You may be forgiven for thinking that this movie was a love story by it's title. You'd be wrong and I would not be watching it. "The Man I Love" is a film noir.
It stars Ida Lupino as a torch singer ( a person who sings sentimental love songs lamenting an unrequited or lost love.) who works in a nightclub run by mobsters. She meets a songwriter who she falls in love with who still can't get over the divorce from his wife. Meanwhile the manager of the club Robert Alda (father of Alan Alda famous for playing Hawkeye Pierce in M.A.S.H.) is in love with Lupino. This all comes to a head when a married woman who lives next door to Lupino gets involved with Alda and refuses to leave him. He gets Lupino's brother who is also working at the club to get her out of there. On the way she jumps out of the car and is killed by an oncoming car. Alda tries to pin the accident on the brother but Lupino steps in to prevent him.
The movie has a smattering of musical standards from the time period including the film title "The Man I Love".
A moody, bluesy film noir directed by one of Hollywood's great director's Raoul Walsh.