No Man of Her Own (1932)

Directed by Wesley Ruggles

In this early melodramatic programmer, Clark Gable plays a con man to Carole Lombard’s slightly wild, small-town librarian. They get married, but there is still a cop on Gable’s heels. This film was made several years before Gable and Lombard got married, but their chemistry is already electric. Interestingly, the film also highlights America’s obsession with gambling, even in small towns, where one would suspect moral parameters.

Paramount Productions, Inc. Producer: Susanne Dulier. Screenwriter: Maurine Watkins, Milton H. Gropper, from a story by Edmund Goulding and Benjamin Glazer. Cast: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell, Elizabeth Patterson.

35mm, b/w, 85 min.