Details

Release year: 1950

Storyline

A former war hero and midget car racer meets his match in a feisty reporter who blames his reckless tactics for an accidental racing death.

Top credits

Directors

Clarence Brown

Writers

Cast

Clark Gable — Mike Brannan
Barbara Stanwyck — Regina Forbes
Adolphe Menjou — Gregg
Will Geer — Jack Mackay

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Did you know

• Being in Indianapolis was difficult for Clark Gable personally. The city had been the last stop on a war bond tour in 1942 for his second wife, actress Carole Lombard, before she was to fly back home to Los Angeles. Tragically, Lombard's plane never made it back. It crashed in Nevada killing everyone on board. Theirs had been a happy marriage, and it was a loss from which Gable never recovered. At the time of To Please a Lady (1950) Gable had finally remarried, this time to Douglas Fairbanks' widow, Sylvia Ashley. During filming he seemed happier and healthier than he had in years according to friends. Even so, Gable remembered his beloved late wife while in Indianapolis. He quietly made a point to visit the downtown locations where Lombard had made her final public appearances before meeting her untimely death.

• Because, Barbara Stanwyck was on hand at the Indianapolis Speedway on race day, there's a famous photograph of the legendary actress after the race, in Victory Lane, giving the actual 1950, Indy 500 winner, Johnnie Parsons, an enthusiastic (smack on the lips) congratulatory kiss.

• Clark Gable was a serious racing fan who frequently attended races, including the Indianapolis 500.