Cain and Mabel

Cain and Mabel is a 1936 romantic comedy film designed as a vehicle for Marion Davies in which she costars with Clark Gable. The story had been filmed before, in 1924, by William Randolph Hearsts 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 Ill 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.

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 Mabels aunt Ruth Donnelly tells Mabel the truth. Mabel abandons her show and rushes to Philadelphia were 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 allout fight against his opponent, until he hears Mabels voice and is knocked down. Reilly confesses to Cain that he was the one who leaked the story, and Cains 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.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 costar. 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 that Davies found Powell attractive. ........

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