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Original title

New York Town

Year

1941

Running time

94 min.

Country

United States

Director

Charles Vidor

Screenwriter

Lewis Meltzer. Plot: Jo Swerling

Cast

Music

Leo Shuken

Cinematography

Charles Edgar Schoenbaum (B&W)

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Comedy

Synopsis

Victor Ballard (Fred MacMurray) is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski (Akim Tamiroff). When Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis (Mary Martin), he realizes she is desperate and in need of a friend who can guide her through the ways and means of surviving in Manhattan with no money. Alexandra moves in as a third roommate and helps out with Victor's street photography Victoria attempts to help her by getting her hooked up with a rich Park Avenue swell, but Alexandra accidentally meets his handsome son, Paul Bryson Jr. (Robert Preston) instead, and Victor, to his own surprise, becomes jealous. Before Victor and Alexandra come together as a couple, there are (of course) further misunderstandings and fisticuffs and the like...

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New York Town

1941

Charles Vidor