Dormant for some time, Olive Films is back with two releases scheduled for May 6th: Johnny Come Lately (1943) and Love Happy (1949) on both DVD and Blu-Ray.

This marks the DVD & Blu debut for Johnny and the Blu bow for Love Happy.

Hollywood legend James Cagney (Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye) plays carefree ex-newspaperman Tom Richards. Arrested for vagrancy, he's saved from a jail term when Vinnie McLeod (Grace George), an elderly editor of a floundering local paper, offers him a job. Together they're out to make headlines as they work to expose political corruption in a small town.

Richards and McLeod refuse to buckle under the threats and demands of corrupt, rival newspaper owner, Big Boss Dougherty (Edward McNamara). The suspense mounts as Richards and McLeod stand their ground against Dougherty's powerful political machine.

As socially relevant today as when it was produced in 1943, Johnny Come Lately features Cagney in his first role since winning the 1942 Oscar for Best Actor in Yankee Doodle Dandy. The strong supporting cast includes Marjorie Main (Ma and Pa Kettle), Marjorie Lord (TV's Make Room for Daddy) and Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind). Directed by William K. Howard (Evelyn Prentice). Composer Leigh Harline (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio) received an Oscar nomination for his wonderful score.  

Love Happy was the final film starring the legendary Marx Brothers. Harpo Marx is a true patron of the arts, taking from the rich to help feed a group of poor actors struggling to open a new musical without financial backers. He unknowingly makes off with the missing Romanoff diamonds when he shoplifts a tin of sardines from a classy Manhattan market.

The diamonds have been smuggled into the country by a sinful yet scintillatingly beautiful jewel thief, Madame Egelichi (Ilona Massey). The Madame traces the tin back to the theater and becomes the show's financial backer. Hoping to recover the missing diamonds, she and her henchmen nearly bring the whole house down in a madcap race to retrieve the jewels on opening night. The all-star cast includes Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr and Marilyn Monroe. Directed by David Miller (Flying Tigers).