Warner Brothers, 1936
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Running time: 90 minutes
Songs:
Coney Island, I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs, Shadow Waltz, Here Comes
Chikita.
Cast:
Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Ruth Donnelly , Roscoe Karns, Allen Jenkins, Walter Catlett,
Sammy White.
Synopsis:
Mabel O'Dare (Marion Davies) is a waitress who is fired thanks to an unruly customer
(Karns) and is forced to look for another job. Karns poses as a big promoter and lands
Mabel a job as a showgirl. Larry Cain (Gable) is a heavyweight boxer in training who is
kept awake by the pounding of Mabel's rehearsing on the floor above his at the hotel. The
two clash with some funny interchanges and it's war from there.
Neither Cain's fights nor Mabel's show are doing well financially and their respective
camps (unbeknownst to them) concoct a scheme to invent a romance between them.
Repugnant
as it seems to them, the idea works and eventually they really do fall in love. Scared
that their real life romance might hurt business their camps begin a campaign to break
them up.
In the end, Cain losses a big fight because Mabel breaks into the stadium and disrupts his
concentration. He tells her that everything he had was riding on that fight, she says not
to worry since she wagered everything on his opponent. The two embrace for the finish.
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