The last time I saw Norman Foster in a movie he was beating his wife ("Under Eighteen" (1931)). In "Young Man of Manhattan" (YMoM) he cheated on his wife. Don't worry, both marriages worked out. What's beating and cheating between man and wife?
YMoM looked like it was going to be a basic romance in which one or both partners have an affair, or a relationship that could be misunderstood as an affair, then they'd have a reason to get back together, forgive each other, and live happily ever after.
It was still kind of like that with a little wrinkle in it just to be different and/or dramatic.
Toby McLean (Norman Foster) was a sports writer who married Ann Vaughn (Claudette Colbert), also a journalist. It was your typical 1930's-- "I'm going to marry you someday" after the first meeting type of romance.
Problems arose when Ann got a job working for Dwight Knowles (Leslie Austin). Rightly, Toby was upset that she had to have dinner with the guy for work and other social engagements. There were also problems when Toby unwisely had a sixteen-year-old girl named Puff Randolph (Ginger Rogers) over his house. Even though Ann insisted that Toby hang out with women even after they were married, she didn't like him being with the flirtatious teenager.
YMoM was fairly tame. I'm not a fan of relationship drama anyway, so I wasn't the target audience. I think by 1930 they had already explored all the ways in which couples can be unfaithful or have their fidelity tested and reunite.
Free on Internet Archive.
YMoM looked like it was going to be a basic romance in which one or both partners have an affair, or a relationship that could be misunderstood as an affair, then they'd have a reason to get back together, forgive each other, and live happily ever after.
It was still kind of like that with a little wrinkle in it just to be different and/or dramatic.
Toby McLean (Norman Foster) was a sports writer who married Ann Vaughn (Claudette Colbert), also a journalist. It was your typical 1930's-- "I'm going to marry you someday" after the first meeting type of romance.
Problems arose when Ann got a job working for Dwight Knowles (Leslie Austin). Rightly, Toby was upset that she had to have dinner with the guy for work and other social engagements. There were also problems when Toby unwisely had a sixteen-year-old girl named Puff Randolph (Ginger Rogers) over his house. Even though Ann insisted that Toby hang out with women even after they were married, she didn't like him being with the flirtatious teenager.
YMoM was fairly tame. I'm not a fan of relationship drama anyway, so I wasn't the target audience. I think by 1930 they had already explored all the ways in which couples can be unfaithful or have their fidelity tested and reunite.
Free on Internet Archive.