The Man I Love (1929)
What would you do for the one you love?
Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress Olga Baclanova (Freaks) on the eve of the big fight.
- Date of release
- 1929-05-25
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Action, Comedy
- Director
- William A. Wellman
Casting
- Richard Arlen — Joe "Dum-Dum" Brooks
- Mary Brian — Celia Fields
- Olga Baclanova — Sonia Barondoff
- Harry Green — Curly Bloom
- Jack Oakie — Lew Layton
- Pat O'Malley — D.J. McCarthy
- Leslie Fenton — Carlo Vesper
- Charles Sullivan — Champ Mahoney
- Sailor Vincent — K.O. O'Hearn
- Bob Perry — Gateman
Interesting facts
The Man I Love (1929) is a part-talking sound film from Paramount Pictures produced in parallel silent and sound versions. This film survives in a copy sold to television in the 1950s. The film stars Richard Arlen. Some sources refer to this as Arlen's first sound film, but he co-starred with Nancy Carroll in Dorothy Arzner's Manhattan Cocktail (1928), another part-talking picture released by Paramount.
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