Cry for Happy
You'll cry for happy, happy, happy when four U.S. sailors take over a geisha house...geisha girls and all !
1961 | 110m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | George Marshall |
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| Writer: | Irving Brecher, George Campbell |
| Staring: |
| Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 03, 1961 |
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| Director: | George Marshall |
| Writer: | Irving Brecher, George Campbell |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | navy, geisha |
| Production Companies | William Goetz Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $1,800,000
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2026 Entered: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Glenn Ford | Harue |
| Donald O'Connor | Murray Prince |
| James Shigeta | Harue |
| Miiko Taka | Chiyoko |
| Miyoshi Umeki | Harue |
| Michi Kobi | Harakichi |
| Howard St. John | Vice Adm. Junius B. Bennett |
| Joe Flynn | John McIntosh |
| Chet Douglas | Lank |
| Tsuruko Kobayashi | Koyuki |
| Harriet E. MacGibbon | Mrs. Bennett |
| Robert Kino | Mr. Endo |
| Bob Okazaki | Izumi |
| Harlan Warde | Chaplain |
| Nancy Kovack | Camille Cameron |
| Chick Hearn | Commander (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Charles J. Rice | Recording Supervision |
| Irving Brecher | Screenplay |
| George Campbell | Novel |
| Chester W. Schaeffer | Editor |
| Burnett Guffey | Director of Photography |
| Walter Holscher | Art Direction |
| William Kiernan | Set Decoration |
| Norma Koch | Costume Design |
| Helen Hunt | Hairstylist |
| Ben Lane | Makeup Artist |
| George Marshall Jr. | Assistant Director |
| Lambert E. Day | Sound |
| Arthur Morton | Orchestrator |
| George Marshall | Director |
| George Duning | Original Music Composer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| William Goetz | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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Just after the end of WWII, a team of American naval photographers lodge in a Japanese geisha house. Led by Glenn Ford ("Andy") they have some light-hearted adventures as, aided by Donald O'Connor's "Price", the sailors learn a little of the culture of their hostesses and more about their tradition ... (i.e. they are not hookers). Simultaneously, they must try to avoid their bosses jumping to any inaccurate conclusions - even if that means pretending that they are really running an orphanage! It's a bit of a one joke film, this; O'Connor really doesn't look like he wants to be there at all and though it does have flashes of humour, I just felt they were too few and far between in this colourful and friendly, but otherwise quite sluggish, drama.