What a Man! (Monogram) (1944)

ADVERTISING + PUBLICITY + EXPLOITATION /oz THE CAST Henry Burrows......... ents weir JOHNNY DOWNS Joan ‘Rankin: 3.6 222o.-: ....... WANDA McKA Doctor oka JOHN INCE Porsotis: berks ....1. STANFORD JOLLEY Boyle..... JACK GARDNER CREDITS Produced by BARNEY A. SARECKY Directed by WILLIAM BEAUDINE Original Screenplay WILLIAM X. CROWLEY and BERYL SACHS Sound GLEN GLENN Photography MARCEL ‘LE PICARD Film Editor CARL HIMM WAT AMA A MONOGRAM PICTURE with JOHNNY DOWNS WANDA McKAY ROBERT KENT Produced by Barney A. Sarecky Heres the Story {Not for Publication) Henry Burrows, timid white collar worker for the firm of Rankin & Phillips, finds an uninvited tenant in his bachelor home when he discovers Joan, who has taken refuge there. He also becomes involved with the police when a gangster is killed on his doorstep. The police tell Henry that the gangster's moll has escaped. Joan, wanting to stay at Henry's, feigns illness, and when Henry calls the doctor the latter assumes that Joan is his wife, later spreading the news at the office when they call to check on the reason Henry has not put in an appearance. The firm is undergoing an investigation, and Henry has previously submitted a certain plan to reorganize it, but the plan was turned down. When the investigators come in they oust the old manager, approve of Henry's new plan, and make him the manager. In the meantime he has fallen very much in love with Joan, but still doesn’t really know who she is, although he thinks she is the gangster’s moll. He arrives home jubilant after his appointment as manager, to find Joan gone. At the same time a story appears in the papers that the gangster’s moll has been apprehended. Henry goes to the jail only to discover that Joan and the gangster's moll are not the same girl. He tries to locate Joan, but fails until one day Mr. Rankin visits him, and reveals that Joan is his daughter; that she had taken refuge in Henry's home because of the difficulties at the firm's office; and that she was holding papers which some men in the firm wanted to destroy. Now that the situation is straightened out, Henry soon afterward proposes to Joan, and is accepted. BANK ON MONOGRAM Running Time Footage M.P. PB. DD ACNe Directed by William Beaudine 67 minutes 6008 feet 9773 Comedy Due Here (Advance) Hailed as one of the gayest, funniest comedy-dramas of the season, Monogram’s film, “What A Man!” is scheduled to open ........ at the FeneEe Nate theatre, Heading the cast are .ohnny Downs and Wanda McKay, who meet under rather strange circumstances when Downs, a timid white collar worker, returns to his bachelor apartment one evening to discover the charming Miss McKay an uninvited tenant in his small quarters. The girl feigns illness to make sure she is not thrown out, and when Downs runs for a doctor he is implicated in the murder: of a gangster on his doorstep. Police say the gangster’s moll has escaped. In addition to this, Downs becomes implicated in a financial scandal at the office, and eventually falls in love with the blonde, whom he believes to be the gangster’s accomplice. Aside from these entanglements, and being forced to sleep -In a chair, everything is normal for bewildered Downs. The plot proceeds to a laughable climax, however, presenting some very amusing surprises. The film was produced for Monogram by Barney A. Sarecky, and was directed by William Beaudine from an_ original screenplay by William X. Crowley and Beryl Sachs. The supporting cast is headed by Robert Kent, Etta McDaniels, Harry Holman, Lillian Bronson. Wheeler Oakman, and John Ince. Photography was handled by Marcel LePicard.