Hold Your Man (1933)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Writers:

Anita Loos (screenplay)
Anita Loos (story)

Release Date:

7 July 1933 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Reformatory | Drunkenness | Jealousy | Sexually Aggressive Woman | Prison Matron

Cast

Jean Harlow	...	Ruby Adams
Clark Gable	...	Eddie Hall
Stuart Erwin	...	Al Simpson
Dorothy Burgess	...	Gypsy Angecon
Muriel Kirkland	...	Bertha Dillion
Garry Owen	...	Slim (Eddie's partner)
Barbara Barondess	...	Sadie Cline
Elizabeth Patterson	...	Miss Tuttle (reformatory matron)
Inez Courtney	...	Mazie (reformatory inmate)
Blanche Friderici	...	Mrs. Wagner
Helen Shipman	...	Miss Davis
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Guy Kibbee	...	(scenes deleted)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (certificate number not assigned at release)

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Quotes:

Gypsy: Who are you?
Ruby: I'm the Queen of Sheba!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Bombshell (1933)

Soundtrack:

Hold Your Man

My God, she is stupendous! As real as unreal gets.

I always loved Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner, but not so much Jean Harlow. Me = dumb. I'd only seen clips of her films here and there. I always thought she was a hot one-liner, a glamour girl. But after seeing this, my first full length Jean Harlow experience, I admit that Miss Harlow was a truly great screen artist with the gift of creating rich characters. I simply fell in love with her, not because she was the first blonde bombshell or because she died young and became a legend. In this film, Miss Harlow's character is multi-dimensional beyond the traditional 1930's moll. She starts out one place and travels an arduous journey to end up on the other side of life. I loved her tough exterior. I loved her smile. I loved her song at the piano. My God, she was stupendous, she made me burst into tears when she sang her sad song. Most of all, I loved the HAPPY ENDING, Hollywood style. One other thing I was thrilled about was the African American inmate and her preacher father. Anita Loos was SO ahead of her time. She wrote 2 characters who were so lovely and so real. The inmate girl and her father brought such harmony to their scenes with all the white folk. A REVELATION for me. I hate stereotypes.