Manhattan Love Song
Directed byLeonard Fields
Written byDavid Silverstein
Based onManhattan Love Song by Cornell Woolrich
Produced byTrem Carr
StarringRobert Armstrong
Dixie Lee
Franklin Pangborn
CinematographyRobert H. Planck
Edited byCarl Pierson
Music byBernie Grossman
Edward Ward
Production
company
Distributed byMonogram Pictures
Release date
April 30, 1934
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Manhattan Love Song is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy drama film directed by Leonard Fields and starring Robert Armstrong, Dixie Lee and Franklin Pangborn.[1] It was produced and distributed by Monogram Pictures. It is based on the 1932 novel of the same title by Cornell Woolrich.[2]

Plot summary

Although sisters Geraldine and Carol Stewart live luxuriously in a Park Avenue apartment in New York City, their money has run out due to some bad business investments. Their servants, Williams and Annette, expect to be leaving, but the sisters invite them to remain as paying tenants. They agree, then surprise the haughty sisters by expecting them to share in performing the household chores.

Geraldine looks for work, but receives no offers except for a striptease act in a burlesque show. Williams is mistaken for a taxi driver by a wealthy tourist, "Pancake Annie" Jones from Nevada, who has come with her son Phineas to seek an entry into Manhattan high society.

Carol elopes with a rich acquaintance, Garrett Wetherby, which leaves Geraldine on her own, needing money. She accepts the job doing a striptease, but is arrested when the club is raided. Williams decides to accept Pancake Annie's offer to go West in her employment. Geraldine realizes she loves Williams and asks to go along.

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  1. ^ Bradley p.67
  2. ^ Goble p.510

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