Marty
Although he is good-natured, Marty is still unmarried at the age of 34 due to his socially awkward personality. After being goaded by his mother to marry, he goes to the Stardust Ballroom one Saturday night, and lucky enough meets the lonely teacher Clara. Suddenly, he now has a chance to get out of the bachelorhood.
November 3, 1927 in Los Angeles, California, USA
18 April 1899, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
27 April 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 November 1906, New Jersey, USA
2 August 1913, New York, USA
29 January 1923, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
1 December 1891, Suffolk, Virginia, USA
12 April 1896, Kingman, Arizona, USA
28 September 1901, New York City, New York, USA
October 21, 1895 in Paris, France
August 31, 1882 in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
19 May 1901, Rome, Italy
25 July 1925, San Francisco, California, USA
21 December 1915, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
22 September 1894, Eureka, California, USA
7 September 1927, Johnstown, New York, USA
11 December 1923, Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
March 23, 1926 in Benzonia, Michigan, USA
25 May 1898, Portland, North Dakota, USA
26 September 1916, San Bernardino, California, USA
1 May 1917, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 September 1893, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
23 October 1923, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
20 May 1888, Provincia di Torino, Piemonte, Italy
3 May 1925, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
July 13, 1915 in Tennessee, USA
20 March 1931, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
24 January 1917, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
5 June 1922, Seattle, Washington, USA
February 20, 2008
Enormously influential, it spawned Hollywood's interest in smaller scale, prosaic dramas, few of which failed to match its resonance.February 19, 2008
Chayevsky's TV drama transferred effortlessly to cinema.December 12, 2006
Dowdy but winning and poignant.February 21, 2014
Audiences used to seeing Borgnine in more menacing roles in films such as From Here to Eternity and Bad Day at Black Rock warmed to his sympathetic portrayal of the Bronx butcher with low self-esteem.December 12, 2006
Paddy Chayevsky's script, adapted from his own TV play, shows his flair for dialogue at its best, and the film manages to be touching, if minor.September 06, 2016
Going to the dogs in fine styleJune 24, 2006
It does have doggy charm and a certain perceptiveness.February 18, 2009
Ernest Borgnine as Marty lives up to all the promise he showed as the sadist in From Here to Eternity, and at the same time brilliantly shatters the type-cast he molded for himself in that picture.December 06, 2009
[Rod] Steiger's body language communicate not just his loneliness but his resignation to living out his life as "a fat, ugly little man."February 19, 2008
It's a warm, human, sometimes sentimental and an enjoyable experience.May 20, 2003
A warm and winning film, full of the sort of candid comment on plain, drab people that seldom reaches the screen.February 24, 2016
It is a sentimental, heart-warming, simple story of a couple of ugly ducklings who find compensation for their lack of good looks in each other's love.