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The Mad Miss Manton

1938, Movie, NR, 65 mins

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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 h... read more leave a comment
A daffy socialite (Barbara Stanwyck) gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation in The Mad Miss Manton (1938).
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Posted: 8/1/2008
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
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Posted: 7/28/2009
Year: 1938
Rated NR

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Cast
Barbara Stanwyck: Melsa Manton
Henry Fonda: Peter Ames
Sam Levene: Lt. Mike Brent
Frances Mercer: Helen Frayne
Stanley Ridges: Eddie Norris
Whitney Bourne: Pat James

 

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