The Man I Love

The Man I Love (1946)

There should be a law against knowing the things I found out about men!

Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, a formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls hard for him.

Date of release
1946-12-26
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Music
Director
Raoul Walsh

Casting

Interesting facts

The Man I Love is a 1947 American film noir melodrama directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King and Bruce Bennett. Produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film is based on the novel Night Shift by Maritta M. Wolff. The title is taken from the George and Ira Gershwin song "The Man I Love", which is prominently featured.

Production and reception

Warner Bros. purchased the rights to Maritta Wolff's novel Night Shift in 1942 for $25,000, with the original intention of casting Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart in the film adaptation. Working titles for the film were Night Shift and Why Was I Born?, the latter a 1929 song by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II which featured in the movie.

In a contemporary review in The New York Times Bosley Crowther characterized the film's mood as "both silly and depressing, not to mention dull".

When the movie started being distributed on television in 1956, 6 minutes were cut that were present in the original theatrically released version in order to avoid paying licensing costs for the 1929 song, "Bill", featured within the sequence. Until the 2024 Blu-ray release from Warner Archive, the 90-minute cut was what was distributed on home video and television.

The Man I Love later became Martin Scorsese's primary inspiration for his film New York, New York (1977).

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