The Man I Love

About The Man I Love

Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, a formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls hard for him.

The Man I Love (1946) is a music film directed by Raoul Walsh. It runs 96 minutes and was released in December 1946.

The film is filed under nightclub singer and new york city.

Ida Lupino appears as Petey Brown, Robert Alda as Nicky Toresca, Andrea King as Sally Otis, and Martha Vickers as Virginia 'Ginny' Brown. The screenplay is by Catherine Turney.

Guys and Dolls and Romance on the High Seas make useful companions to The Man I Love. It carries a NR rating.