Her Man’s (1930) Mysterious Setting, Why They Won’t Say Havana!

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

When I wrote about Her Man (1930) a couple of years ago I noted that there was some confusion over the setting. It was never named in the film. I explained in an aside:

* According to Peter Stanfield in Body and Soul: Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63, Havana was only one of the possible settings, but the most identifiable in the end because of the inclusion of Morro Castle. Stanfield wrote that Garnett and Howard H...