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The Mad Miss Manton is a 1938 American screwball comedy and mystery film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Barbara Stanwyck as fun-loving socialite Melsa Manton and Henry Fonda as newspaper editor Peter Ames. Melsa and her debutante friends hunt for a murderer while eating bonbons, flirting with Ames, and otherwise behaving like silly young women. Ames is also after the murderer, as well as Melsa's hand in marriage.
This was the first of three screen pairings for Stanwyck and Fonda, the others being The Lady Eve and You Belong to Me.
Original Release
10/08/1938
US Release
10/08/1938
Cast
Directors
Writers
Philip G. Epstein, Arthur Kober, Wilson Collison, Fred F. Finklehoffe, John Monks Jr., Hal Yates
