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The Mad Miss Manton is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Leigh Jason released in USA on 21 october 1938 with Barbara Stanwyck

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

The Mad Miss Manton
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Released in USA 21 october 1938
Length 1h20
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Comedy thriller,    Romantic comedy,    Crime,    Romance
Rating66% 3.346543.346543.346543.346543.34654

The Mad Miss Manton is a 1938 American screwball comedy and mystery film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Barbara Stanwyck as fun-loving socialite Melsa Manton and Henry Fonda as newspaper editor Peter Ames. Melsa and her debutante friends hunt for a murderer while eating bonbons, flirting with Ames, and otherwise behaving like silly young women. Ames is also after the murderer, as well as Melsa's hand in marriage.

This was the first of three screen pairings for Stanwyck and Fonda, the others being The Lady Eve and You Belong to Me.

Synopsis

At 3:00 am, Melsa (Barbara Stanwyck) takes her little dogs for a walk. Near a subway construction site, she sees Ronnie Belden run out of a house and drive away. The house is for sale by Sheila Lane (Leona Maricle), the wife of George Lane, a wealthy banker. Inside, Melsa finds a diamond brooch and Mr. Lane's dead body. As she runs for help, her cloak falls off with the brooch inside it. When the police arrive, the body, cloak, and brooch are gone. Melsa and her friends are notorious pranksters, so the detective, Lieutenant Mike Brent (Levene), does nothing to investigate the murder. Ames writes an editorial decrying Melsa's "prank", and she sues him for libel.

Actors

Barbara Stanwyck

(Melsa Manton)Henry Fonda

(Peter Ames)Sam Levene

(Lieutenant Brent)Stanley Ridges

(Edward Norris)Hattie McDaniel

(Hilda)
And :
Whitney Bourne
James Burke
Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961)
Penny Singleton
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