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Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

paul de boef UPTOWN NEW YORK is an underrated romance/drama picture, it really shows more depth and more feeling than many other movies of the early 1930s. Jack Oakie received an Oscar nomination for his acting in "The Great Dictator", but he should have got an Oscar for his absorbing portrayal of Eddie Doyle in UPTOWN NEW YORK. In many scenes Oakie does not act but he IS his character. The scenes when he is waiting in the hospital while his wife is operated in the next room are stunning. I have never seen something like this before. Beautiful Shirley Grey is also totally convincing and perfect as the beloved New York gal. (In some of the scenes she looks like Madonna). Leon Ames is good as the successful Jewish doctor, but Jack Oakie steals the show and makes UPTOWN NEW YORK - 80 years ago now - a great film with a timeless quality. And for a 1932 movie, it's quite modern in feel. The film has many imaginative scenes with great photography. The quality of the DVD from Alpha Entertainment is pretty bad and the framing is not very good. But Alpha is the only DVD available.

MartinHafer Most films from the early 1930s have been forgotten. However, this is a shame because nice little films like "Uptown New York" are waiting to be discovered. "Uptown New York" stars Shirley Grey, Leon Ames and Jack Oakie--all relatively obscure to the average person today but relatively famous in their time. It begins with Ames dating Grey and it looks as if they'll soon marry. However, Ames' traditional Jewish family assumes that now that he's becoming a doctor he'll marry a nice Jewish girl--one the family has pretty much picked out for him. Now in the family's defense, it appears as if Ames never told them about Grey--and he obediently drops Grey and marries the family's choice. Grey is naturally devastated--and soon meets nice-guy Oakie and begins dating him on the rebound. But, when Ames later returns and wants to either have an affair or marry her, Grey is stumped--she likes Oakie and is comfortable, but she still has a strong connection with Ames. Despite this, she marries Oakie--and then the film gets a bit overly melodramatic in a twist I will let you see for yourself. Still, with nice acting, a nice and simple story and decent production values, it's a sweet and easy to like film. In particular, Oakie comes off very in the film.By the way, if you do watch this film, get a load of the introduction screen. The lady holding the globes looks, well, quite bizarre. You just have to see it for yourself and I'll say no more about that. Also, although never stated or even strongly implied, I think the film is trying to delicately say that Grey and Ames' relationship had been sexual but unlike some Pre-Code films, they left this up to the audience to decide for themselves and I can't imagine younger viewers noticing this.If would like to see it, follow the IMDb link and you can download it yourself for free.

evening1 Times haven't changed much for women when it comes to finding the right guy, I found while watching this delightful film on the City University of New York Channel.Blonde Patricia, played by a beautiful actress I'd never seen before (Shirley Grey), falls for a clever, charismatic Jewish man who makes love to her -- a daring thing to do back in 1932. He then leaves the "shiksa" for a less-interesting Jewish woman his family accepts. Heartbroken, Patricia later meets a regular Joe who will never be a success like her former beau (who becomes a renowned surgeon) but who accepts her, warts and all. Yet she's unable to stop loving the cad, who tries to lure her into an affair. And then when her down-to-earth husband sacrifices everything for her, she seems unwilling to run to her paramour.The CUNY version of this film ended prematurely and to my great disappointment I was unable to see how the story ends. But I found it pitch-perfect in depicting how the dynamics of male-female relationships haven't changed a bit through the vicissitudes of women's lib and the high-tech revolution.The acting and writing were both superb and I look forward to an opportunity to see how this magnificent heroine finds her proper path.

lugonian UPTOWN NEW YORK (Tiffany, 1932), directed by Victor Schertzinger, is an independent production starring a slightly young but thin Jack Oakie as Eddie Doyle in a rare dramatic performance. Blonde and sassy Shirley Grey, who is featured as Patricia Smith, is actually the central character here, given a rare opportunity to carry on an entire story during her brief Hollywood career (1931-1935), which consisted of playing support to lead actors as tough dames/ molls or unfaithful wives in films for various movie studios, as well as appearing in "B" westerns, "poverty row" mysteries and/or chaptered serials. The plot: Patricia Smith is a middle-class New York City gal in love with Max Silver (Leon Waycoff), but Max is forced by his ambitious Jewish family into a marriage to a girl he doesn't love but will further his career in the medical profession, which he does, leaving Pat behind. Later in Coney Island, Pat meets Eddie, a bubble gum machine operator. Their relationship starts off on the rocky side, but eventually Pat decides to marry Eddie on the rebound even though she's still thinks of Max. When Max, now a respected surgeon, comes back into her life, she refuses to have anything to do with him because he is now a married man. After Pat is struck by a passing truck, Eddie, who knows about Pat's past relationship with Dr. Max Silver, calls on him for help. After surgery, which saves Pat, she must now decide whether to remain with husband Eddie or go back with Max, who is now willing to divorce his wife and remain with her. Decisions, decisions! Somewhat passable love story from the novel by Vina Delmar, with the lead actors playing against type, especially Grey. Oakie manages to be convincing when serious, but still comes off humorous during his lighter moments. And if the actor who plays Max Silver looks somewhat familiar, he had his surname changed from Waycoff to (Leon) Ames, and was later featured in numerous MGM films of the 1940s, as well as television appearances in the 1950s and beyond. Also in smaller roles are George Cooper, Alexander Carr, Henry Armetta, Lee Moran Raymond Hatton, with Tammany Young and Tom Kennedy in the locker room of Madison Square Garden during the prize fight scene.Once presented regularly on former cable networks of the late 1980s and early 1990s such as Tempo and Channel America, UPTOWN NEW YORK can also be found on video cassette (at 76 minutes from its original 80) from several video distributors. A rare find and real curio to see by movie buffs. (**)