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The Toast of New York

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Toast of New York is a 1937 film directed by Rowland V. Lee.It's a fanciful, largely non-factual Biopic of notoriously unscrupulous financier Jim Fisk. Fisk (Edward Arnold) and his business partner Nick Boyd (Cary Grant) start out in the Civil War by smuggling cotton out of the Confederacy and into the Union, something that could have gotten them arrested in the north and shot in the south. They make a killing, but their bumbling sidekick Luke (Jack Oakie) invested their money in Confederate bonds, and the gang loses everything.Fisk bounces back, though, largely bluffing his way into control of the Erie Railroad and fighting with rival financier Cornelius Vanderbilt. Meanwhile, Fisk falls in love with a showgirl, Josie Mansfield (Frances Farmer). Fisk builds up Josie as a stage star while he becomes a titan of finance, but Josie winds up falling in love with Nick instead. Fisk for his part becomes steadily more and more angry with the contempt that the New York financial establishment shows for Josie. He resolves to destroy them all and make himself the richest man in America, by literally buying all the gold in the United States and cornering the gold market.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Cary Grant broke out as a huge star in 1937 with The Awful Truth; this film was just about the last time he was billed behind anyone else. 45 years after this movie Frances Farmer would be the subject of another Very Loosely Based on a True Story biopic, Frances.
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 Anguished Declaration of Love: At one point towards the end Josie says that Nick has feelings for her, and he angrily denies it. This is followed by him coming back and saying "I want you to know that I lied to you", which is how he admits that he does love her.
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 Artistic License – History: In the first scene, as Fisk, Luke, and Boyd are fleeing from angry Southerners, Boyd points to a bridge and says when they cross it, they'll be "in the North, across the Mason-Dixon Line!". The Mason-Dixon Line was the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and while it was symbolic of the boundary between the slave South and the non-slaveholding North, Maryland actually stayed loyal to the Union during the war. (Also, the border was a straight line, not a river.)
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