Hold Your Man

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name = Hold Your Man


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director = Sam Wood
producer = Sam Wood
writer = Anita Loos
Howard Emmett Rogers
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starring = Jean Harlow
Clark Gable
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cinematography = Harold Rosson
editing = Frank Sullivan
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = July 7 1933
runtime = 87 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0024130

"Hold Your Man " (1933) is an American romantic drama film directed by an uncredited Sam Wood and starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable.

Plot

Small-time con man Eddie Hall (Clark Gable) hides from his latest victim and a policeman in the first unlocked apartment he can find. It turns out to occupied by Ruby Adams (Jean Harlow), a cynical woman with numerous boyfriends. When it is safe to come out, Eddie wants to become better acquainted with his pretty rescuer. Although she resists at first, she ends up falling in love with him.

Eddie's partner Slim (Garry Owen) comes up with a scheme to catch one of Ruby's married admirers in a compromising position and blackmail him, but Eddie finds at the last moment that he cannot bear to have his girl involved in something that sordid. He breaks into Ruby's apartment and punches the would-be victim, accidentally killing him. Eddie escapes, but Ruby is caught and sentenced to a reformatory for two years. One of her fellow inmates turns out to be Gypsy Angecon (Dorothy Burgess), Eddie's previous girlfriend.

When Eddie learns from a released Gypsy that Ruby is pregnant with his child, he visits her, but as a fugitive, he has to pretend to be there to see another inmate. Even though the authorities become suspicious, Eddie is determined to marry Ruby so his child will not be illegitimate. With the police closing in, instead of escaping, he persuades a minister visiting his wayward daughter to marry them.

He is caught and sent to prison. When he gets out, he is welcomed by Ruby and their young son. Ruby announces that Al Simpson (Stuart Erwin), who had wanted to marry her himself, has gotten him a legitimate job.

Cast

*Jean Harlow as Ruby Adams
*Clark Gable as Eddie Hall
*Stuart Erwin as Al Simpson
*Dorothy Burgess as Gypsy Angecon
*Muriel Kirkland as Bertha Dillion
*Garry Owen as Slim
*Barbara Barondess as Sadie Cline
*Elizabeth Patterson as Miss Tuttle (reformatory matron)
*Inez Courtney as Mazie (reformatory inmate)
*Blanche Friderici as Mrs. Wagner
*Helen Shipman as Miss Davis

External links

*imdb title|id=0024130
*tcmdb title|id=208