Desc: New York Town: Directed by Charles Vidor. With Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff. Victor Ballard is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski. After Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis, he realizes she is desperate and in need of a friend who can guide her through the ways and means of surviving in Manhattan with no money.