The Happy Ending ( 1969 )

Overview

The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers.

Top Cast

Jean Simmons

Mary Wilson

John Forsythe

Fred Wilson

Shirley Jones

Flo Harrigan

Lloyd Bridges

Sam

Teresa Wright

Mrs. Spencer

Dick Shawn

Harry Bricker

Nanette Fabray

Agnes

Bobby Darin

Franco (as Robert Darin)

Tina Louise

Helen Bricker

Kathy Fields

Marge Wilson

Karen Steele

Divorcee

Gail Hensley

Betty

Eve Brent

Ethel

William O'Connell

Minister

Barry Cahill

Handsome Man

Miriam Blake

Cindy

Erin Moran

Marge as a Child (uncredited)