The Man I Love (1929) is a part-talking sound film from Paramount Pictures produced in parallel silent and sound versions. This film survives in a copy sold to television in the 1950s. The film stars Richard Arlen. Some sources refer to this as Arlen's first sound film, but he co-starred Nancy Carroll in Dorothy Arzner's Manhattan Cocktail (1928), another part-talking picture released by Paramount.
Plot
A prizefighter (Arlen) is struggling to be a champ and is in love with a good girl (Brian), but also involved with a society beauty (Baclanova) at the same time.
Cast
- Richard Arlen as Dum-Dum Brooks
- Mary Brian as Celia Fields
- Olga Baclanova as Sonia Barondoff
- Harry Green as Curly Bloom
- Jack Oakie as Lew Layton
- Pat O'Malley as D.J. McCarthy
- Leslie Fenton as Carlo Vesper
- Charles Sullivan as Champ Mahoney
Soundtrack
- "Celia" (music by Richard A. Whiting and lyrics by Leo Robin)
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
External links
- The Man I Love is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- The Man I Love at IMDb
- The Man I Love at the TCM Movie Database
- The Man I Love at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- The Man I Love AllMovie
- The Man I Love at SilentEra
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