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Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 American pre-Code crime drama film, produced by MGM and directed by W. S. Van Dyke, that stars Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy. The movie also provided one of Mickey Rooney's earliest film roles. The film is based on a story by Arthur Caesar, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Story. It was also the first of Myrna Loy and William Powell's fourteen screen pairings.
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A film can become famous for the wrong reasons. Those reasons often have nothing to do with authors’ intentions and sometimes even less to do with what the audience was able to see on the screen. An example can be found in *Manhattan Melodrama*, 1934 crime drama directed by W. S. Van Dyke, a film that became one of the more (in)famous and controversial titles in history of 1930s Hollywood. The plot begins with a pro…More
