A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American pre-Code romance drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, and Adolphe Menjou. Based on the 1929 semi-autobiographical novel "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway, with a screenplay by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Benjamin Glazer, the film is about a romantic love affair between an American ambulance driver and an English nurse in Italy during World War I. The film received Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Art Direction. In 1960,
Is Everybody Happy? (1929 film) Project website. A five-minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube. Lewis and his orchestra also appeared in a short subject called "Is Everybody Happy?" (1941), consisting of musical numbers cut from the Abbott and Costello feature film "Hold That Ghost" (1941) released by Universal Studios. Columbia Pictures released a feature-length biopic of Lewis also titled "Is Everybody Happy?" (1943). Notes Is Everybody Happy? (1929 film) Is Everybody Happy? (1929) is an American Pre-Code musical film starring Ted Lewis, Alice Day, Lawrence Grant, Ann Pennington, and Julia Swayne Gordon, directed by Archie Mayo, and released by Warner Bros.