Man About Town vs Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along has the higher audience score (8/10 against 4.5/10 for Man About Town). Man About Town is the shorter watch at 1h 25m compared with 2h 25m. Man About Town is the older of the two (1939 against 2025). Both are comedy, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Man About Town
Merrily We Roll Along| Man About Town | Merrily We Roll Along | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 4.5/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 1939 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 25m | 2h 25m |
| Genres | Comedy, Music | Comedy, Music |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Mark Sandrich | Maria Friedman |
| Main cast | Monty Woolley, Cecil Kellaway, Norman Ainsley, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour | Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, Reg Rogers, Krystal Joy Brown, Lindsay Mendez |
Synopsis
Man About Town
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
Merrily We Roll Along
Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical…
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