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