Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 crime melodrama movie directed by W. S. Van Dyke and distributed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company .
Simplified: Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 crime melodrama film , produced by MGM . It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and stars Clark Gable , William Powell , and Myrna Loy .