Advice to the Lovelorn

Advice to the Lovelorn is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Lee Tracy, Sally Blane, Paul Harvey and Sterling Holloway. The film was released on December 1, 1933, by United Artists. It is based on the novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West with a number of changes made.

Plot
After Los Angeles reporter Toby Prentiss angers his editor by missing a major story due to being in a drunken stupor, he is assigned as punishment to take over the role of the retiring "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column. Enraged but contractually-bound, Prentiss tries to get himself deliberately fired by writing a string of replies that offend conventional morality. Instead he proves to be a major success and becomes a syndicated national columnist. This causes considerable difficulties with his girlfriend Louise.

Cast

 * Lee Tracy as Toby Prentiss
 * Sally Blane as Louise
 * Paul Harvey as Gaskell
 * Sterling Holloway as Benny
 * C. Henry Gordon as Kane
 * Isabel Jewell as Rose
 * Jean Adair as Mrs. Prentiss
 * Clay Clement as 	Joseph C. Douglas, District Attorney
 * May Boley as Miss Lonelyhearts
 * Matt Briggs as 	Richards
 * Judith Wood as 	Cora
 * Jimmy Conlin as 	California Booster
 * Adalyn Doyle as 	Miss Curtis
 * Ruth Fallows as 	Miss Howell
 * Wade Boteler as 	Federal Detective
 * Thomas E. Jackson as Federal Detective
 * Charles Lane as 	Circulation Manager
 * George Dobbs as Reporter
 * Tom Herbert as Reporter
 * Franklyn Ardell as 	Reporter
 * Wilfred Lucas as Reporter
 * Wilbur Mack as 	Reporter
 * William H. Turner as Reporter
 * John Vosper as Reporter
 * Billy Wayne as 	Reporter
 * Bonnie Bannon as 	Girl