Manhattan Angel

{{Infobox film

| name = Manhattan Angel

| image = File:Manhattan Angel.jpg

| caption =

| director = Arthur Dreifuss

| producer = Sam Katzman

| screenplay = Albert Derr

| story = George H. Plympton
(original story)
Albert Deer
(original story)

| starring = Gloria Jean
Patricia Barry
Thurston Hall

| cinematography = Ira H. Morgan

| editing = Richard Fantl

| color_process = Black and white

| studio = Sam Katzman Productions

| distributor = Columbia Pictures

| released = {{film date|1949|3|17|}}

| runtime = 68 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

}}

Manhattan Angel is a 1949 American comedy musical film directed by Arthur Dreifuss and starring Gloria Jean, Patricia Barry and Thurston Hall.

It was originally called Sweetheart of the Blues."Beckett Goes Romantic; Miller Duties Doubled" Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 4 Mar 1948: 23. It was made after I Surrender Dear."Pretty Little Gloria Jean Blossoms Out as Player of Important Adult Roles" Scott, John L. Los Angeles Times 28 Mar 1948: C1

Plot

Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new skyscraper in Manhattan. Gloria enters a friend in a beauty contest with a $25,000 first prize and, after some iffy-maneuvering, her friend wins the contest and the money goes to preserving the youth center.