6.8 /10 1 Votes
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Story by Roy Chanslor Production
company Warner Bros. Pictures Director Mervyn LeRoy Production company Warner Bros. | 6.8/10 IMDb Produced by Robert Presnell Sr. Music by Bernhard Kaun Initial release 1934 Music director Bernhard Kaun Cast Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Paul Muni
Glenda Farrell Written by Roy Chanslor, Sidney Sutherland Similar Paul Muni movies, Movies about newspapers, Journalism movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hi, Nellie! is a 1934 American crime drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell. A newspaper editor is demoted to writing an advice column for refusing to go along with the crowd in declaring a missing lawyer a thief.
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Plot
Newspaper editor Brad (Paul Muni) learns that the head of the governor's investigating committee, Frank J. Canfield, has disappeared, along with a large sum of money. He refuses to print the story on the front page of the newspaper, because there is no proof that Frank J. Canfield, a honest and prominent lawyer, fled with the missing funds. When every other newspaper in the city features the story, the newspaper's owner, Graham (Berton Churchill), reprimands Brad for the missing story and fires him. Brad says that his contract does not allow him to be fired, so Graham decides to keep him on the staff as the writer of the lonely hearts column.
Brad is furious, but has no choice but to accepted the position. He also decides to keep an eye on the Frank J. Canfield story. The current writer of the column, Gerry (Glenda Farrell), who herself was demoted to the position by Brad, is delighted by the news. When Gerry accuses him of having no guts because he cannot handle the job, Brad puts his skills to work, and the column becomes very popular.
One day, Rosa Marinello comes to the newspaper's office, looking for Nellie Nelson, Brad's pseudonym for the column. She ask Nellie to intervene on her behalf, because her undertaker father no longer wants her to marry her fiancé. When Brad learns that Canfield was last seen at the same address where Rosa lives, he agrees to go. Brad finds out that gangster Brownell (Robert Barrat) attended a funeral around the time of Canfield's disappearance. Brad later discovers that Canfield was framed and murdered by his rival. Brad advises Brownell to dig up Canfield's body and transfer it to another grave, and gets a photograph of the body and takes it to his newspaper. Brownell is arrested and tried for murder. Canfield is cleared, and Brad is reinstated as the newspaper's editor.
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Preservation status
A copy of the film is preserved by the Library of Congress.