---
title: 'Tales of Manhattan (1942)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Julien Duvivier'
released: '1942-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 118
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/tales-of-manhattan-1942'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035415/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Tales of Manhattan (1942)

1942 · 118 min · Drama, Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

Tales of Manhattan is a 1942 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier. Thirteen writers, including Ben Hecht, Alan Campbell, Ferenc Molnár, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Donald Ogden Stewart, worked on the six stories in this film. Based on the Mexican writer Francisco Rojas González's novel, Historia de un frac, which he was not credited for, the stories follow a black formal tailcoat cursed by a cutter as it goes from owner to owner, in five otherwise unconnected stories.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Julien Duvivier](https://cinepixo.com/people/julien-duvivier)
- **Screenplay:** [Buster Keaton](https://cinepixo.com/people/buster-keaton), [Ben Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hecht), [Ferenc Molnár](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferenc-molnar), [Samuel Hoffenstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-hoffenstein), [Donald Ogden Stewart](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-ogden-stewart), [Ladislas Fodor](https://cinepixo.com/people/ladislas-fodor), [Lamar Trotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/lamar-trotti), [Alan Campbell](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-campbell-2), [László Görög](https://cinepixo.com/people/laszlo-gorog), [William Morrow](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-morrow)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Sol Kaplan](https://cinepixo.com/people/sol-kaplan)

## Cast

- [Ellinor Vanderveer](https://cinepixo.com/people/ellinor-vanderveer)
- [Harry Davenport](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-davenport)
- [Charles Boyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-boyer)
- [Will Wright](https://cinepixo.com/people/will-wright)
- [Helene Whitney](https://cinepixo.com/people/helene-whitney)
- [Morris Ankrum](https://cinepixo.com/people/morris-ankrum)
- [Harold Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-miller)
- [Charles Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-williams-3)
- [Eddie "Rochester" Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-rochester-anderson)
- [Eugene Pallette](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugene-pallette)
- [Adeline De Walt Reynolds](https://cinepixo.com/people/adeline-de-walt-reynolds)
- [Thomas Mitchell](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-mitchell)
- [Harry Hayden](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-hayden)
- [Sig Arno](https://cinepixo.com/people/sig-arno)
- [Edgar Norton](https://cinepixo.com/people/edgar-norton)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/tales-of-manhattan-1942
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