Manhattan Melodrama
“RECKLESS with WOMEN...He pursued them ..."petted" them...promised them nothing and got away with everything!”
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.
- Director
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Writers
- Oliver H.P. Garrett, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Status
- Released
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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)
