Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama
Release: 1934-05-04
·Runtime: 93m
·★ 7.0
Crime
Drama
Romance
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Cosmopolitan Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Frank Conroy
as Blackie's Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Don Brodie
as Reporter (uncredited)
Noel Madison
as Manny Arnold
Wade Boteler
as Prison Guard (uncredited)
Landers Stevens
as Inspector (uncredited)
Jack Kenney
as Policeman (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
as Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
as Black Man in Speakeasy (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
as Detective in Court (uncredited)
Nat Pendleton
as Spud
Pete Smith
as Racetrack Announcer (Voice) (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
as Boat Passenger (uncredited)
Oscar Apfel
as Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
Mickey Rooney
as Blackie as a Boy
Tom McGuire
as Policeman in Court (uncredited)
George Sidney
as Poppa Rosen
Muriel Evans
as Tootsie Malone
Samuel S. Hinds
as Warden of Sing Sing (uncredited)
Al Thompson
as Street Spectator (uncredited)
Bert Sprotte
as German Note Holder (uncredited)
William Stack
as Judge (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
as Policeman (uncredited)
Stanley Taylor
as Police Intern (uncredited)
Clark Gable
as Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher
Isabelle Keith
as Miss Adams
Donald Haines
as Young Spud (uncredited)
Curtis Benton
as Announcer (uncredited)
John Bleifer
as Chauffeur (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
as Drunk (uncredited)
John Marston
as Mr. Coates (uncredited)
Leo Carrillo
as Father Joe
Jimmy Butler
as Jim Wade as a Boy
William Bailey
as Al Barnes (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
as Otto (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
as Boat Passenger (uncredited)
William Powell
as Jim Wade
Shirley Ross
as Singer in Cotton Club
Leonid Kinskey
as Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
as Uncle Angus (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins
as Killer in Prison (uncredited)
George Irving
as Jim's Campaign Manager (uncredited)
William Irving
as German Note Holder (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
as Bailiff (uncredited)
Sam McDaniel
as Black Prisoner on Death Row (uncredited)
Thomas E. Jackson
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow
Lew Harvey
as Craps Dealer (uncredited)
Myrna Loy
as Eleanor Packer
Isabel Jewell
as Annabelle
Edward Van Sloan
as Yacht Captain Swenson (uncredited)
Crew
W.S. Van Dyke
Director
David O. Selznick
Producer
James Wong Howe
Director of Photography
Donald Ogden Stewart
Screenplay
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenplay
Lorenz Hart
Songs
Douglas Shearer
Sound Director
Edwin B. Willis
Art Direction
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Slavko Vorkapich
Special Effects
Richard Rodgers
Songs