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Director
  
Lloyd Bacon

Duration
  

Language
  
English

8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Musical, Romance

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
September 26, 1936 (1936-09-26)

Writer
  
Laird Doyle (screen play), H.C. Witwer (story)

Music director
  
Harry Warren, Al Dubin, Heinz Eric Roemheld

Producers
  
Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis

Cast
  
Marion Davies
(Mabel O'Dare),
Clark Gable
(Larry Cain),
Allen Jenkins
(Dodo),
Roscoe Karns
(Reilly),
Walter Catlett
(Jake Sherman),
Robert Paige
(Ronny Cauldwell)

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,
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,
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,
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,
Aladdin

Tagline
  
It's the Romantic Battle of the Century with a World championship Cast!

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Cain and Mabel is a 1936 romantic comedy film designed as a vehicle for Marion Davies in which she co-stars with Clark Gable. The story had been filmed before, in 1924, by William Randolph Hearst's production company, Cosmopolitan, as a silent called The Great White Way, starring Anita Stewart and Oscar Shaw. In this version, Robert Paige introduced the song "I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs", with music by Harry Warren and words by Al Dubin, who also wrote "Coney Island", "Here Comes Chiquita", and other songs.

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Plot

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Waitress-turned-Broadway star Mabel O'Dare (Marion Davies) and garage-mechanic-turned-prize fighter Larry Cain (Clark Gable) dislike each other intensely, but press agent Aloysius K. Reilly (Roscoe Karns) cooks up a phony romance between them for publicity. Inevitably, the two fall in love for real, and plan on getting married, with Mabel quitting show business to be a housewife and Cain quitting the fight racket to run garages in New Jersey.

When their entourages get wind of their plan, they plant the story in the newspapers, and each thinks the other one betrayed their secret - until Mabel's aunt (Ruth Donnelly) tells Mabel the truth. Mabel abandons her show and rushes to Philadelphia where Cain is fighting. Having been told by his manager that Mabel is going to marry crooner Ronny Caudwell (Robert Paige), an enraged Cain is waging an all-out fight against his opponent, until he hears Mabel's voice and is knocked down. Reilly confesses to Cain that he was the one who leaked the story, and Cain's second, DoDo (Allen Jenkins) accidentally throws a towel into the ring, making Cain the loser by a technical knockout. But since Mabel has bet on the other boxer, the newly reunited couple will have a tidy nest egg to start their new life together.

Cast

  • Marion Davies as Mabel O'Dare
  • Clark Gable as Larry Cain
  • Allen Jenkins as Dodo
  • Roscoe Karns as Aloysius K. Reilly
  • Walter Catlett as Jake Sherman
  • Robert Paige as Ronny Cauldwell (credited as David Carlyle)
  • Hobart Cavanaugh as Milo, the Stage Manager
  • Ruth Donnelly as Aunt Mimi
  • Pert Kelton as Toddy Williams
  • William Collier, Sr. as Pat "Pop" Walters
  • Sammy White as singer in "Coney Island"
  • E.E. Clive as Charles "Chuck" Fendwick
  • Allen Pomeroy as Tom Reed, a Boxer
  • Robert Middlemass as Mr. George, Cafe Proprietor
  • Joseph Crehan as Reed's Manager
  • Charles Teske as a Dancer
  • Marie Prevost as Sherman's receptionist (uncredited)

    • Production and reception

    Shooting on Cain and Mabel was delayed because the part of the leading man, which eventually went to Clark Gable, had not yet been cast. Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies' lover, convinced Warner Bros. studio head Jack L. Warner, an old friend, to get Gable from MGM as Davies' co-star. Hearst wielded considerably influence on the production: he also rejected Dick Powell for the part which went to Robert Paige – billed here as "David Carlyle" – apparently because he was jealous, as he perceived that Davies found Powell attractive.

    The film was a box-office flop, with critics finding that Gable was miscast as a fighter.

    Awards and honors

    Cain and Mabel was nominated for a 1937 Academy Award for "Best Dance Direction" by Bobby Connolly.

    References

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