

Manhattan Melodrama
"RECKLESS with WOMEN...He pursued them ..."petted" them...promised them nothing and got away with everything!"
Overview
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Movie Details
Languages
English
Studio
Cosmopolitan Productions
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Key Crew

W.S. Van Dyke
Director

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenplay

David O. Selznick
Producer

Donald Ogden Stewart
Screenplay
Cast

Clark Gable
Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher

William Powell
Jim Wade

Myrna Loy
Eleanor Packer

Leo Carrillo
Father Joe

Nat Pendleton
Spud

George Sidney
Poppa Rosen

Isabel Jewell
Annabelle

Muriel Evans
Tootsie Malone

Thomas E. Jackson
Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow

Isabelle Keith
Miss Adams

Noel Madison
Manny Arnold

Jimmy Butler
Jim Wade as a Boy

Mickey Rooney
Blackie as a Boy

Shirley Ross
Singer in Cotton Club

Donald Haines
Young Spud (uncredited)

Frank Conroy
Blackie's Defense Attorney (uncredited)

Leonid Kinskey
Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen

Oscar Apfel
Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)

William Bailey
Al Barnes (uncredited)

Curtis Benton
Announcer (uncredited)