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Happy Go Lucky (1943) Facts
| Director(s) | Curtis Bernhardt |
| Producer(s) | No producer listed for this movie |
| Featured Cast | Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Rudy Vallée |
| Total Facts | 2 |
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
The song "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay/Ray" was not written by Henry Gordon Thayer at all; he heard it performed in a speakeasy by an African-American performer called Mama Lou; after taking down the notes and lyrics, he sanitized the words as much as possible and published it as his own. The song was later the subject of a copyright battle in the courtroom and was declared to be in the public domain, meaning anybody can use it.