THE MAD MISS MANTON Stanwyck
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A cut above "The Lady Eve."
Select scenes from an amusing screwball comedy/murder mystery pitting a rich, snooping socialite ("Melsa Manton"/Barbara Stanwyck) against a persistent investigative newspaper editor ("Peter Ames"/Henry Fonda) and the local police force (headed by dyspeptic "Lt. Brent"/Sam Levene).
Three years after filming "The Mad Miss Manton" (1938) at RKO, Stanwyck and Fonda were re-teamed for Preston Sturges's "The Lady Eve" at Paramount. Although more famous, I think the latter film has a comedy value more apparent than real, its critical reputation bloated beyond its true merit. "Eve"'s pacing is sluggish and its subvertive screenplay is also "submergible," only occasionally surfacing to sparkle thanks to the acting gifts of the two leads. Not that "Manton" is a masterpiece; however it is well-paced, well-photographed, fun in its own right, and funnier than "Eve."
Although--according to author Ella Smith's definitive film biography "Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck"--Fonda hated his role and ignored Stanwyck on the "Manton" set, he still manages to invest likeable "Peter Ames" with energy, humor, and conviction. Stanwyck's "Melsa" glows: alternately, she is giddy, arch, bustling, purposeful, shrewd, rash, and singularly ravishing. Never anything less than an excellent performance—in "Manton" and in every film in which she appeared—from the finest film actress in Hollywood history.
Stanwyck and Fonda also appeared together in the somewhat farcical 1941 film "You Belong to Me."
Video music: the songs "oooOO-Oh Boom!" and "Ti-Pi-Tin." Both recorded in 1938 in New York City by the Benny Goodman Orchestra featuring the gloriously "Liltin Miss" Martha Tilton.
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VIDEO DEDICATED TO THE MEMORIES OF BARBARA STANWYCK AND MARTHA TILTON: THE BEST. |
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