ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

jacob-chiong I find this movie very enjoyable. The plot is simple and easily digestible, the humour is light and clean, and because the storyline involving mistaken identity is quite common, I find myself looking forward to how this movie flesh this story out. Turns out to be very nice. The performance of the female lead is admirable; her portrayal of an innocent, naive girl trying to fabricate some white lies to David's sophisticated role was very charming. I also find Vera's dancing very, very well done. I find myself drawn to her toes as she pranced about the stage effortlessly and flawlessly.For those who have had enough of profanity-filled movies of today, you will enjoy this movie thoroughly.

April Glaspie Happy Go Lovely is a waste of everybody's time and talent including the audience. The lightness of the old-hat mistaken identity and faux scandal plot lines is eminently forgivable. Very few people watched these movies for their plots. But, they usually had some interesting minor characters involved in subplots -- not here. They usually had interesting choreography and breathtaking dancing and catchy songs. Not Happy Go Lovely. And Vera-Ellen as the female lead played the whole movie as a second banana looking desperately for a star to play off it -- and instead she was called upon to carry the movie, and couldn't do it. The Scottish locale was wasted. Usually automatically ubiquitous droll Scottish whimsy is absent. The photography was pedestrian. The musical numbers were pedestrian. Cesar Romero gives his usual professional performance, chewing up the scenery since no one else was doing his part, in the type of producer role essayed frequently by Walter Abel and Adolph Menjou. David Niven is just fine, and no one could do David Niven like David Niven. At the end of the day, if you adore Niven as I do, it's reason enough to waste 90 minutes on Happy Go Lovely. If not, skip it.

Neil Doyle Any movie that gives me a chance to watch VERA-ELLEN dance is worth giving it a view, in my opinion--so I watched this little musical comedy pairing her with charming David NIVEN. It's the old mistaken identity theme played to the hilt by a cast that includes CESAR ROMERO as a harried musical producer with financial woes.Unfortunately, a clumsily staged opening Scottish number gets the musical off to a bad start with a distinct lack of charm and bad staging. The backers don't seem too enthusiastic about giving Romero a chance to go on with his show--and it's understandable. "Half of you dance as if you're flat footed," he tells the dancers.When his star walks out, he has no other choice but to turn to VERA-ELLEN...get the picture? Especially after rumors link her with a millionaire in Scotland (David NIVEN) who might provide the right financial backing for Romero's show.The story is obviously a showcase for VERA-ELLEN and on that level it's a bit of a disappointment. She's pert, pretty and knows how to dance. But poor David NIVEN, as the millionaire, has to wait a good half-hour before he even makes an appearance. He ambles through his role with professional ease, but it's a trifle and he knows it.Unfortunately, the concentration on a backstage plot doesn't pay off. It's tiresome stuff and the musical numbers are banal, none of the songs making a lasting impression.Given that it's played as a musical comedy, perhaps that's why the color is a little more garish than usual for a British film.Summing up: At your own risk. Not a bit of inspiration in any of Vera-Ellen's musical numbers.

bkoganbing I don't think any player in Hollywood history lasted as long as David Niven did given most of the weak films he had to carry by dint of his incredible charm. He could act, got an Oscar for it, but most of the material he did was as light as one ply of two ply tissue paper.Happy Go Lovely is a case in point. It's a musical and for the most part you'll remember Vera-Ellen's dancing. You'll remember that they are in Scot's costume as the film is set in Edinburgh during their festival. But if you can recall a single song from it you must have a photographic memory.The plot is light. Vera-Ellen is the American lead in a musical that apparently is getting its out of town tryout in Edinburgh. She starts in the chorus and runs late one day. She gets a lift from the chauffeur of a millionaire greeting card king. Everybody now assumes she's the main squeeze of the millionaire. Doors open up as they've never opened before.The millionaire is David Niven and he goes along with it and the various situations that are engendered by the mistake. Cesar Romero has some good moments here as the frantic producer of this musical.In the end though Happy Go Lovely is light and harmless fluff which David Niven did so much of and got so tired of.