Discussion of "The Man I Love"|

The Man I Love (1947) is a melodramatic film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, and Bruce Bennett.
Petey Brown (Lupino) is a lounge singer who is homesick for her family in California. She leaves New York City to visit her two sisters (King and Martha Vickers) and brother (Warren Douglas) on the West Coast. She gets a job at a Long Beach nightclub owned by a local hood, Nicky Toresca (Alda).

While avoiding passes from Toresca, Petey falls in love with a down-on-his-luck ex-jazz pianist, Sam Thomas (Bennett).

Will Petey make a life for herself in California or will she go back to New York City and the jazz clubs where she feels most at home?

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