History Film / Marty

* ThePollyanna: Marty. Despite not being married, he still thinks positively.

* MaybeEverAfter[=/=]NoEnding: Marty finally gets angry at Angie and his other friends for badmouthing Clara. He says "If we have enough good times together, [[Awesome/{{Film}} I'm gonna get down on my knees. I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me]]." He calls Clara, and she picks up the phone. TheEnd.

* TheRemake: Of a 1953 live television movie starring Rod Steiger and Creator/NancyMarchand (Series/LouGrant, Series/TheSopranos). The actors who played Marty's mother and aunt and his best friend Angie reprised their roles from the teleplay.

* CatchPhrase: Marty frequently shouts “Perfect” and “Fantastic.”
* ChristmasCake: Marty at 34 and Clara at 29, both of whom had resigned themselves to their perpetual loneliness before meeting.

* JerkAss: Clara's incredibly callous date.

* MaybeEverAfter[=/=]NoEnding: Marty finally gets angry at Angie and his other friends for badmouthing Clara. He says "If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees. I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me." He calls Clara, and she picks up the phone. TheEnd.

* TheRemake: Of a 1953 live television movie starring Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand (Series/LouGrant, Series/TheSopranos). The actors who played Marty's mother and aunt and his best friend Angie reprised their roles from the teleplay.

* AuthorAvatar: People who knew Creator/PaddyChayefsky suspected that Marty was one. Chayefsky was also a stocky, socially-awkward guy from a blue collar background.

Marty Pilletti (Creator/ErnestBorgnine) is a butcher who lives with his mother. At 34, he's resigned himself to a lifetime of bachelorhood while his siblings have families of their own. Everything changes when he meets Clara (Betsy Blair), a schoolteacher who has also resigned herself to never finding love. Through each other, they find happiness.

->”See, dogs like us, we ain't such dogs as we think we are.”

A 1955 film directed by Delbert Mann and co-produced by Creator/BurtLancaster, ''Marty'' was based off a telefilm by Creator/PaddyChayefsky, who also wrote the screenplay.

* MaybeEverAfter / NoEnding: Marty finally gets angry at Angie and his other friends for badmouthing Clara. He says "If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees. I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me." He calls Clara, and she picks up the phone. TheEnd.

* MayDecemberRomance: Discussed among Marty's friends. One states that a man should marry a woman twenty years younger than him so she'll still be young and beautiful even when he's forty. [[DidNotThinkThisThrough Another one points out that that would mean marrying a newborn]].

Marty Pilletti is a butcher who lives with his mother. At 34, he's resigned himself to a lifetime of bachelorhood while his siblings have families of their own. Everything changes when he meets Clara, a schoolteacher who has also resigned herself to never finding love. Through each other, they find happiness.

* TheRemake: Of a 1953 live television movie starring Creator/RodSteiger and Nancy Marchand (Series/LouGrant, Series/TheSopranos). The actors who played Marty's mother and aunt and his best friend Angie reprised their roles from the teleplay.

* LocalHangout: The corner diner where Marty and his friends hang out, read the paper, and wonder endlessly about what they want to do ever night.

%%* NoAntagonist

* TheRemake: Of a 1953 live television movie starring Rod Steiger and [[Series/LouGrant Nancy]] [[Series/TheSopranos Marchand]]. The actors who played Marty's mother and aunt and his best friend Angie reprised their roles from the teleplay.

%%* VideoCredits

Marty Pilletti is a butcher who lives with his mother. At 35, he's resigned himself to a lifetime of bachelorhood while his siblings have families of their own. Everything changes when he meets Clara, a schoolteacher who has also resigned herself to never finding love. Through each other, they find happiness.

* ChristmasCake: Marty and Clara, both of whom had resigned themselves to their perpetual loneliness before meeting.

%%* NoAntagonist

* DoggedNiceGuy: Marty himself, who has a brief breakdown when his mother encourages him to go to the dance hall and find a girl as he'd been given the brush-off earlier that day by a woman he wasn't even all that interested in.
-->'''Marty''': All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

-->-''Marty Pilletti''