No Man of Her Own (1932 film)
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| Directed by | Wesley Ruggles |
| Produced by | Albert Lewis |
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Novel (uncredited): Val Lewton Story: Benjamin Glazer Edmund Goulding Screenplay: Milton Herbert Gropper Maurine Dallas Watkins |
| Starring |
Clark Gable Carole Lombard |
| Music by | W. Franke Harling (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Leo Tover |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
No Man of Her Own is a 1932 American Pre-Code romantic drama starring Clark Gable and Carole Lombard as a married couple in their only film together, several years before their own legendary marriage in real life. The movie was directed by Wesley Ruggles, and originated as an adaptation of No Bed of Her Own, a 1932 novel by Val Lewton, but ended up based more on a story by Benjamin Glazer and Edmund Goulding, although it retained the title it got from Lewton's novel. It is not related to the 1950 film of the same name.
Gambler Babe Steward (Clark Gable) is in trouble with the law and with his girlfriend Kay Everly (Dorothy Mackaill), so he decides to lie low in a small town. There he meets librarian Connie Randall (Carole Lombard) and attempts to seduce her. They flip a coin to decide whether or not to get married. The coin forces them to wed and Connie soon falls in love with Babe.
Babe continues his conning while telling Connie that he is working on Wall Street. Connie does not suspect anything until she finds Babe's marked cards in his desk. She shuffles the cards and when Babe plays a game of poker, he loses. Babe wants nothing more to do with Connie and leaves for Rio de Janeiro. But, realizing that he loves Connie, he gives himself up to the police to serve his jail sentence.
When Babe returns to a pregnant Connie, he does not suspect that she knows of his deception. She does not say a word about it and, in true Hollywood fashion, we are left to assume that the couple lives happily ever after.
Marion Davies is ultimately responsible for this film being made, as she encouraged MGM to make a trade of Gable for Bing Crosby, who was the only person she wanted for her next project, which became Going Hollywood (1933). Multi-millionaire William Randolph Hearst, Davies' love interest and her partner in a production company, convinced MGM's Louis B. Mayer to make the deal, so Gable was sent to Paramount to work on a project of his choice until Crosby was finished with his picture with Davies. Gable looked over the available properties, and the only one that interested him was the script for No Man of Her Own, which had originally been slated for George Raft.
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