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The Happy Years

7.7 110 mins Comedy   Romance   1950
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  
Director(s): William A. Wellman

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.

Casts of The Happy Years

Dean Stockwell

as John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover

Darryl Hickman

as George 'Tough' McCarty

Scotty Beckett

as 'Tennessee' Shad

Leon Ames

as Sr. Samuel H. Stover

Margalo Gillmore

as Maude Stover

Leo G. Carroll

as Mr. Hopkins

Donn Gift

as Joshua Montgomery Smead

Danny Mummert

as "Butsey" White

Elinor Donahue

as Connie Brown

George Chandler

as Johnny

Irving Bacon

as Mr. Conover

Arthur Space

as Al

Leon Tyler

as Edward "Puffy" Ellis

Claudia Barrett

as Dolly Travers

Jacqueline deWit

as Mrs. Cameron

Charles Smith

as Student

Robert Wagner

as Student

Jerry Mickelsen

as Cheyenne Baxter

Mason Alan Dinehart

as Coffee Colored Angel

David Bair

as White Mountain Canary

Eddie LeRoy

as Poler Beekstein

Jeralyn Alton

as Clara 'Tootsie' Stover (uncredited)

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