| No Man of Her
Own (1932) Paramount  Release Date: December 30,1932 Directed by: Wesley Ruggles Costarring: Carole Lombard Dorothy Mackaill Grant Mitchell Available on DVD from Universal Cinema Classics 
DearMrGable.com's Movie of the Month, October 2010 Gable is Jerry "Babe" Stewart, a crooked card shark on the run from a police investigator when he stops in on the sleepy small town of Glendale. There he meets the bored town librarian, Connie Randall (Lombard) who is just waiting for something exciting to happen to her. Their attraction is instant, although she tries to play hard to get. On the flip of a coin, they get married and she accompanies him back To New York, unaware of his seedy occupation. When she does figure out how he earns his money, she insists that he could play it straight if he wanted to. But he is conflicted--is he willing to give up his lifestyle for the woman he loves? Quote-able Gable "It's hereditary. No woman ever had anything to do with my father." first line "Well, you fishcake! Get some tomato sauce for this guy, will you Vargas, and feed him to the cat!" "Listen kid, that thing you've got on is pretty thin but I've got tough skin, see, and I don't feel it." "You know what gets me is why women can't laugh when it's over. It was all right, wasn't it? What you bawling about?" "You know I'm a hit and run guy--never have to comb any gal out of my hair. I'm free, see, and ankle chains give me the jitters." "I ever tell you I love you? You bet I didn't. I'm a square shooter." "Who's the live wire?" "Do your eyes bother you?" "No. Why?" "They bother me." "That twinkle in your eye--wrap it up for me, will you?" "What do you do with all the hearts you break, hmm?" "I never disappoint a lady." "All right, what does a nice guy do--sit around and talk?" "I never go back on a coin." "Darling, don't be funny so early in the morning. I never laugh until I've had my coffee." "If you thought I was a crook why didn't you come out with it instead of beating around the bush?" "My affairs are my own and don't butt into them!" "This is my racket and I don't have to explain to anybody." "I guess I'm a funny guy--can't be managed." "You know if I wasn't such a tough heel, you'd get under my skin." "Come here, you!" "Oh, such a rough trip! Oh, no kidding. the third day out the waves broke over the top deck--a great big ocean liner, would you believe it? Honey, it was a regular hurricane, you should have seen the excitement! They even had passengers put on life jackets. Yeah they started lowering the boats..." last lines
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