Available on DVD through The Warner Brothers Archive Collection


DearMrGable.com's Movie of the Month, September 2011

Gable is George Ferguson, a young doctor working hard to prove himself at a New York hospital. He puts medicine and his patients before all else, much to the chagrin of his heiress fiancé, Laura (Loy). He soon learns that all work and no play lead him open to temptation and he falls for Barbara (Allan), a nurse, with devastating consequences.

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Quote-able Gable

"Dr. Ferguson. O.R. Emergency B? Very well, at once." first line

"All my life I wanted to be a fine doctor."'

"It's no use, angel, that's my call."

"I'm tired of work and sweat and blood and pain. Chap in 401 is dead, Levine's wife is going to die...one begins to wonder why anything makes any difference."

"When she gets out, I'll marry her if she'll have me."

"What good's a profession that can't give you bread and butter after you've wasted ten years of your life at it?"

"I'm not doing this because I care what anybody says or thinks! I'm doing it because this girl's life is smashed and I'm going to try and help her pick up the pieces and put them back together again!"

"Dr. Hochburg..." last line

Behind the Scenes

The first film MGM bought the rights to exclusively for Gable to star in.

Took only eighteen days to film and the production costs were only $213,000--$25,000 of which were for the rights to the play.

Gable began a two-year romance with his married costar, British actress Elizabeth Allan, on the set.

Myrna Loy had rebuffed Gable's romantic advances at a party prior to this film and because of that he ignored her on set. She recalled that he would only speak to her when the cameras were rolling. He thawed by the time they made Manhattan Melodrama together and were friends afterward.

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play written by Sidney Kingsley. The film originally included the play's original elements of sex and abortion but the Legion of Decency demanded it be cut. The result is quite confusing to the viewer as only through the power of deduction can one determine what ails Elizabeth Allan's character.