The Mad Miss Manton

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The Mad Miss Manton is a 1938 American screwball comedy and mystery film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Barbara Stanwyck as fun-loving socialite Melsa Manton and Henry Fonda as newspaper editor Peter Ames. Melsa and her debutante friends hunt...read more

The Mad Miss Manton is a 1938 American screwball comedy and mystery film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Barbara Stanwyck as fun-loving socialite Melsa Manton and Henry Fonda as newspaper editor Peter Ames. Melsa and her debutante friends hunt for a murderer while eating bonbons, flirting with Ames, and otherwise behaving like silly young women. Ames is also after the murderer, as well as Melsa's hand in marriage. This was the first of three screen pairings for Stanwyck and Fonda, the others being The Lady Eve and You Belong to Me.

Original Release

10/08/1938

US Release

10/08/1938

Cast

(see additional cast & crew)

Directors

Leigh Jason

Writers

Philip G. Epstein, Wilson Collison, Fred F. Finklehoffe, Arthur Kober, John Monks Jr., Hal Yates

Cast

Producers

Editors

George Hively

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