No Man of Her Own

Retrospective 2022

Source: British Film Institute, courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC

Fleeing ahead of a police investigation, card shark Babe Stewart leaves New York for the small town of Glendale, where he meets librarian Connie Randall. An attractive blonde, she falls for the smooth-talking Babe and uses his love of gambling to get him to marry her. To conceal the source of his wealth, he pretends to be a stock trader on Wall Street, but at some point, his secret comes out. Connie finds his marked deck and thwarts his next attempt to cheat at cards, but she’s not ready to give up on him. Not even when his ex-girlfriend tells Connie the whole truth ... Seven years before their wedding, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard played a married couple in this romantic comedy. They were true to accepted gender roles, with Gable as the good-for-nothing heartbreaker, and Lombard the cool blond who uses her head rather than her sex appeal to reel him in. Although her character is clearly intent on redeeming him, this pre-code film provided plenty of opportunity for pillow talk, showing off her seductive side.

by Wesley Ruggles
with Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell, Elizabeth Patterson, George Barbier, J. Farrell MacDonald, Tommy Conlon, Walter Walker, Paul Ellis USA 1932 English 82’ Black/White

With

Clark Gable
Carole Lombard
Dorothy Mackaill
Grant Mitchell
Elizabeth Patterson
George Barbier
J. Farrell MacDonald
Tommy Conlon
Walter Walker
Paul Ellis

Crew

Director	Wesley Ruggles
Screenplay	Maurine Watkins, Milton Herbert Gropper
Story	Edmund Goulding, Benjamin Glazer
Cinematography	Leo Tover
Editing	Otho Lovering
Sound	Earl Hayman
Producer	Albert Lewis

Produced by

Paramount Productions, Inc.

Additional information

Print: NBCUniversal, Universal City, CA

Wesley Ruggles

Filmography

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2022