Kay Francis
Lois Ames
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Running time. 63 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Man Wanted is a pre-Code 1932 romance film starring Kay Francis as a married magazine editor who hires a handsome secretary, David Manners. The film features Una Merkel and Andy Devine in supporting roles.
Man Wanted: Directed by William Dieterle. With Kay Francis, David Manners, Una Merkel, Andy Devine. A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
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- Romance, Comedy, Drama
- William Dieterle
- 1932-04-23
"Pre-Code" is commonly understood to mean "loose women", but that's just one aspect of this unique period in American moviemaking. Sexual power was just one kind of power female characters wielded in Pre-Code movies like Man Wanted (1932), where powerful magazine editor Lois Ames (Kay Francis) revels in the phone calls and high stakes decisions at the top: "It's all part of the game.
- William Dieterle
- Kay Francis
Since Chatterton was the most established star at the studio—being paid $8,000 weekly—she was cast in the film, retitled The Rich Are Always With Us (1932). To satisfy Kay, Zanuck purchased Robert Lord’s Dangerous Brunette—retitled Man Wanted—with only Kay in mind.
Mr. Walters, French & Sprague Manager. Robert Greig. ... Harper (scenes deleted) Frank Coghlan Jr. ... Youngster in Store (as Junior Coghlan) Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Jack Chefe.
Synopsis, historical analysis, personnel profiles, contemporary reviews, and discussion of the film Man Wanted, released in 1932 by Warner Bros., starring Kay Francis, David Manners, Una Merkel, Andy Devine, and Kenneth Thompson, and directed by William Dieterle.
In her first film under contract to Warner Bros., Kay Francis plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband Fred (Kenneth Thomson) is too busy with his polo friends to pay her much attention. But when her secretary (Charlotte Merriam) suddenly leaves, Lois hires handsome Tom Sheridan (David Manners), who has arrived to demonstrate a new ...
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