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  • Happy Days (1980)
  • Not Rated
    85 min
Happy Days (1980)
Not Rated
85 min
Suffused with tenderness, lucidity, and humor, this Samuel Beckett play is a comedy in pure music-hall style. Legendary actress Irene Worth stars as Winnie, an optimist who senses deep-down that she has little cause to feel "happy". Worth ...See moreSuffused with tenderness, lucidity, and humor, this Samuel Beckett play is a comedy in pure music-hall style. Legendary actress Irene Worth stars as Winnie, an optimist who senses deep-down that she has little cause to feel "happy". Worth gives a tour-de-force performance as she chatters incessantly and cheerily on a variety of subjects. Winnie never allows a day to pass without looking her best and hoping for better. Worth portrays Winnie as the embodiment of humankind's nobler virtues: wise, majestic, and committed to her conviction that "this will have been a happy day." See less
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Director
David Heeley
Writer
Samuel Beckett (play)
Editor
John J. Godfrey
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Updated Jun 25, 1980
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Jun 25, 1980 (United States)

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