Marty [1955 film]
by Delbert Mann (Director), Paddy Chayefsky (Screenwriter)
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Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a lonely schoolteacher with similar fears.Tags
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C+ (Okay).
I loved the scenes with Marty and Clara together. The stuff with Marty's family and friends, especially the third act, gets kind of hard to watch.
(Nov. 2023)
I loved the scenes with Marty and Clara together. The stuff with Marty's family and friends, especially the third act, gets kind of hard to watch.
(Nov. 2023)
A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other. (IMDb)
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realizing their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to. (source: TMDb)
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- Canonical title
- Marty [1955 film]
- Original title
- Marty
- Original publication date
- 1955-04-11
- People/Characters
- Marty Piletti; Clara Snyder
- Important places
- The Bronx, New York, New York, USA; New York, New York, USA; New York, USA
- Important events
- 1950s; 1954
- Related movies
- Marty (1955 | IMDb)
- Original language
- English
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- Rating
- (4.17)
- Languages
- English
- ISBNs
- 7
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