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'The happy time' is a fine comedy about the ups and downs of a loving, but ecentric French Canadian family in Quebec. It is a coming of age story about 12-year old Bebi played by Bobby Driscoll, a very popular child star who was beginning to grow up and this the perrfect choice for a coming of age story. It is based on the 1945 novel by Robert Fontaine. Samuel A. Taylor turned the popular book into a play. The book was published in 1945, but set in the 1920s, a time in which knickers were virtually universal in America and Canada. Knickers would persist a little longer in Canada than America. We are not sure why. Robert (Beni) wears a knickers suit with long black long stockings complete with a matching flat cap. The characters includes a French maid and a picturesqe grandfather. The Americans next door include a girl who has a crush on him and her brother who calls him 'fancy pants', we guess because of his knickers. Beni ignores the attentions of the American neighbor girl, because he's infatuated with the beautiful new maid. Beni also has trouble with a mean school master. The play was adapted into a Broadweay musical (1967).
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