The Mad Miss Manton

Melsa Manton (Stanwyck) is hardly mad, in the insane sense of the word. Rather, she is a madcap heiress, given to outrageousness, who finds a corpse on a street late one night. However, the corpse vanishes before the cops arrive. Like so many Nancy Drews, Miss Manton and a crew of her feather-headed debutante pals become amateur detectives and search for the villain. Peter Ames (Fonda), a newspaperman, suspects that the whole thing is just one more of the mad Miss Manton's hoaxes, but later he joins the cadre of cuties to help solve the case. A screwball comedy with a whodunit twist, THE MAD MISS MANTON benefits from a witty script but is hindered by its resemblanc...