The Girl from Missouri (1934; original) Riffraff (1936) Saratoga (1937) The Women (1939) Susan and God (1940) Blossoms in the Dust (1941) When Ladies Meet (1941) I Married an Angel (1942)

Story	Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914) American Aristocracy (1916) Woman's Place (1921) Midnight Mary (1933) Saratoga (1937)

Novel	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

Titles	The Americano (1916) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)

Scenario	The Sisters (1914/I) The Americano (1916) The Lost House (1915)

Other	Macbeth (1916; intertitles) The Branded Woman (1920; adaptation) Red Hot Romance (1922; executive producer) Blondie of the Follies (1932; dialogue) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953; play)

Uncredited	The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) Another Thin Man (1939) Babes in Arms (1939) Strange Cargo (1940) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

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