Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 crime melodrama movie directed by W. S. Van Dyke and distributed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company. The film won screenwriter Arthur Caesar an Academy Award for Best Story.
Cast
- Clark Gable as Blackie Gallagher
- William Powell as Jim Wade
- Myrna Loy as Eleanor
- Mickey Rooney as the Young Blackie Gallagher
- Jimmy Butler as the Young Jim Wade
Manhattan Melodrama Media
The crowd at Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, shortly after John Dillinger was killed there by law enforcement officers.
