The Happy Family is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Hugh Williams, Leonora Corbett and Max Adrian.^[1] It was shot at Beaconsfield Studios outside London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Norman G. Arnold. The film was based on the West End play French Salad by Max Catto.

The plot concerns a mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle, spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.

• Hugh Williams as Victor Hutt
• Leonora Corbett as Barbara Hutt
• Max Adrian as Noel Hutt
• Maidie Hope as Mrs Hutt
• Eve Gray as Nia Harrison
• Ellen Pollock as Leo Hutt
• Glennis Lorimer as Robina Hutt
• D. A. Clarke-Smith as Mr Harrison
• Dick Francis as Mr Hutt
• Muriel George as Housekeeper

• Shafer, Stephen C. British popular films, 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance. Routledge, 1997.
• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

• The Happy Family at IMDb

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