Take care of your man

Petty crook Eddie Hall (Clark Gable) is hiding from his last victim and police harassment in the first unlocked apartment he finds. Its owner is Ruby Adams (Gene Harlow), a cynical woman with many fans. When it’s safe to go out, Eddie wants to get to know his savior better. Although she resists at first, she soon falls in love with him.

Comrade Eddie Slim (Harry Aries) comes up with a scheme to catch one of Ruby's fans in a compromising pose and blackmail him, but Eddie comes in at the last moment because he does not want his girlfriend to participate in something dirty. He breaks into Ruby’s apartment, hits a potential victim and accidentally kills. Eddie runs away, Ruby is caught and sentenced to two years in a penal colony. One of her cellmates turns out to be Gypsy Angecon (Dorothy Burgess), Eddie's previous girlfriend.

When Eddie learns from the freed Gypsy that Ruby is pregnant with his child, he comes to her, but as a fugitive, he must therefore pretend to have come to see another prisoner. Even though management is beginning to suspect somewhat, Eddie intends to marry Ruby so that the child does not become illegal. Hiding from the police, he convinces the priest, who visited his capricious daughter, to marry them.

After that, Eddie is caught and imprisoned. When he goes free, he is met by Ruby and their little son. Ruby reports that Al Simpson (Stuart Erwin), who himself wanted to marry her, would arrange Eddie for legal work.

• Gene Harlow - Ruby Adams
• Clark Gable - Eddie Hall
• Stuart Erwin - Al Simpson
• Dorothy Burgess - Gypsy Angecon
• Mariel Kirkland - Berta Dilloe
• Harry Aries - Slim
• Barbara Barondes - Sadie Kline
• Elizabeth Patterson - Miss Tuttle (Head of Correctional Facility)
• Ines Courtney - Macy (prisoner)
• Theresa Harris - Lily May Crippen (prisoner)
• George G. Reed - Rev. Crippen
• Frederici Blanche - Mr. Wagner
• Helen Shipman - Miss Davis
• Paul Garst - Aubrey C. Mitchell
• Louise Beavers

Take care of your man - the working names, which were "Black Orange", "He was her husband" and "Nora" - was at the production stage from April 16 to May 1933.

Harlow and Gable co-starred in six films, and Take Care of Your Man was third, following the highly successful 1932 Red Dust film. The writer Anita Luz also had a wide working relationship with Harlow: this was the second of five films in which they worked together, the first was "Red-haired Woman". Because of the Hayes Code , Louis B. Mayer, chairman of MGM , forced Anita Luz to change the script a little, namely to punish the heroine Harlow for her sins (among them extramarital sex), which is why Ruby spends time in the correctional institution, as well as Ruby and Eddie had to get married.

Critics were aware that the studio tried to grab a piece of the pie and eat it, presenting scandalous behavior at the beginning of the film, which was then justified by punishing characters who were forced to suffer later - a model that would become rare due to the Code of Hays. In the journal Variety , the critic wrote; “The first shots are pretty piquant, but the hot details are handled with the utmost discretion to express maximum effect,” and Frank Nujo of the New York Times noted: “The sudden transition from crude romance to sentimental repentance provides an impetus.”

However, critics praised Harlow and Gable, and the film had an extraordinary box office - $ 1.1 million with a budget of $ 260,000, a profit of 300%. Harlow was on the right track to soon become a big star in Hollywood, and in her next picture, Bomb (1933), she didn't even need an actor-star.

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