What is your favorite 1930s Joan film?

[davidmorrocco]

1936 LOVE ON THE RUN. I watched it on TCM channel last night. Forget the plot or story line, for me it was more about Joan Crawford and Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. I was watching them interact with each other. At the time this movie was made Joan was married to Franchot Tone and Clark was married to Maria Langham. Everyone knows of Joan and Clark’s on and off again love affaires through the prior years of making movies together. They work so well together and we love seeing them together. Joan’s marriage to Franchot is not so stable. She had miscarriages with him. He wasn’t afraid to physically fight with her. He likes to drink a little too much. After a day of shooting a movie he was working on, he wasn’t the type to go home and go over the script for the next day of shooting. He sometimes showed up late to the movie studio. Joan was the opposite and devoted herself to each film she worked on. How much did she talk to Clark about about him? What did Franchot think of working as the second fiddle to both of them? Joan and Franchot and Clark working together would seem to be more than awkward. That’s what made this movie so good for me. I was watching them like a hawk. I know that they had to stay in character while making this film. I either wanted to read a behind the scenes fight to break out with Clark and Franchot or have the three of them jump into bed together. I couldn’t find anything on the internet. I wonder if Joan and Clark were able to stay in control on or off the set of making this movie. Was Franchot watching every move they made? There’s so much more I wish I could have found out. I was able to find some movie trivia. The Lockheed Electra seen in this film is the same one that was flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated around-the-world flight attempt the following year. The seventh of eight film pairings of Crawford and Gable. This film did very well at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $1,284,000 (over $24.2M in 2020) according to studio records. Possibly the first film to feature a "knock-knock" joke. Franchot Tone replaced Robert Young just after production began. MGM bought the rights to the short story by Alan Green and Julian Brodie as a vehicle for Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy. Because Loy was booked solid, the studio re-wrote the script for Montgomery and Jean Harlow, and then for Harlow and Robert Taylor. When Sally (Crawford) meets Michael (Gable) for the first time she tells him how nice it is that someone other than her board of directors cares about her. Joan Crawford would go on to be elected to the board of directors of the Pepsi Cola Company 23 years later in 1959.

[tom]

Jul 15, 2021 13:51:21 GMT -6 davidmorrocco said:

1936 LOVE ON THE RUN. I watched it on TCM channel last night. Forget the plot or story line, for me it was more about Joan Crawford and Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. I was watching them interact with each other. At the time this movie was made Joan was married to Franchot Tone and Clark was married to Maria Langham. Everyone knows of Joan and Clark’s on and off again love affaires through the prior years of making movies together. They work so well together and we love seeing them together. Joan’s marriage to Franchot is not so stable. She had miscarriages with him. He wasn’t afraid to physically fight with her. He likes to drink a little too much. After a day of shooting a movie he was working on, he wasn’t the type to go home and go over the script for the next day of shooting. He sometimes showed up late to the movie studio. Joan was the opposite and devoted herself to each film she worked on. How much did she talk to Clark about about him? What did Franchot think of working as the second fiddle to both of them? Joan and Franchot and Clark working together would seem to be more than awkward. That’s what made this movie so good for me. I was watching them like a hawk. I know that they had to stay in character while making this film. I either wanted to read a behind the scenes fight to break out with Clark and Franchot or have the three of them jump into bed together. I couldn’t find anything on the internet. I wonder if Joan and Clark were able to stay in control on or off the set of making this movie. Was Franchot watching every move they made? There’s so much more I wish I could have found out. I was able to find some movie trivia. The Lockheed Electra seen in this film is the same one that was flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated around-the-world flight attempt the following year. The seventh of eight film pairings of Crawford and Gable. This film did very well at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $1,284,000 (over $24.2M in 2020) according to studio records. Possibly the first film to feature a "knock-knock" joke. Franchot Tone replaced Robert Young just after production began. MGM bought the rights to the short story by Alan Green and Julian Brodie as a vehicle for Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy. Because Loy was booked solid, the studio re-wrote the script for Montgomery and Jean Harlow, and then for Harlow and Robert Taylor. When Sally (Crawford) meets Michael (Gable) for the first time she tells him how nice it is that someone other than her board of directors cares about her. Joan Crawford would go on to be elected to the board of directors of the Pepsi Cola Company 23 years later in 1959.

Pretty interesting about the knock-knock joke. I think earlier, there was something about Montana Moon being the first singing cowboy movie. Then, JC's dress in Letty Lynton sold thousands upon thousands of copies @ Macy's (I think it was). She was quite the trend setter!