I am for happy movies.So what is the happiest movie you ever have seen ..please name them..& share

[Stuart G]

I need to think..Maybe.."Taming of the Shrew.." Wonderful fun, Taylor & Burton are great..
I will add others as I think about it. (If you don't know it, above is a comedy from a well known author)

One of my favorites...: Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 ..directed by Frank Capra.
................................. Around the World in 80 Days, 1959
................................. Some Like it Hot, Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis, & Marilyn Monroe (also Joe E. Brown) 1959
................................. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World ..Spencer Tracey., and a host of others..
................................. Animated...The Iron Giant.
................................. Favorite musical ... Singin' in the Rain, Gene Kelly, Donald O Connor, Debbie Renolds

[elleng]

1. Kiss me Kate

[NBachers]

2. The Bishop's Wife, the one with Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young.

[global1]

3. All Hallmark Movies End Happily.....

Over the holiday season I got to watching the Hallmark Channel instead of watching the depressing news shows.

The stories are pretty much have all similar themes. It seems like they have a template that they use to put these movies together. Pretty much cookie cutter.

But if you a bordering on being demoralized by our news these days or depressed because of Covid - these movies can pick you up out of that funk.

[cbabe]

4. Babe. That'll do pig. Mechanical alarm clock rooster. Plus singing mice

[Stuart G]

6. I forgot about ..".Babe" wonderful film.....about Babe the Pig..Yes, a movie about a pig..

[Totally Tunsie]

7. +1

[cbabe]

9. Also best song and dance by a farmer.

[Totally Tunsie]

5. The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[smirkymonkey]

35. Happy New Year, Tunsie!

I LOVE Dirty Rotten Scoundrels!

[Totally Tunsie]

38. And a hearty HNY to you, smirky!

Are you a big Michael Caine fan also?

[smirkymonkey]

39. Yes, I am!

And I especially loved him in that film! I am kind of an Anglophile, so I love most British actors and films (although I don't think that was a Brit film).

[Ponietz]

8. Studio Ghibli films!

[crud]

12. TOTORO!

[Ponietz]

23. and Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Pom Poko...so many more

We are fortunate to have these works of art from the genius Miyazaki. The films lift me up and I share in the worldview they depict — characters with character.

I just watched two newer ones made after his retirement —
When Marnie Was There and Hedwig and the Witch and highly recommend them. Hedwig is as great a character as Chihiro in Spirited Away.

[Upthevibe]

10. Stuart G ....

I'm down for the night so I'm half asleep but I'll post my happy movies when I'm coherent.

I have "Arsenic and Old Lace" on my DVR and it's one of the three movies I fall asleep to almost every night. IMHO, it's a brilliant film. The casting is perfection.....one of my favorite movies of all time.

[Stuart G]

11. I got to add my favorite short film.7min..Called ..Fast and Furreous directed by Chuck Jones, 1949

It is a "cartoon" staring my hero ....Wilie E. Coyote..who never gives up...
........................................................the other star is a fast critter called ..The Road Runner

[happybird]

13. Goonies always makes me happy

Don’t know if it’s the happiest movie I’ve ever seen, but was the first that came to mind.

[Cartoonist]

14. A Hard Day's Night

A few good songs too.

[Twoflower]

15. The Princess Bride.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. For me, The Red Balloon. YMMV.❤

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon

[TygrBright]

17. Local Hero n/t

[VGNonly]

29. +1

My favorite movie!

[Bayard]

18. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Galaxy Quest
The Princess Bride
Ferris Bueller
Babe

[Laffy Kat]

19. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!

I laughed until I cried.

[Trueblue1968]

20. TOOTSIE .... DUSTIN HOFFMAN

AND I LOVE THIS SONG ...... Stephen Bishop - It Might Be You (Tootsie) (1982)

[Rhiannon12866]

21. My favorite musical is "The Music Man"

I actually saw it performed live somewhere with my parents as a little kid - starring Van Johnson as Professor Harold Hill. My cousin and I had the record so we knew all the songs - and we both thought Shirley Jones was so beautiful! I still can't help watching whenever it's on.

[TygrBright]

32. Totally agree with you! It's super fun live...

You just KNOW they sweated the rehearsals to get all those intricate call-and-response and interwoven melody numbers down.

"CASH for the merchandise, CASH for the buttonhooks"

"And when the man dances, certainly boys, what else? The piper pays him!"

So many wonderful numbers.

Thanks for bringing it up, I'm gonna go dig out the DVD and treat myself.

happily,
Bright

[Ziggysmom]

22. The Birdcage, Mrs. Doubtfire, Groundhog Day, Big and The Wizard of Oz

[jrandom421]

24. The hapiest movie i ever sas was not a comedy

Marty-1955

It was the picture that launched Ernest Borgnine to fame. if a poor schlub like Marty could find a girl that liked him. maybe there was some hope for me. Married for 25 years now, I'm gkad I was inspired to stay open to the possiblity,

[electric_blue68]

25. For Animation - Monsters Inc 🥰😂🥰😂🥰

🤔
I think we'd gone through something medically scary in our family...
I went to see it, and it was so cathartic I saw it 2 more times.
I have the DVD, too.

Sooo funny and clever. The visuals are a delight, all ngv with one major jaw dropping scene!

[electric_blue68]

26. Goodness, yes, on Mrs Doubtfire!!! ...

I was in a crisis, and watching it on DVD made me pretty much forget my situation I was so absorbed, and laughing SO much!

[DFW]

27. The Russians Are Coming is one of my all time favorites, too, but...

"Fame" tops my list for feel-good films. Not EVERYTHING ends well, but most of it does and the sheer joy of making music makes it burst with positive energy.

A friend of mine had a minor/major role in The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming, so it remains a sentimental favorite. Unlike Alan Arkin, who had to learn every syllable of his lines, as he spoke no Russian, my friend did speak it, even had participated in the recording of albums of Russian folk songs (once with the legendary Sasha Polinoff!).

[Talitha]

28. Harry and The Hendersons

Also, We Bought a Zoo.

Both make me smile.

[NNadir]

30. Bringing Up Baby.

Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.

[rurallib]

31. I will go with "Young Frankenstein"

Or just about any Mel Brooks movie

[Marthe48]

33. Bringing up Baby

Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn If you like Arsenic and Old Lace, you'll love this one

Might be hard to find, but another one is You Can't Take It With You The original movie 1938 (Lionel Barrymore, Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur) is wonderful but there was a taped live performance starring Jason Robards that was hilarious.

[yellowdogintexas]

41. I so wish I could find a copy of the Jason Robards version

It was wonderful. Coleen Dewhurst was hysterical, hamming it up as the Grand Duchess Olga Tatiana.

One of my favorite plays; I have seen it 3 times live.

[Marthe48]

43. I bought my husband a DVD of the version

I got it for him years ago. I probably still have it, but where? I should look around and find it

[nolabear]

34. Can't pick one. But Some Like it Hot is SO good.

[Stuart G]

36. Another...."Land Before Time"

[yardwork]

37. Moonstruck. One of my all-time favorites.

[avebury]

40. Here is a list:

That Touch of Mink - Doris Day and Cary Grant
Just about any Doris Day and Rock Hudson or Hepburn & TrAcy movies
Original Yours Mine and Ours movie with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda
Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell
The original Cheaper by the Dozen
The Bachelor and the Bobby Boxer with Myrna Loy and Cary Grant
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
Father Goose with Ellie Caron and Cary Grant
Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant Tony Curtis etc
Gigi
Keeping Up With the Jonses
Both Mamma Mia movies
Monster-in-Law with Jennifer Lopez taking on Jane Fonda
The Pentagon Wars is pretty funny as is Down Peridcope, both with Kelsey Grammar
Sitting Pretty with Clifton Webb

[yellowdogintexas]

42. The Great Race and Victor, Victoria (both by Blake Edwards)

both movies make me happy.

[Tracer]

44. Breaking Away.

Such a wonderful movie. Happy, sad, comical, upbeat. Just great.

[Glorfindel]

45. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Sean Connery singing & dancing)

My Fair Lady (the Ascot Gavotte may be my favorite scene of all time)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

[kairos12]

46. A Night at the Opera. Marx Brothers all time classic.

[radicalleft]

47. My wife and I love

Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men...takes us to our happy place!

[tanyev]

48. Not a big hit, but I love Joe Versus The Vocano.

[wnylib]

49. My favorite musicals are, unfortunately,

tragic - West Side Story and Into the Woods.

But, for happy movies, I like:

It's Complicated (Mery Streep, Alex Baldwin, Steve Martin)
Meet the Fockers (Ben Stiller, Barbara Streisand, Dustin Hoffman)
Matilda
The Indiana Jones films

One of the funniest films, IMO, is Steel Magnolias. It has a couple really tragic scenes guaranteed to make you cry, but humor helps the characters through the sadness, so that it ends on an upbeat tone. It's a treasure trove of some of the funniest comedy lines I have ever heard. Great cast, too - Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine,

[wnylib]

50. My favorite musicals are, unfortunately,

tragic - West Side Story and Into the Woods.

But, for happy movies, I like:

It's Complicated (Mery Streep, Alex Baldwin, Steve Martin)
Meet the Fockers (Ben Stiller, Barbara Streisand, Dustin Hoffman)
Matilda
The Indiana Jones films

One of the funniest films, IMO, is Steel Magnolias. It has a couple really tragic scenes guaranteed to make you cry, but humor helps the characters through the sadness, so that it ends on an upbeat tone. It's a treasure trove of some of the funniest comedy lines I have ever heard. Great cast, too - Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Sally Fields, Julia Roberts, Olympia Dukakis. Daryl Hannah, Sam Shepard, and Tom Skerritt.