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Directed by | Alfred L. Werker |
Written by | Leonard Praskins |
Based on | Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Starring | Lee Tracy Sally Blane Paul Harvey Sterling Holloway C. Henry Gordon Isabel Jewell |
Cinematography | James Van Trees |
Edited by | Allen McNeil |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Advice to the Lovelorn is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Lee Tracy, Sally Blane, Paul Harvey and Sterling Holloway. The film was released on December 1, 1933, by United Artists.[1][2][3] It is based on the novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West with a number of changes made.
After Los Angeles reporter Toby Prentiss angers his editor by missing a major story due to being in a drunken stupor, he is assigned as punishment to take over the role of the retiring "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column. Enraged but contractually-bound, Prentiss tries to get himself deliberately fired by writing a string of replies that offend conventional morality. Instead he proves to be a major success and becomes a syndicated national columnist. This causes considerable difficulties with his girlfriend Louise.