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A Masterpiece!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Clark Gable and his great love, Carole Lombard, only made one film together - this one, "No Man of Her Own" - and they weren't even a couple. At the time of "No Man of Her Own," Lombard was married to William Powell, and Gable to a socialite named Maria Franklin. When he fell for Lombard a few years after this movie was made, it was some time before Franklin would give him a divorce.A mustacheless Gable plays a cheating card shark who, while on the lam, meets a librarian (Lombard) and marries her. He's not planning that it be permanent; along the way, they fall in love.Both stars are very good and have great chemistry. She's beautiful, and he's just one sexy devil with that smile and the way he looked at a woman. Pretty devastating, with or without the mustache. A great screen presence.Someone commented that had Lombard not died, she would have signed with MGM and been paired with Gable in more films. It would be wonderful to have them together more than once. In 1937, in fact, when Jean Harlow died during the making of "Saratoga," Gable recommended that she be replaced with Lombard. Lest anyone think that was insensitive - the situation of a star dying in the middle of a film was new to everyone, no one knew how it would be handled, and poor Gable thought he was helping. People back then didn't think in terms of leaving a legacy and last films. So we're stuck with the pre-code "No Man of Her Own." Not bad, not great, of interest because of its two stars.

The nineteen-thirties saw a lot of comedies made. And this was one of many comedies made during the height of the Depression.But, it wasn't the first time for Gable and Lombard to be in comedy, although it was the first and only time that the two were together in a movie (they got married, for real, in 1939).'Babe' Stewart (Clark Gable) is the boss of a gang of card snipes, working the short con on any suckers they can find – rich ones, that is. After a bungled session, he goes on the lam to upstate New York and stops at Glendale, where he meets the local librarian, Connie Randall (Carole Lombard). He's so impressed with her, he agrees to marry her -- on the toss of a coin, no less – and they return to New York where he spends the next few months trying to keep the secret of his wealth from Connie.Before things unravel for Babe, he decides to fake a trip to South America while he voluntarily gives himself up to the cop who's been trying to pin a rap on him for years – thereby getting the cops off his back once and for all, and hence able to settle down to genuine married life with Connie whom, he thinks, knows nothing of his criminal life and duplicity.How wrong can Babe be? See the movie and find out...I'm a Classic Hollywood fan, of all genres, so I was glad to finally catch this one on DVD. The print was pretty good, so the sound and picture quality were great. And, like many other movies of that era, the settings were very much like stage productions, as though you are sitting in a live theatre: actors crisscrossing in front of the camera, very few reverse angle shots, and none-too-tight framing of the main characters, especially when in a lovers' clinch.Philosophically, the story raises an interesting aspect about their marriage: at the end, just what is the basis for their bond? Is their love based on mutual love, or mutual lies?

I mainly got this out because I wanted to see some eye candy: Clark Gable and the wonderful Carole Lombard (plus all the wonderful '30s fashions). It's a good screwball comedy, but a little boring until Carole Lombard comes into the picture. I found some scenes unnecessary and a little boring, but there are some genuinely good scenes with Lombard in it - she really is the queen of screwball comedies. Her comic timing is wonderful. I was very much impressed. Clark is as usual very handsome and sexy. I'm not familiar with the pre Hollywood code but I guess this would be fairly risqué as Carole is shown in her underwear. A good movie, nothing special, but fun to watch.

No Man of Her Own is a pleasant film, nothing terribly bad or terribly good about it. It is remembered today as the only pairing of that star-crossed couple Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. At the time this was made Gable and Lombard were not an item. They became one about four or five years after No Man of Her Own was filmed. It's not on the top 10 list of either star.Gable is a gambler/con artist who's forced by circumstance to beat it out of New York and he flees for a small suburb where he meets librarian Carole Lombard and marries her. That's as far as I'm going with the telling of the plot.Lombard was with Paramount at the time this was made and Gable was on loan out from MGM. There's none of the Lombard we knew and loved in such classics as Twentieth Century or My Man Godfrey here. She's a pleasant enough screen heroine though. Gable does well in his part, but doesn't set the world on fire.If someone had only predicted that Gable and Lombard and their marriage would be come legendary. I'm sure they would have been given a much better film property. I always felt that if Lombard had not been killed in that plane crash in 1942 she would have eventually signed with MGM and L.B. Mayer would have paired her with Gable in the way Katharine Hepburn signed with MGM after the success of Woman of the Year with Spencer Tracy. You might have had a few films to remember Gable and Lombard by.