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Many Happy Returns is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Norman Z. McLeod released in USA on 8 june 1934 with Gracie Allen
Many Happy Returns (1934)
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Add to a movie listMany Happy Returns is a 1934 American Pre-Code Paramount Pictures comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Gracie Allen, George Burns, and George Barbier.
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Gracie Allen
(Gracie Allen)
George Burns
(George Burns)
George Barbier
(Horatio Allen)
Joan Marsh
(Florence Allen)
Ray Milland
(Ted Lambert)
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