No Man of Her Own (1932)

A con man on the run from the police falls for a librarian.

Director:

Wesley Ruggles

Writers:

Maurine Dallas Watkins (screen play) (as Maurine Watkins), Milton Herbert Gropper (screen play) (as Milton H. Gropper)

Stars:

Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Clark Gable	...	Jerry 'Babe' Stewart
Carole Lombard	...	Connie Randall
Dorothy Mackaill	...	Kay Everly
Grant Mitchell	...	Charlie Vane
Elizabeth Patterson	...	Mrs. Randall
George Barbier	...	Mr. Randall
J. Farrell MacDonald	...	'Dickie' Collins
Tommy Conlon	...	Willie Randall
Walter Walker	...	Mr. Morton
Paul Ellis	...	Vargas
Charley Grapewin	...	Clerk
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Roberta Gregory
Dixie Lee Hall	...	Girl in the Library

Storyline

Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. The two get married after Lombard wins a coin flip and they move back to the city. Gable continues his gambling/cheating scheme unbeknownst to Lombard. When she discovers his "other life", she presures him to quit. Gable feels crowded and tells her that he is leaving for South America. In fact, Gable has decided he wants to go straight and turns himself in to the cop...

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Plot Keywords:

on the run | small town americana | male in shower | bare chested male | card sharp | 

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Taglines:

Gable as You Want him, A love 'em and leave 'em gambler, whose insults only added fuel to a woman's reckless devotion. (Print Ad- Register-Herald, ((Pine Plains, NY)) 6 January 1933)

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Miriam Hopkins was initially slated to star in this film, but was replaced by Carole Lombard, not a big star at the time, before shooting began. Hopkins pulled out of the picture after refusing to accept second billing to Clark Gable.

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Goofs

In the very beginning of the movie, Carole Lombard's character Connie Randall, is talking on the phone to a man who sounds like someone interested in courting her. She calls him George. Moments later she calls the clerk where she gets a pack of cigarettes George too.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Kay Everly: Well, I might as well.

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Crazy Credits

The cast is shown on a hand of poker cards, with the leads faces shown as the various cards.

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Connections

Featured in Stars of the Silver Screen: Clark Gable (2011)

User Reviews

If The Hollywood Moguls Had Only Known

No Man of Her Own is a pleasant film, nothing terribly bad or terribly good about it. It is remembered today as the only pairing of that star-crossed couple Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. At the time this was made Gable and Lombard were not an item. They became one about four or five years after No Man of Her Own was filmed. It's not on the top 10 list of either star.

Gable is a gambler/con artist who's forced by circumstance to beat it out of New York and he flees for a small suburb where he meets librarian Carole Lombard and marries her. That's as far as I'm going with the telling of the plot.

Lombard was with Paramount at the time this was made and Gable was on loan out from MGM. There's none of the Lombard we knew and loved in such classics as Twentieth Century or My Man Godfrey here. She's a pleasant enough screen heroine though. Gable does well in his part, but doesn't set the world on fire.

If someone had only predicted that Gable and Lombard and their marriage would be come legendary. I'm sure they would have been given a much better film property. I always felt that if Lombard had not been killed in that plane crash in 1942 she would have eventually signed with MGM and L.B. Mayer would have paired her with Gable in the way Katharine Hepburn signed with MGM after the success of Woman of the Year with Spencer Tracy. You might have had a few films to remember Gable and Lombard by.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 December 1932 (USA)

Also Known As:

No Bed of Her Own

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1