Saratoga (1937)

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Jean Harlow died mid-way through the production of Saratoga, and her absence can be strongly felt in the film. During the first half of the film, Saratoga provides Harlow with a snappy, banter filled screenplay to fire off flirtations and sarcastic comebacks with equal fervor at Clark Gable. We’ve already started off on the right foot here, but then the film goes wonky, no longer the tightly scr... read more

In this the last film for famed actress Jean Harlow (she died during its production). Harlow appears as a poor girl from a horse-breeding family whose business has been purchased by wealthy bookie Clark Gable. At first they fight like two tomcats--Harlow is engaged to one of Gable's racetrack competitors and she tries to assist her fiancee in his schemes to thwart Gable--but soon it is Gable and Harlow who are in love. Following Harlow's death a stand-in was found and the final scenes were completed. Some feel this is Harlow at her finest.