Cry for Happy

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1958). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [nice clean copy, slight wear to cloth at spine ends; jacket has a few tiny nicks and chips along the top edge, but presents very well in new jacket protector]. Novel about six U.S. Navy men (members of the Pacific Fleet Combat Camera Unit), stationed in Tokyo during the Korean War, who become partners in a geisha house -- "as wild, delightful, charming, bittersweet, and satisfying a yarn as ever was told about the United States Navy." Hollywood went a little geisha-happy in the late 1950s and early 1960s (cf. THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA, THE GEISHA BOY, MY GEISHA); the 1961 movie made from this book, starring Glenn Ford and Donald O'Connor, came rather late in the cycle (if it can be called a cycle). The book is unaccountably scarce in the hardcover issue; does this movie have a cult following that I don't know about? I seem to recall that it was kinda cute when I saw it on TV as a kid, but suspect it would be insufferable today. .