Happiness Is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls Royce

Happiness is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls-Royce is an American play. It ran for 4 previews and one performance.^[1] It was written by Arthur Alsberg and Robert Fisher who had worked together in television.

Happiness is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls-Royce
Written by	Arthur Alsberg Robert Fisher
Date premiered	May 8, 1968 (1968-05-08)
Place premiered	Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Original language	English
Genre	comedy
Setting	New York. The past, the present and the future.

The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway. Goldman commented that the play:

Had all the time-proven materials of the sex-comedy genre, and I think that if the time were 40 years ago, it might have had an enormous success. The dedicated: young painter, a girl on her own: that was an exciting twenties notion. And the fact that this wacky but honest girl put out; well, you’ve got something there. That would have been good for a season’s run 40 years ago. But the by-now paralyzing familiarity, I think, killed it. Plus the fact that the basic notion—a man buys a Rolls-Royce—is kind of limited.^[2]

Premise

A young lawyer buys a Rolls Royce for his pushy wife. In the back is a young female artist.

Cast of Broadway run

• Lee Bergere as Phil Gorshin
• Alexandra Berlin as Andrea Clithero
• Hildy Brooks as Myra Bagley
• Phoebe Dorin as Karen Kinsey
• Ray Fulmer as Jerry Ramsey
• Pat Harrington as Walter Bagley
• Marvin Lichterman as Chuck Kinsey
• John McGiver as Andrew McIntire
• Shimen Ruskin as Sanford Rutchik