Man-Proof

Jan 7, 1938

1h 15m

★ 4.8

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?...if the man you loved and longed for married another woman!

Overview

A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Man-Proof Trailers

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Cast

Mimi Swift

Myrna Loy

Jimmy Kilmartin

Franchot Tone

Elizabeth Kent

Rosalind Russell

Alan Wythe

Walter Pidgeon

Meg Swift

Nana Bryant

Bob

Leonard Penn

Tommy Gaunt

John Miljan

Minister

William Stack

Gus the Bartender

Oscar O'Shea

Florence (dialogue scenes deleted)

Rita Johnson

Jane (dialogue scenes deleted)

Ruth Hussey

Hitchhiker (uncredited)

Harry Davenport

Belgrade in 1963. In a yard surrounded by buildings, a group of young people of different backgrounds and social status, but of similar views about love and self-affirmation, spend their time together. Their friendship is dyed with various events typical for socialism, such as working actions or Youth Day's parade. All what happens within this yard may become an allegory of one generation's destiny.

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