Anything Billy Wilder (director of Sunset Boulevard) touches is gold.

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Some say the golden age of cinema, or at least its first golden age, peaked and ended in 1939.

'To Have and Have Not'. Hoagy singing 'Hong Kong Blues' (Tom Waits must have been  watching. Closely)
Wonderful moral complexity, this 'Hollywood' way of seeing the world fired-up so many of the continental filmmakers.
I'll watch french and italian stuff 'til the cows come home and lap it up like the milk from Tom's Fred Quimby saucer. But America's silver-screen dark-star power was undeniable. And wicked potent.
I'm a greedy movie-pig. I'll scarf it all down.

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I haven't seen It's a Wonderful Life since the late 80s but I enjoyed it then. I would be interested to revisit it.

Back to the Mad Men analysis.

A discussion prompted by this thread, with a 'film and TV' historian friend turn up an interesting observation,
It's the clients of the agency who are dressed in a more era specific 'mainstream' style (with what we would describe as an Ivy vibe) ,this is echoed in  Ken Cosgrove's wardrobe as he's the one out visiting clients on 'home turf'.
The New York agency staff dress in a more 'cutting edge' style adopting new fashion trends as the series progress through the decade, exemplified by the somewhat 'heavy handed' display in the change of wardrobe following each characters visit to California in later series

Real Men, Real Style's take

http://www.realmenrealstyle.com/dress-like-mad-men-fashion-peter-campbell/

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Although the lead in LDS looks familiar I really dont think I've seen it..

As for 2 Men in Manhattan Id say go for it..atmospheric with some great jazz performance scenes make up for not the most riveting story that JP has created