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    Cry for Happy (1961)

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    Unable to find living space to rent in overcrowded Tokyo on their leave from the Korean War, CPO Andy Cyphers (Glenn Ford) and his trio of American Navy combat cameramen take up residence in an off-limits geisha house.

    The gobs and the girls get on just fine until the Navy goes looking for its wayward photographers.

    To avert complete disaster, Andy and his major associate in trouble, Murray Prince (the inimitable Donald O’Connor) convert the house into an ‘orphanage’.

    The top brass then want to see their living quarters and the non-existent toddlers. There follows a frantic scramble to round up a group of neighbourhood kids to play the orphans.

    The press gives the fake orphanage a big spread, and cash pours in from stateside. Presto! A real orphanage is founded as the last reel fades out, and some of the sailors marry some of the geisdhas.

    CPO Andy Cyphers
    Glenn Ford
    Murray Prince
    Donald O’Connor
    Chiyoko
    Miiko Taka
    Suzuki
    James Shigeta
    Harue
    Miyoshi Umeki
    Harakichi
    Michi Kobi
    Vice Admiral Junius B. Bennett
    Howard St. John
    John McIntosh
    Joe Flynn
    Lank
    Chet Douglas
    Koyuki
    Tsuruko Kobayashi
    Mrs Bennett
    Harriet E. MacGibbon
    Mr Endo
    Robert Kino
    Izumi
    Bob Okazaki
    Chaplain
    Harlan Warde
    Camille Cameron
    Nancy Kovack
    Lt. Glick
    Ted Knight
    Alan Lyman
    Bill Quinn
    Keiko
    Ciyo Nakasone

    Director
    George Marshall

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