Advice to the Lovelorn is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Lee Tracy, Sally Blane, Paul Harvey and Sterling Holloway.

[1][2][3] It is based on the novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West with a number of changes made.

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.