So This Is New York
So This Is New York is a 1948 satirical movie comedy starring acerbic radio and television comedian Henry Morgan and directed by Richard Fleischer. The cynically sophisticated screenplay was written by Carl Foreman and Herbert Baker from the 1920 novel The Big Town by Ring Lardner. Foreman was blacklisted soon after.
Plot
At the end of World War I, Ella Finch and her sister Kate inherit $30,000 each. Ella then announces her dissatisfaction with life in South Bend, Indiana, and with Kate's butcher/boyfriend Willis. She is convinced she can find Kate a rich husband in New York City. Ella's wisecracking cigar salesman/husband Ernie is unable to change her mind, so he reluctantly accompanies the pair east—which is not a bad idea, considering his wife almost immediately becomes victim to a wolf in stockbroker's clothing.
More details
| author | Carl Foreman Herbert Baker |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Richard Fleischer |
| editor | Walter A. Thompson |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | change of heart clothe double cross end end of world engage force rich husband run wisecrack world war i ziegfeld follies |
| musicBy | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| producer | Stanley Kramer |
| productionCompany | The Enterprise Studios |
| theme | satirical |