Cry for Happy is a 1961 colour movie directed by George Marshall

George Marshall (director)

George E. Marshall was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of movie history....

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Plot

A Navy photographer and his three-man team occupy a Tokyo geisha house during the Korean War. Though off-limits,
four girls are living there. At first, they misunderstand the geisha's occupation, later romance develops. Eventually the Navy discovers them and the sailors and the geishas decide to quickly convert the geisha house into an temporary orphanage. However the orphanage is successful and finally Prince and Suzuki marry two of the girls.

Cast

• Glenn Ford
  Glenn Ford
  Glenn Ford was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades...
  
   ~ Andy Cyphers
• Donald O'Connor
  Donald O'Connor
  Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule...
  
   ~ Murray Prince
• Miiko Taka
  Miiko Taka
  is a Japanese American actress best known for co-starring with Marlon Brando as Hana-ogi in the 1957 movie Sayonara.-'Sayonara':Taka was born in Seattle, but raised in Los Angeles, California as a Nisei; her parents had immigrated from Japan. She graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1943...
  
   ~ Chiyoko
• James Shigeta
  James Shigeta
  James Shigeta is an American film and television actor. He is also a standards singer, musical theatre and nightclub performer, and recording artist. He is a Nisei or second-generation American of Japanese ancestry.-Early life:...
  
   ~ Suzuki
• Miyoshi Umeki
  Miyoshi Umeki
  was a naturalized American actress and standards singer. She was best known for her roles as Katsumi, the wife of Joe Kelly , in the 1957 film Sayonara, as Mei Li in the 1958 Broadway musical and 1961 film Flower Drum Song, and as Mrs. Livingston, the housekeeper of Bill Bixby's and Brandon Cruz's...
  
   ~ Harue
• Michi Kobi ~ Hanakichi
• Howard St. John
  Howard St. John
  Howard St. John was a Chicago-born character actor who specialized in unsympathetic roles. His work spanned Broadway, film and television...
  
   ~ Admiral Bennett
• Joe Flynn
  Joe Flynn (US actor)
  Joseph A. Flynn was an American character actor. He was best known for his role in the 1960s ABC television situation comedy, McHale's Navy. He was also a frequent guest star on 1960s TV shows such as Batman and appeared in several Walt Disney film comedies...
  
   ~ MacIntosh
• Chet Douglas
• Tsuruko Kobayashi
• Harriet E. MacGibbon
• Robert Kino
• Bob Okazaki
• Harlan Warde
  Harlan Warde
  Harlan Warde was a character actor active in television and movies. From 1958–1962 Warde joined Chuck Connors in The Rifleman. In 1962–1971 Warde joined the cast of the TV Western series The Virginian in the recurring role of Sheriff Brannon...
  
  
• Nancy Kovack
  Nancy Kovack
  __forcetoc__Nancy Kovack is a former American actress.-Biography:She attended the University of Michigan at age 15 and graduated by 19. At the age of 20 she had won eight beauty titles....