You Gotta Stay Happy.

A comedy in which a runaway bride, a trained chimpanzee, an embezzler, an amorous pair of newlyweds, and a corpse make up the cargo on a cross country flight.

New York heiress Diana "Dee Dee" Dillwood is having second thoughts about her marriage to Henry Benson. Marvin Payne is a World War II air force veteran trying to make it on a shoe-string with a startup air-freight business. Marvin's business partner, fellow veteran and co-pilot, Bullets Baker, shows up and finds Dee Dee knocked out by a sleeping pill. The half-conscious Dee Dee begs Marvin to fly her out of town, insinuating that she is in a serious predicament.

Credits

Cast
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert

Copyright

Complete catalog record
YOU GOTTA STAY HAPPY. Rampart Productions, Inc., Released by Universal-International, c1948. 100 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on a story by Robert Carson. Summary: A comedy in which a runaway bride, a trained chimpanzee, an embezzler, an amorous pair of newlyweds, and a corpse make up the cargo on a cross country flight. Credits: Produced and written for the screen by Karl Tunberg; director, H. C. Potter; music, Daniele Amfitheatrof; orchestrations, David Tamkin; film editor, Paul Weatherwax. Cast: Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker. Appl. author: Universal Pictures Co., Inc. © Rampart Productions, Inc.; 16Nov48; LP1944.

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
  2. United World Films, Inc. 16mm Sound Motion Pictures Catalog, 1954-1955 — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits
  3. Wikidata · Q3706275 ↗ — country
  4. U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright