The Girl from Manhattan
Cast & Crew
Alfred E. Green
Dorothy Lamour
George Montgomery
Charles Laughton
Ernest Truex
Hugh Herbert
Film Details
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Synopsis
Former Yale All-American fullback Tom Walker gave up his football career to become a reverend and now returns to his hometown of Pittsfield in order to start his career under the guidance of his late father's close friend, the bishop. At the same time, Tom's former sweetheart, Carol Maynard, now a famous Manhattan model, visits Pittsfield to spend her vacation with her uncle, Homer Purdy. Though she has been sending Homer money to pay off the mortgage on his boardinghouse, it soon becomes obvious that the money has only been used to support the array of lovable crackpots who live there. When Tom rents one of Homer's rooms, he and Carol quickly rekindle their romance. Soon, Tom learns that Wilbur J. Birch, the lay church leader, is selling the old church property and plans to donate the piece of land on which Homer's boardinghouse stands for the new church. Knowing that this will mean the foreclosure of Homer's house, Tom cannot bring himself to tell Carol. Eventually, however, Carol finds out, and though Homer claims to have faith that his rich friend, Jim Allison, will help him out, he soon collapses under the strain. That night, Tom is reinvigorated when he hears his father's voice challenging him to solve the problem. The next day, Carol, who mistrusts Tom, receives the $3,000 they need for the mortgage payment, and Homer, assuming that Allison has helped them, recuperates. Birch refuses to take her money, however, and Carol is about to give up when hotelier Mr. Bernouti arrives and reveals Birch's plan to make a hefty profit from the sale of the old church land as the hotel site. Carol realizes Tom is guiltless and rushes to Birch's office to let him know she will ruin his reputation if he refuses to rescind his plan. Birch agrees, and soon after, Allison tells them he did not send the money. Realizing that Tom had secretly given them his savings, Carol accepts his marriage proposal.
Director
Alfred E. Green
Cast
Dorothy Lamour
George Montgomery
Charles Laughton
Ernest Truex
Hugh Herbert
Constance Collier
William Frawley
Sara Allgood
Frank Orth
Howard Freeman
Raymond Largay
George Chandler
Selmar Jackson
Marie Blake
Adeline De Walt Reynolds
Maurice Cass
Eddy Waller
Crew
Benedict Bogeaus
Benedict Bogeaus
Lou Breslow
John Carter
David Chudnow
Robert Cowan
Howard Estabrook
Curt Fetters
Harold Godsoe
Greta
Doris M. Harris
Wally Heglin
Gene Hersh
Jack Herzberg
B. P. Jaques
Arthur M. Landau
Ernest Laszlo
Earl Moser
Robert Priestley
Jerome Pycha Jr.
Lewis J. Rachmil
Heinz Roemheld
James E. Smith
James Stacy
Frank Tanner
Lee Zavitz
Film Details
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Notes
Working titles for this film were All's Well That Ends Well and All's Well. Although the film was not viewed, credits were obtained from a cutting continuity deposited in copyright records. The Hollywood Reporter production chart includes Charles Winninger in the cast, but he was not in the final film. A March 1949 New York Times article states that the film came about because producer Benedict Bogeaus had an episode left over from his previous picture, On Our Merry Way, which involved the Charles Laughton character of the Bishop. Because that episode cost $200,000, Bogeaus hired writer Lou Breslow to use it as the basis of a new film.
