According to an ad in the New York Times, the Columbia movie, a Stanley Kramer production, The Happy Time, had its World Premiere in New York, at the famed Radio City Music Hall ("Showplace of the Nation"; Rockefeller Center), on Thursday morning, October 30, 1952. The film starred: Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan,, with Marsha Hunt, Kurt Kasznar, Linda Christian, Marcel Dalio, Richard Erdman, Bobby Driscoll. The film was based on the Rogers & Hammerstein stage play.