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Blanche Friderici. Mrs. Wagner. Helen Freeman. Miss Davis. Louise Beavers. Elite Club Attendant (uncredited) Ben Taggart. Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited) Henry B. Walthall.
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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 - Full Cast & Crew. 1933; 1 hr 26 mins Drama, Comedy NR Watchlist. Where to Watch. A young woman falls for a small time con man, but after their blackmail scheme goes awry and ends ...
- Sam Wood
Hold Your Man (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Tell A Banker From A Bum Clever opening bit with Clark Gable in hustler mode, encountering venerable Henry B. Walthall on an MGM city street, then Garry Owen at a pawn shop, Sam Wood directing from an original screenplay by Howard Emmett Rogers and Anita Loos, in Hold Your Man, 1933, also starring Jean Harlow.
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Classic Films in Focus: HOLD YOUR MAN (1933) By Jennifer Garlen on Apr 9, 2014 From Virtual Virago. Directed by Sam Wood, Hold Your Man (1933) is a Pre-Code women’s prison story with Jean Harlow as the primary jailbird and Clark Gable as the career con man who lands her there.
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Since Hold Your Man is the halfway point (the third of six films they would share the screen in) of their collaborations together, Gable and Harlow have settled into an easy and believable chemistry that adds a lot of charm and makes the film eminently watchable. Being a pre-Code film helps things along too, as Gable is able to be sleazy and Harlow is allowed to make her money by having…
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