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Manhattan Cocktail, the 1928 Dorothy Arzner New York City Broadway stage acting romantic love triangle melodrama ("Hotter'N hot! Newer'n new! A sparkling, sizzling drama of backstage!"; "Mix a beautiful girl with two men --- one good -- one rich -- add Broadway's gaieties, heartaches, temptations -- plus a struggle for Fame.......and you have a tingling 'Manhattan Cocktail'"; "Story by Ernst Vajda"; about a beautiful married small town girl who moves to New York City with her husband, and they get entangled with many New York people, and after many misadventures that result in her husband's death, she moves back to her small hometown, with her old sweetheart, who is a professor there) starring Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Paul Lukas, Lilyan Tashman, and Danny O'Shea. Like most of director Arzner's movies, this one dealt with a very independent woman who "goes her own way" in life! Also note that Dorothy Arzner was a director from the 1920s to the 1940s, and she was the only woman director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood ('20s to '40s) and she was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America. Arzner was a lesbian at a time when almost no females openly were, and she was surprisingly open about it, often dressing in "men's clothes" and wearing her hair short. She made many "women's movies" and movies with a "feminist" theme. After making "First Comes Courage" in 1943, she made training films for the U.S. Army WACs, and she never returned to making Hollywood movies, becoming a film teacher of directing and screenwriting, teaching at UCLA until her passing in 1979. Also, note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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