New York Town

Komedie, USA, 1941, 94 min.



Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide. One day while hawking his work on Fifth Avenue, Victor snaps a picture of recently impoverished Alexandra Curtis, and intuits that she is desperate and naďve. Victor befriends Alexandra and shares with her his tricks for survival, such as getting meals by eating free food samples in a market, and "crashing" shipboard parties before the ship leaves. Victor brings Alexandra home as a third roommate, and proposes that she become a salesman for his photo "business," which involves taking a photo of a passerby on the street, getting his name and address, then going to the pedestrian's home and selling him either an enlarged photo for five dollars, or an oil painting of the photo by Steve for fifty dollars. In order to get Alexandra's belongings out of hock, Victor and Steve take her to a radio broadcast of a quiz show that gives cash prizes. Alexandra becomes a contestant after the first contestant faints, and she wins sixty-four dollars with a little coaching from Victor. Victor and Steve's friend Sam, meanwhile, a legless veteran who sells pencils on the street, uses his military pension to hire Bender, a lawyer, to get Steve citizenship. Bender's advice, however, is that Steve get a position at a university. Alexandra becomes depressed when she is unable to sell any paintings, and in order to cheer her up, Victor takes her out for a night of fun, during which they crash a private party on a cruise ship before it sails for Rio de Janeiro. Victor decides that Alexandra's best "career" would be marriage, and the next day, he insists that she try to sell a painting to his most wealthy client, Paul Bryson. Alexandra resents Victor's practical suggestion, as she wants to marry for love, but she goes to Bryson's Park Avenue home anyway. Alexandra is delighted when she meets Bryson's handsome son, also named Paul, and learns that Bryson, Sr., is on his honeymoon. Alexandra and Paul hit it off, and to his own surprise, Victor becomes jealous. Victor's pride is then hurt when Paul gets Steve an interview with the dean of a university, and Steve is hired. When Paul casually proposes to Alexandra as they plan a vacation together, she admits that she is a gold digger, but Paul is undisturbed. Victor, meanwhile, gets drunk while celebrating Steve's good fortune, and then goes to Paul's house. After telling him that Alexandra has been living with him, Victor hits Paul. A fistfight ensues, but on the way home, Alexandra and Victor admit their love for each other and kiss.
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