Available on DVD through The Warner Brothers Archive Collection

Gable is Larry Cain, a small time boxer, whose publicity team cooks up a fake romance with Mabel O'Dare (Davies), an aspiring musical star, for publicity. The two loathe each other but begrudgingly agree to play along to help both of their careers. Of course along the way they actually do fall in love and decide to quit boxing and show business to be together. Their publicists won't hear of it however and set to break them up.

Reviews

Photoplay magazine, November 1936:

Clark Gable teamed with Marion Davies in a swell story, lavishly produced. All about an ex-hash slinger chorine and a prize fighter who are press-agented into romance. Tuneful music and a grand cast. You'll like this.

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Quote-able Gable

"You've just got to stop that racket, Pop. If you don't, the first clench I get into tomorrow night, I'll curl up in the champ's arms and go to sleep!" first lines

"I've just got to get some sleep, Pop. I couldn't get any now if the sandman was carrying bricks!"

"Someday I'll meet that dame. When I do, I'll spank her so tender she could sit on a newspaper and read the headlines!"

"I'm warning you, if I ever meet that dame, they'll be throwing a benefit for her the next day!"

"If that galloping you were doing tonight is dancing, then I've seen the Russian ballet at a horse show!"

"I'm supposed to be a fighter and what am I doing--playing post office all over the front page with a dame!"

"Oh, so I've switched titles, have I? I'm America's Sweetheart now, am I? Well get this:  that cheap little publicity hound is going to apologize for this or I'll wring her neck until the newspapers won't be able to get a word out of her without a corkscrew!"

"If they printed what I thought of you, they wouldn't be able to send it through the mail!"

"Honey, that's your money, I can't take that." last line

Behind the Scenes

Nominated for Best Dance Direction for the song "I'll Sing You 1,000 Love Songs".

Davies claimed to be "allergic to mustaches", so Gable shaved off his mustache for the role. This proved to be a problem when he was called back to the set of  San Francisco for retakes and had to wear a fake mustache.

William Randolph Hearst (producer, publishing magnate and Davies' paramour) spent $35,000 on the carousel for the musical number "Coney Island". After filming was completed, the carousel was installed in the backyard of Davies' Santa Monica home, near her pool and tennis courts.

The number, "I'll Sing You 1,000 Love Songs" took two weeks to shoot and cost $400,000. It occupied nine minutes of screen time.

One of actress Jane Wyman's first screen appearances. She is credited as "Chorus Girl".