Manhattan Angel (1948)
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A rapidly maturing Gloria Jean is the star of the Columbia musical Manhattan Angel. She's cast at Madison Avenue copywriter Gloria Cole, at present striving to save a youth center for underprivileged children from being demolished to make way for a factory. Complications arise when Everett H. Burton (Thurston Hall), the elderly and irascible tycoon responsible for the factory project, develops a crush on our heroine. Ross Ford, later steadily employed as a TV and movie character actor, is the film's nominal leading man. Among the songs heard in Manhattan Angel is "I'll Take Romance," one of a handful of hit tunes owned outright by Columbia and thus royalty-free for "B"-movie redeployment. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Gloria Jean - Gloria Cole
- Thurston Hall - Everett H. Burton
- Russell Hicks - J.C. Rayland
- Jimmy Lloyd - Elmer
- Leonard Sues - Lester
- Dorothy Vaughan - Mrs. Cole
- Peggy Wynne - Esther
- Ida Moore - Priscilla Lund
- Patricia White - Maggie Graham
- Ross Ford - Eddie Swenson
- Ben Baker - Aloysius Duff
- Fay Baker - Vi Langdon
- Toni Harper - Toni
- Ralph Hodges - Harry
- Isabel Withers - Miss Shelton
- Barbara Brier - Virginia Schuyler
- Robert Cherry - Gus Davis
- Alice Tyrrell - "Queenie" Walters
- Director(s):
- Arthur Dreifuss
- Producer(s):
- Sam Katzman
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