New York Town

New York Town is a 1941 romantic comedy film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Akim Tamiroff and Robert Preston. The film was written by Lewis Meltzer and an uncredited Preston Sturges based on a story by Jo Swerling.

Victor Ballard Fred MacMurray is a poor but happygolucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski Akim Tamiroff. When Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis Mary Martin, he realizes she is desperate and in need of a friend who can guide her through the ways and means of surviving in Manhattan with no money. Alexandra moves in as a third roommate and helps out with Victors street photography Victoria attempts to help her by getting her hooked up with a rich Park Avenue swell, but Alexandra accidentally meets his handsome son, Paul Bryson Jr. Robert Preston instead, and Victor, to his own surprise, becomes jealous. Before Victor and Alexandra come together as a couple, there are of course further misunderstandings and fisticuffs and the like.New York Town, based on the story, Night Time by Jo Swerling, was originally to have been directed by Mitchell Leisen, but when he was assigned to do I Wanted Wings, Charles Vidor was borrowed from Columbia. ........

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