The Man I Love (1947 film)
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Country United States | 7/10 Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 11, 1947 (1947-01-11) (United States) Writer Catherine Turney (screenplay), Jo Pagano (adaptation), Catherine Turney (adaptation), Maritta M. Wolff (novel) Screenplay W. R. Burnett, Jo Pagano, Catherine Turney Cast (Petey Brown), (Nicky Toresca), (Sally Otis), (Virginia 'Ginny' Brown), (San Thomas), Alan Hale (Riley)Similar movies The Avengers , Captain America: The First Avenger , The Last Witch Hunter , Night on Earth , The Incredible Hulk , Bringing Out the Dead Tagline There should be a law against knowing the things I found out about men! |
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The Man I Love is a 1947 American film noir melodrama directed by Raoul Walsh, based on the novel Night Shift by Maritta M. Wolff, and starring Ida Lupino, Robert Alda and Bruce Bennett. The title is taken from the George and Ira Gershwin song "The Man I Love", which is prominently featured.
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The man i love
Plot

Homesick for her family in Los Angeles, lounge singer Petey Brown (Ida Lupino) decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Shortly she lands a job at the nightclub of small-time-hood Nicky Toresca (Robert Alda) where her sister Sally (Andrea King) is employed.

While evading the sleazy Toresca's heavy-handed passes, Petey falls in love with down-and-out ex-jazz pianist San Thomas (Bruce Bennett), who never recovered from an old divorce. Variously solving the problems of her sisters, brother and their next-door neighbor, the no-nonsense Petey must wait as San decides whether to start a new life with her or sign back on with a merchant steamer.
Production and reception

Warner Bros. purchased the rights to Maritta Wolff's novel in 1942 for $25,000, with the original intention of casting Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart in the film adaptation. Working titles for the film were Night Shift and Why Was I Born?, the latter a 1929 song by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II which featured in the movie. Production fell behind schedule because Lupino was suffering from exhaustion – she fainted during one scene with Robert Alda and had to be cut out of her tight-fitting dress – finishing 19 days late and $100,000 over budget.

Bosley Crowther, writing for The New York Times, considered the film's mood to be "both silly and depressing, not to mention dull".

The Man I Love later became Martin Scorsese's primary inspiration for his film New York, New York (1977).


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