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citizenscreen · 4 months

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Director Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972), pictured on set of CIMARRON (1931)

#wesley ruggles #old hollywood #behind the scenes

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peggybrandt · 1 year

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I'm No Angel (1933) dir. Wesley Ruggles

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gatutor · 5 months

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Joan Bennett-Bing Crosby "El cantor del río" (Mississippi) 1935, de A. Edward Sutherland, Wesley Ruggles.

#Joan Bennett #Bing Crosby #A. Edward Sutherland #Wesley Ruggles

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marypickfords · 1 year

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Betty Compson in Street Girl (Wesley Ruggles, 1929)

#betty compson #street girl #wesley ruggles #caps

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maudeboggins · 2 years

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w.s. van dyke, jean harlow, william powell, and wesley ruggles

#w. s. van dyke #jean harlow #william powell #wesley ruggles #1930s

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allaboutstanwyck · 10 months

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Barbara Stanwyck with Henry Fonda and director Wesley Ruggles on the set of You Belong To Me, 1941.

#barbara stanwyck #1940s #1941 #henry fonda #behind the scenes #wesley ruggles #you belong to me

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byneddiedingo · 5 months

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Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own (Wesley Ruggles, 1932)

Cast: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell, Elizabeth Patterson, George Barbier, J. Farrell MacDonald, Tommy Conlon, Walter Walker, Paul Ellis, Charley Grapewin. Screenplay: Maurine Dallas Watkins, Milton Herbert Gropper, Edmund Goulding, Benjamin Glazer, based on a novel by Val Lewton. Cinematography: Lee Tover. Film editing: Otho Lovering. Costume design: Travis Banton.

If actors weren't cattle, as Alfred Hitchcock is reported to have said, they were at least property, and their studios treated them as such. Clark Gable was becoming one of MGM's most valuable properties when he was loaned out to Paramount to make the only film in which he starred with Carole Lombard, who later became his wife. It was part of a complicated talent swamp initiated by Marion Davies, who had clout with MGM because of her relationship with William Randolph Hearst, who produced films for her that were distributed by MGM. Davies wanted Bing Crosby for a movie, so Paramount traded him to MGM for Gable and No Man of Her Own. Lombard became his co-star only because Miriam Hopkins didn't want to take second billing to Gable. The studio mountains labored to bring forth a cinematic mouse: a passable romantic comedy remembered only for the star teaming. Gable and Lombard are very good in it, though he comes off somewhat better than she does. Lombard was best in movies that gave her license to clown, like Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934) and My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936). In No Man of Her Own she's simply a woman who knows what she wants, and it isn't necessarily Gable, it's just to get out of the dull little town where she's the librarian. Gable on the other hand is in a role tailor-made for him: "Babe" Stewart, a raffish professional poker player who's as adept at wooing women as he is at cheating at cards. On the verge of getting caught by the detective (J. Farrell MacDonald) who's been tailing him, he skips town and winds up in the burg that Lombard's Connie Randall wants to escape. She catches his eye -- in one pre-Code scene she climbs a ladder and he looks up her skirt -- and with improbable speed they get married. Eventually she finds out that he's not the stockbroker he pretends to be, but nothing fazes her. He gets in trouble again, but just as he's about to take it on the lam, deserting her, he finds of course that he really loves her. The story lacks snap and tension: It was cobbled together from several sources, nominally from a novel by Val Lewton called No Bed of Her Own, a title the Hays Office nixed, but also from another story in Paramount's files. What life the film has comes from Wesley Ruggles's direction and from its performers, including Dorothy Mackaill as Babe's former partner in card-sharping. Lombard and Gable work well together, but reportedly didn't strike any off-screen sparks at the time -- they were both married to other people. They met again at a party four years later and were married in 1939.

#No Man of Her Own #Wesley Ruggles #Clark Gable #Carole Lombard

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 1 year

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Best Clark Gable movies and performances:

1. Gone with the Wind - Victor Fleming (1939)

2. It Happened One Night - Frank Capra (1934)

3. No Man of Her Own - Wesley Ruggles (1932)

4. Red Dust - Victor Fleming (1932)