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"Clark Gable plays Babe Stewart, a cardsharp gambler, who meets and marries Connie Randall (Lombard) on the flip of a coin. She tries to change him into an early-rising, respectable time clock puncher. The reformation process provides some of the funniest moments of the video."@en
"Comedy in which a gambler chooses a wife on the flip of a coin, only to learn that she intends to reform him."@en
"In their one-and-only performance together, the future husband/wife team of Carole Lombard and Academy Award winner Clark Gable sizzles in this story of a small-town girl and a charming big-city swindler."
""Crooked gambler Babe Stewart leaves Manhattan for the small town of Glendale when his ex-mistress, Kay Everly, threatens to expose him. There he tries to seduce librarian Connie Randall, who refuses him until he flips a coin and agrees to marry her. Back in New York, Babe loses at cards to his partners Vane and Vargas in order to evade Detective Collins, a friend of Babe's most recent victim. Unsuspecting, Connie wakes Babe for work each morning and he is forced to spend his days on Wall Street. His subterfuge works until Connie discovers his marked deck and shuffles the cards before an important game, causing Babe to lose. Angry at Connie's meddling, Babe plans a trip to Rio de Janeiro for some big money and sends Connie back to Glendale. Realizing his love for her, however, he gives himself up to Collins for a ninety-day jail sentence. When Connie returns to New York, pregnant, for Babe's homecoming from Rio, she learns the truth, and the couple embraces."@en
"Gable and Lombard are without a doubt one of the most famous, indeed legendary romantic couples of our time but this was the only film in which they appeared together, some seven years before they married. Big-time card shark Babe Stewart who hides out in a small mid-western town marries the local librarian on a bet and ultimately falls in love with."@en
"A big time gambler marries a small town girl with surprising results."
"A gambler on the run meets and marries a librarian after she wins a coin toss. Includes a bonus introduction by Robert Osbourne and the original theatrical trailer."@en
"This melodramatic comedy features a cardshark who marries a small-town, beautiful woman who tries to turn him into a respectable citizen."
"A gambler on the run meets and marries a librarian after she wins a coin toss."@en
"Gable plays a card shark who meets a naive, beautiful woman (Lombard) while hiding in a small town. On the flip of a coin, he marries her, and she sets about trying to make an honest man of him."
"Gable plays a card shark who meets a naive, beautiful woman (Lombard) while hiding in a small town. On the flip of a coin, he marries her, and she sets about trying to make an honest man of him."@en