13-455: (Redirected from The Happy Family ) Happy Family , The Happy Family , or A Happy Family may refer to: Film [ edit ] Happy Family (1934 film) or The Merry Frinks , an American comedy directed by Alfred E. Green A Happy Family , a 1935 Krazy Kat animated short The Happy Family (1936 film) , a British comedy directed by Maclean Rogers The Happy Family (1952 film) ,
26-713: A camp sensibility lay behind the successful Carry On films , while in America subversive independent film-maker John Waters made camp films for college audiences with his drag queen friends that eventually found a mainstream audience. The success of the American television show Saturday Night Live drove decades of cinema with racier content allowed on television drawing on the program's stars and characters, with bigger successes including Wayne's World , Mean Girls , Ghostbusters and Animal House . Parody and joke-based films continue to find audiences. While comedic films are among
39-447: A 1980s Scottish post-punk band Happy Family (Japanese band) , a progressive rock band Television [ edit ] Happy Family (American TV series) , a 2003 sitcom Happy Family (Singaporean TV series) , a 2010 drama Happy Family (Chinese TV series), an animated series produced by Creative Power Entertaining "Happy Family" ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent ) , an episode Happy Family: Conditions Apply ,
52-465: A 2023 Indian family comedy drama series Other uses [ edit ] Happy Family (food company) , an American organic baby-food company Happy Family (group theory) , the sporadic groups that are subquotients of the Monster group The Happy Family (painting) , a 1668 painting by Jan Steen The Happy Family (play) , a 1951 play by Michael Clayton Hutton "The Happy Family" (fairy tale),
65-533: A British comedy directed by Muriel Box Happy Family (2002 film) , a Hong Kong film directed by Herman Yau Happy Family (2006 film) or ' N Beetje Verliefd , a Dutch comedy film directed by Martin Koolhoven Happy Family (2010 film) , an Italian film directed by Gabriele Salvatores Happy Family (2017 film) or Monster Family , a German-British animated film directed by Holger Tappe Music [ edit ] The Happy Family (band) ,
78-552: A story by Hans Christian Andersen See also [ edit ] Happy Families (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Happy Family . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Happy_Family&oldid=1247352860 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
91-416: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor . These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending , with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film, and it is derived from classical comedy in theatre . Some of
104-584: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Happy Family (1934 film) The Merry Frinks is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Aline MacMahon , Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert . It is also known by the alternative title of Happy Family . A put-upon mother inherits a fortune, on the condition that she abandon her deadbeat family. This spurs her family members to attempt to reform themselves in an effort to win her back. This 1930s comedy film–related article
117-658: The earliest silent films were slapstick comedies , which often relied on visual depictions, such as sight gags and pratfalls, so they could be enjoyed without requiring sound. To provide drama and excitement to silent movies, live music was played in sync with the action on the screen, on pianos, organs, and other instruments. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films grew in popularity, as laughter could result from both burlesque situations but also from humorous dialogue . Comedy, compared with other film genres , places more focus on individual star actors, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to
130-515: The film industry due to their popularity. In The Screenwriters Taxonomy (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story, and therefore, the labels "drama" and "comedy" are too broad to be considered a genre. Instead, his taxonomy argues that comedy is a type of film that contains at least a dozen different sub-types. A number of hybrid genres have emerged, such as action comedy and romantic comedy . The first comedy film
143-743: The most popular with audiences at the box office, there is an 'historical bias against a close and serious consideration of comedy' when it comes to critical reception and conferring of awards, such as at the Academy Awards . Film writer Cailian Savage observes "Comedies have won Oscars, although they’ve usually been comedy-dramas, involved very depressing scenes, or appealed to stone-hearted drama lovers in some other way, such as Shakespeare in Love ." According to Williams' taxonomy , all film descriptions should contain their type (comedy or drama) combined with one (or more) sub-genres. This combination does not create
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#1732852581240156-508: The use of comedy film to make social statements by building their narratives around sensitive cultural, political or social issues. Such films include Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb , Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? and The Graduate . In America, the sexual revolution drove an appetite for comedies that celebrated and parodied changing social morals, including Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Fanny Hill . In Britain,
169-414: Was L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895), directed and produced by film pioneer Louis Lumière . Less than a minute long, it shows a boy playing a prank on a gardener. The most notable comedy actors of the silent film era (1895–1927) were Charlie Chaplin , Harold Lloyd , and Buster Keaton , though they were able to make the transition into “ talkies ” after the 1920s. Film-makers in the 1960s skillfully employed
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