The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Out of the social register and into the police blotter!
80 min
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she and her group of friends prove them wrong.
- Release date
- October 21, 1938
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Roy Webb
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Cast
- Barbara Stanwyck as Melsa Manton
- Henry Fonda as Peter Ames
- Sam Levene as Lieutenant Brent
- Frances Mercer as Helen Frayne
- Stanley Ridges as Edward Norris
- Whitney Bourne as Pat James
- Vickie Lester as Kit Beverly
- Ann Evers as Lee Wilson
- Linda Perry as Myra Frost
- Eleanor Hansen as Jane
- Hattie McDaniel as Hilda
- James Burke as Sullivan
- Paul Guilfoyle as Bat Regan
- Penny Singleton as Frances Glesk
- Leona Maricle as Sheila Lane
- Kay Sutton as Gloria Hamilton
- Miles Mander as Fred Thomas
- John Qualen as Night Watchman at Subway Construction Site
- Grady Sutton as Secretary to District Attorney
- Olin Howland as Mr. X, the Safecracker
- Irving Bacon as Spangler, the Process Server (uncredited)
- Harry A. Bailey as Booking Sergeant (uncredited)
- Ed Brady as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- Lynton Brent as Clerk (uncredited)
- John Butler as Waiter (uncredited)
- James Carlisle as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- Eddy Chandler as Detective with Machine Gun (uncredited)
- Catherine O'Quinn as Dora Fenton
Crew
- Leigh Jason · Director
- Philip G. Epstein · Writer
- Wilson Collison · Writer
- Roy Webb · Composer
- Nicholas Musuraca · Cinematographer
- George Hively · Editor