Love on Toast

"Love on Toast" is a 1937 trite comedy starring Stella Adler (here credited as Ardler) as a publicity woman out to sell soup with a "Mr. Manhattan" campaign. "Mr. Manhattan" is supposed to marry Miss Brooklyn. Love gets in the way.

Adler comes off as a Glenda Farrell-Jean Arthur type. She's fast-talking, and her character is quick thinking and energetic. Adler was quite beautiful - I understand in order to break into films, she had a nose job. Whatever, she looks great.

As Mr. Manhattan, a baby-faced John Payne has one of his first film roles; he looks like Robert Taylor here, wearing the same makeup.

Thinking about the incredible contribution Adler made, teaching people like Brando, Harvey Keitel, Robert DeNiro, and Warren Beatty to name a few - it's interesting that, though she tried, she didn't break into the big time in films. Obviously, she was meant for bigger things.