Romance in Manhattan is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Stephen Roberts, starring Francis Lederer and Ginger Rogers, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

Karel Novak (Lederer), an incredibly naive Czech immigrant, arrives in New York with $58 (thinking he only needed $50 to enter the U.S.).

Novak jumps from the deportation ship and is rescued by dock workers, but he loses his money.

He asks the police officer Murphy (J. Farrell MacDonald) if someone could get in trouble for helping someone if they didn't know he was an illegal alien.

The two women from the state ask the landlady if Novak is living in Sylvia's apartment.

So Karel goes to attorney Halsey J. Pander (Arthur Hohl), who asks for $50 and promises to make him a citizen right away.

Murphy intervenes, and the police sergeant (Sidney Toler) makes calls to arrange a marriage license and to hire a minister (Donald Meek).

At the police station, Pander's arraignment for drunk driving (and assorted other made-up offenses), the over-the-phone immigration paperwork, filling out the marriage license, and a doctor's physical examination and vaccination of Karel, and the wedding itself, all take place simultaneously, with comic pauses and interruptions.