Child of Manhattan (film)

Child of Manhattan is a 1933 PreCode Columbia Pictures melodrama film based on the play Child of Manhattan by Preston Sturges, which was presented on Broadway in 1932. The film was directed by Edward Buzzell and written for the screen by Gertrude Purcell, and stars Nancy Carroll, star of musical comedies at Paramount, John Boles, and cowboy star Charles Buck Jones.

Taxi dancer Madeleine McGonegle Nancy Carroll attracts the attention of millionaire Paul Vanderkill John Boles, and when she becomes pregnant, they get married to avoid a scandal. When the baby dies at birth, Madeleine runs away to Mexico, to give Paul the divorce she thinks he wants. There, she meets Panama Canal Kelly cowboy star Buck Jones, an old friend who proposed to her before he went west. Undeterred by her recent past, he asks her again to get married, and she eventually agrees. When Paul discovers where she is, he shows up just as the couple is about to be wed. When Panama overhears Madeleine confess her love to Paul, he bows out of the picture.This film was in production fromNovember throughDecember 1932. The movie shot for two weeks with Neil Hamilton playing the part of Paul, before he was replaced by John Boles. ........

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