''Manhattan Angel'' is a 1949 American

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starring

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. It was originally called ''Sweetheart of the Blues''. It was made after ''

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Plot

Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new skyscraper in Manhattan. Gloria enters a friend in a

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with a $25,000 first prize and, after some iffy-maneuvering, her friend wins the contest and the money goes to preserving the youth center.

Cast

as Gloria Cole * Ross Ford as Eddie Swenson *

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as Maggie Graham (as Patricia White) *

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as Everett H. Burton

References

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* 1949 films 1940s musical drama films American musical drama films Films about beauty pageants Columbia Pictures films American black-and-white films 1949 drama films Films with screenplays by George H. Plympton Films directed by Arthur Dreifuss 1940s American films {{musical-drama-film-stub