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In The Happy Ending the acting is the showcase. Jean Simmons is excellent and so is Shirley Booth, who gives an understated, wonderful performance. Teresa Wright, who made such a career playing plucky, eager young women in the 1940s is great here as Jean Simmons' awful mother. Just all around the performances are excellent. Bobby Darin even has a great part!
Otherwise this feels in many ways like yet another movie about a sad, possibly suicidal, woman in an awful marriage in the 1960s who hasn't yet realized that it is marriage itself that is the problem. This the kind of part that Anne Bancroft really specialized in with movies like The Pumpkin Eater and The Slender Thread.
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