Manhattan Angel is a 1949 American comedy musical film directed by Arthur Dreifuss and starring Gloria Jean, Patricia Barry and Thurston Hall.
It was originally called Sweetheart of the Blues."Beckett Goes Romantic; Miller Duties Doubled" Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 4 Mar 1948: 23. It was made after I Surrender Dear."Pretty Little Gloria Jean Blossoms Out as Player of Important Adult Roles" Scott, John L. Los Angeles Times 28 Mar 1948: C1
Plot Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new skyscraper in Manhattan. Gloria enters a friend in a beauty contest with a $25,000 first prize and, after some iffy-maneuvering, her friend wins the contest and the money goes to preserving the youth center.
Cast Gloria Jean as Gloria Cole Ross Ford as Eddie Swenson Patricia Barry as Maggie Graham (as Patricia White) Thurston Hall as Everett H. Burton Alice Tyrrell as Queenie Walters Benny Baker as Aloysius Duff Russell Hicks as J.C. Rayland Fay Baker as Vi Langdon Jimmy Lloyd as Elmer Toni Harper as Toni The Sweetheart Choristers as Singers
See also List of American films of 1949
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