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Child of Manhattan is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edward Buzzell released in USA on 11 february 1933 with Nancy Carroll

Child of Manhattan (1933)

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Released in USA 11 february 1933

Length 1h10

Directed by Edward Buzzell

OriginUSA

Genres Drama, Romance

Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays

Rating63%

Child of Manhattan is a 1933 Pre-Code Columbia Pictures melodrama film based on the play Child of Manhattan by Preston Sturges, which was presented on Broadway in 1932. The film was directed by Edward Buzzell and written for the screen by Gertrude Purcell, and stars Nancy Carroll, star of musical comedies at Paramount, John Boles, and cowboy star Charles "Buck" Jones.

This was the second of Sturges' plays to be adapted into a film, after Strictly Dishonorable. "Most of the wittier and more pungent lines were lost in translation."

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Taxi dancer Madeleine McGonegle (Nancy Carroll) attracts the attention of millionaire Paul Vanderkill (John Boles), and when she becomes pregnant, they get married to avoid a scandal. When the baby dies at birth, Madeleine runs away to Mexico, to give Paul the divorce she thinks he wants. There, she meets "Panama Canal" Kelly (cowboy star Buck Jones), an old friend who proposed to her before he went west. Undeterred by her recent past, he asks her again to get married, and she eventually agrees. When Paul discovers where she is, he shows up just as the couple is about to be wed. When Panama overhears Madeleine confess her love to Paul, he bows out of the picture.

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Nancy Carroll
(Madelaine McGonagle)

John Boles
(Paul Vanderkill)

Buck Jones
(Panama Kelly)

Jessie Ralph
(Aunt Minnie)

Clara Blandick
(Aunt Sophie)

And :
Luis Alberni
Warburton Gamble
Jane Darwell
Betty Grable

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