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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 Brothers, the film is based on the novel Night Shift by Maritta M. Wolff.
The Man I Love: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers. A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast.
Man I Love, The - (Original Trailer)Night-club singer Ida Lupino gets involved with mobster Robert Alda in Raoul Walsh's The Man I Love (1947). Based on the novel Night Shift by Maritta Wolff (New York, 1942).
The Man I love (1947) is not the most classifiable of film noir productions from the 1940s but it does say plenty about the style and the era. It's also potentially a rare film noir in that it attempts to close in on the female experience of family life, dating, night life and petty criminality.
The Man I Love is directed by Raoul Walsh and adapted to screenplay by Jo Pagano and Catherine Turney from Maritta M. Wolff's novel. It stars Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale and Dolores Moran. Cinematography is by Sidney Hickox.
The Man I Love (1947) In Raoul Walsh's forgotten, noirish melodramatic soap opera (a classic 'women's picture'), and dramatic character study - a tale of regret, damaged romance and unhappiness:
Visiting her two sisters and brother, singer Petey Brown lands a job at small-time-hood Nicky Toresca’s nightclub. While evading the sleazy Toresca’s heavy-handed passes at her, she falls in love with down-and-out ex-jazz pianist Sand Thomas, who has never quite recovered from an old divorce.
