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Jun 30, 2018 · ‘Hold Your Man’: THR’s 1933 Review. On June 30, 1933, Clark Gable and Jean Harlow hit the big screen together again in Hold Your Man as it made its New York City premiere.
- THR Staff
Grifters in love!! Petty crook Eddie Hall (Clark Gable) ducks into a random apartment to hide from police and ends up falling for its resident, bombshell Ruby Adams (Jean Harlow). Hall and his ...
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- Sam Wood
- Romance
- Jean Harlow
- Proof That It’S Pre-Code
- Hold Your Man: But Toss The Script
- Trivia & Links
- Awards, Accolades & Availability
Our introduction to Ruby (Harlow) involves Eddie (Gable) running into her apartment and away from the police only to find her bathing.She has a man’s bathrobe in her closet and much of her income seems to derive from taking nice guys for a ride.Ruby makes her own gin.Ruby stores all of her spare cash in her brassiere.Always lock the door when you’re taking a bath. This is a hard won lesson in life, I think, but an important one. Had Jean Harlow’s Ruby done such a thing, she may have avoided a stretch in a reformatory and a whole host of other problems, all in the form of Clark Gable’s Eddie. But he’s on the run after one of his cheesy cons goes over too well an...
Probably the best overview comes from Senses of Cinemawho calls this movie, “a fascinating mix of racy pre-Code cynicism and post-Code sentimentality and piety.” This part, about the film’s finale...
This film is available on Amazon via disk and streaming and from Warner Archive.Hold Your Man: Directed by Sam Wood. With Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Burgess. A woman is sent to a reformatory when her con artist lover flees after killing a man during a botched blackmail scheme.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Sam Wood
- 1933-07-07
Hold Your Man is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by an uncredited Sam Wood and starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, the third of their six films together. The screenplay by Anita Loos and Howard Emmett Rogers was based on a story by Loos.
Jan 15, 2011 · Jean Harlow (with Clark Gable) knows how to Hold Your Man. Although she played opposite many great leading men, including James Cagney, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, William Powell, and Robert Taylor, in her brief movie career, Jean Harlow shared her greatest screen chemistry with Clark Gable.
Directed by Sam Wood. THE STARS YOU LOVE TO SEE MAKING LOVE! Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
