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Tales of Manhattan is an enjoyable, if sometimes anachronistic collection of stories of life (mainly of the upper class) in Manhattan in the early 1960s and earlier. The book is divided into three sections: Memories of an Auctioneer, Arnold & Degener, One Chase Manhattan Plaza and The Matrons.
- Louis Auchincloss
Jun 9, 2017 · Tales of Manhattan (1942) is a classic Hollywood “omnibus film” (aka “anthology film”) that features a vast range of famous movie stars and whose episodes were scripted by seventeen writers (including an uncredited Buster Keaton ). Although the original narrative idea of the film was based on Mexican writer Francisco Rojas González's ...
Noone seems to evoke a time, or a way of life quite as effortlessly as Louis Auchincloss. Tales of Manhattan differs from some of the earlier Auchincloss books I've read in that the characters have crept into the 1960's and as they tell their tales they compare the contemporary men and mores with post WW2 New Yorkers.
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.
Tales of Manhattan. A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way. 145 IMDb 7.3 2 h 2 min 1942. 13+.
Allen makes no effort to coordinate the image to its rhythm. Only in the final moments do sound and image comes together: Fireworks burst over the Manhattan skyline and Gershwin’s music explodes into a crescendo of clashing cymbals and pounding drumbeats. In an oft-cited passage from America, Jean Baudrillard argues that in a European city ...
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