The Happy Thieves
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The Happy Thieves is a 1961 American crime/comedy-drama film starring Rex Harrison and Rita Hayworth, and directed by George Marshall. The film is based on the novel The Oldest Confession by Richard Condon. The film was poorly received, with star Harrison later describing it as "absolute rubbish".
The Happy Thieves
The painting stolen from the castle is Diego Velázquez's Rokeby Venus.
The painting they plan to steal from the Prado Museum is The Second of May 1808 by Francisco de Goya.
The cover story for working in the Prado is painting a legal copy of The Third of May 1808 by Goya.
Rex Harrison
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Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, in what was his breakthrough role. He won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as Henry VIII in the Broadway play Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949. He returned to Broadway portraying Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (1956) where he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
Harrison at his home in London in 1976, by Allan Warren
Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins alongside Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady
Harrison as Julius Caesar in Cleopatra (1963) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award