Hold Your Man (1933)
Hold Your Man is probably my favorite romantic drama of the silver screen – and considering that’s a swath of time that includes Gone With the Wind, Now Voyager, Enchantment, Casablanca, and The Shop Around the Corner, that’s saying something. It has every element of a perfect love affair: spontaneity, loyalty, fantastic meet-cute, sex appeal, tears, endless waiting, and bringing out the best in each other.
Jean Harlow gives the performance of her career, showing talents the blonde bombshell wasn’t normally associated with. She plays a loose woman who meets Clark Gable (in one of his last movies without his mustache) when he barges into her apartment to escape the police. She’s in the bathtub, and he begs her to stall the cops, insisting they’ve “got him all wrong” – even though we saw him pull a con on an innocent bystander at the start of the movie. After a brief flirtatious tete-a-tete, he flees. She stalks his favorite nightclub for a month with her steady, boring beau Stuart Erwin, hoping to run into him again. When she does, she tries to salvage her pride, to no avail. “Don’t play so hard to get. I’m the fella who saw you in the bathtub, remember?” he smirks, after telling her to ditch Stuart and come up to his apartment.
If you’re hooked already, you’ll love this movie as much as I do. If you need more incentive, you’ll get to hear Jean Harlow saying the ever quotable, “Well, I like that!” You’ll get to see a fantastic seduction scene where Clark Gable’s arm wanders where it shouldn’t, but he still plays by her rules of staying on her feet when she’s in a man’s apartment. You’ll add to your household phrases with any number of fun quotes:
“I guess it must’a been the Lord.”
“You know, you wouldn’t be a bad lookin’ dame, if it wasn’t for your face.”
“He was tossing ten dollar bills to all the tramps at Christmas.” “Did you get yours?”
“Come here, I’ll show you the bedroom.” “You can send me a picture of it.” “Now, you got me all wrong. I just wanted you to see the view from there.” “I’ve seen a view this morning.”
A great script, memorable characters, and friendship, loyalty, and love conquering all, this wonderful movie is one of my all-time favorites. If you’ve never seen it, buy yourself a copy. It’ll quickly become one of yours.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Classic Movies Kristine Rose" for posting!
More Clark Gable movies here!
Jean Harlow gives the performance of her career, showing talents the blonde bombshell wasn’t normally associated with. She plays a loose woman who meets Clark Gable (in one of his last movies without his mustache) when he barges into her apartment to escape the police. She’s in the bathtub, and he begs her to stall the cops, insisting they’ve “got him all wrong” – even though we saw him pull a con on an innocent bystander at the start of the movie. After a brief flirtatious tete-a-tete, he flees. She stalks his favorite nightclub for a month with her steady, boring beau Stuart Erwin, hoping to run into him again. When she does, she tries to salvage her pride, to no avail. “Don’t play so hard to get. I’m the fella who saw you in the bathtub, remember?” he smirks, after telling her to ditch Stuart and come up to his apartment.
If you’re hooked already, you’ll love this movie as much as I do. If you need more incentive, you’ll get to hear Jean Harlow saying the ever quotable, “Well, I like that!” You’ll get to see a fantastic seduction scene where Clark Gable’s arm wanders where it shouldn’t, but he still plays by her rules of staying on her feet when she’s in a man’s apartment. You’ll add to your household phrases with any number of fun quotes:
“I guess it must’a been the Lord.”
“You know, you wouldn’t be a bad lookin’ dame, if it wasn’t for your face.”
“He was tossing ten dollar bills to all the tramps at Christmas.” “Did you get yours?”
“Come here, I’ll show you the bedroom.” “You can send me a picture of it.” “Now, you got me all wrong. I just wanted you to see the view from there.” “I’ve seen a view this morning.”
A great script, memorable characters, and friendship, loyalty, and love conquering all, this wonderful movie is one of my all-time favorites. If you’ve never seen it, buy yourself a copy. It’ll quickly become one of yours.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Classic Movies Kristine Rose" for posting!
More Clark Gable movies here!