| Tales of Manhattan | |
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| Directed by | Julien Duvivier |
| Written by | Ben Hecht Alan Campbell Ferenc Molnár Samuel Hoffenstein Donald Ogden Stewart Lamar Trotti László Görög László Vadnay Buster Keaton (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Boris Morros Sam Spiegel |
| Starring | Charles Boyer Rita Hayworth Ginger Rogers Henry Fonda Charles Laughton Edward G. Robinson Ethel Waters Paul Robeson W. C. Fields |
| Cinematography | Joseph Walker |
| Edited by | Robert William Bischoff Gene Fowler Jr. |
| Music by | Sol Kaplan |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 118 minutes 127 minutes (restored version) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.6 million (US rentals)[1] |
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 ("Story of a Tailcoat"), 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.