{{short description|1919 film by Walter Edwards}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Happiness a la Mode | image = Happiness a la Mode (1919) - 4.jpg | caption = Still with Constance Talmadge and Harrison Ford | director = Walter Edwards | producer = Lewis J. Selznick | writer = {{ubl|Alice Eyton|Edwina LeVin}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Constance Talmadge|Harrison Ford}} | music = | editing = | cinematography = James Van Trees | studio = Selznick Pictures | distributor = Select Pictures | released = {{Film date|1919|06|15}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Happiness a la Mode''''' is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Walter Edwards and starring Harrison Ford and Constance Talmadge.<ref>Basinger p. 163</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Tried and Proven Pictures: ''Happiness a la Mode'' |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume= |issue= |pages=43 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=29 March 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibi00newy/page/n336/mode/1up |accessdate=25 October 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> young husband Richard Townsend finds that he is tired of his wife Barbara and has become infatuated with another woman. Barbara consents to give him a divorce and then determines to win him back within the three months that must elapse prior to the final decree of divorce. By clever ruses she manages to accomplish her purpose and the conclusion finds the pair happily married.
==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Constance Talmadge as Barbara Townsend * Harrison Ford as Richard Townsend * Betty Schade as Dorothy Mitchell * Myrtle Rishell as Eileen * Paul Weigel as Attorney Logan * Thomas Persse as Thompson * Al Fremont as Greenburg }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Jeanine Basinger. ''Silent Stars''. Wesleyan University Press, 2000.
==External links== {{commons category|Happiness a la Mode}} *{{IMDb title|0010207}}
Category:1919 films Category:1919 comedy films Category:American silent comedy films Category:Films directed by Walter Edwards Category:American silent feature films Category:1919 English-language films Category:Selznick Pictures films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1919 American films Category:English-language comedy films
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