Too Hot to Handle(1938).

Too Hot to Handle(1938). Cast: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Walter Pidgeon. Many of the gags in this film were put together by Buster Keaton.

Journalist Chris Hunter, is famous for being a trickster and he and his assistant Joselito decides to send footage of a fake bombing raid to his rival, Bill Dennis. To get even, Bill stages a "mercy flight" to bring cholera serum to China. As the plane lands Chris drives onto the field in an ambulance and photographs the arrival of the plane, but.. the ambulance gets in the way causing the plane to crash. After Chris saves pilot Alma Harding, she tells him that it was all a joke. Which begins Chris Hunter's and Bill Dennis's, friendly rivalry trying to scoop each other for news. The rivalry gets a little too intense when Alma Harding, becomes their love interest. You will love the zingers and the direction the plot moves from one fun situation to the next.

Virginia Weidler (March 21, 1926 – July 1, 1968), made her first film with Mickey Rooney in, Love Is a Headache (1938). After which Weidler, was cast in larger roles. She was one of the all-female cast of the 1939 film The Women, as Norma Shearer's daughter.

Her next major success was, The Philadelphia Story (1940) in which she played Dinah Lord, the witty younger sister of Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn). After a string of box-office disappointments, her film career ended with the 1943 film, Best Foot Forward.

At her retirement at the age of 17, Weidler had performed in more than forty films, and had acted with some of the biggest stars of the day, including Clark Gable and Myrna Loy in, Too Hot to Handle, Bette Davis in, All This and Heaven Too and Judy Garland in, Babes on Broadway.

Third Finger, Left Hand(1940).

Third Finger, Left Hand(1940). Romantic comedy film. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. With Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn, Lee Bowman.

Editor of a fashion magazine, Margot Sherwood Merrick, thinks it best to pretend that she is married, to fend off suitors and jealous wives. Of course her plans backfire when she meets Jeff Thompson, who falls in love with her. After finding out the truth, Jeff decides to get even with her by pretending to be her estranged husband and moves into Margot's home with her family. Margot asks Philip Booth, the magazine's attorney, for his help. He is also in love with Margot, and has plans of his own to win Margot's heart.

This is a cute comedy, with good acting by Loy and Douglas. One the interesting characters of this film is the train porter Sam, played by Ernest Whitman.

Bonita Granville (February 2, 1923 – October 11, 1988) was the daughter of stage actors, and made her film debut at the age of nine in the film, Westward Passage (1933). Over the next couple of years she played uncredited roles in such films, Little Women (1933) and Anne of Green Gables (1934) before playing the role of Mary in the film, The Children's Hour. Renamed These Three, it told the story of three adults (played by Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, and Joel McCrea) who find their lives almost destroyed by the lies of an evil child. For her role as that child, Granville was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1938, she starred in the film, Merrily We Live and as girl detective Nancy Drew in the film, Nancy Drew, Detective. The Nancy Drew film success led to three sequels from 1938 to 1939, including Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939). As a young adult, she was once again cast in supporting roles, Now, Voyager (1942), and two Andy Hardy films with Mickey Rooney, Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944) and Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946). She is also remembered for her starring role in the film, Hitler's Children (1943). Her career began to fade by the mid-1940s.

She performed in the film version of, The Lone Ranger(1956), and made her final screen performance in a cameo role in, The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981).

Wife VS. Secretary(1936).

Wife vs Secretary(1936),is a comedy film directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown. Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and James Stewart, in one of his first memorable roles. The film was the fifth of six collaborations between Gable and Harlow and the fourth of seven between Gable and Loy.

The story begins when, Magazine publisher Van Stanhope gives his wife a diamond bracelet for their third wedding anniversary. However, Van's secretary, "Whitey", is thought by Van's mother to be a temptation to Van. As well as.. Whitey's boyfriend Dave, who also is not too happy about her relationship with her boss. When Van has to be very secretive to buy J. D. Underwood's weekly, for fear that his rival will buy it out from under him, which causes problems between Van and his wife.

When Van returns from his business meeting with Underwood, he tells Linda that he has been at the club all day, but Linda knows that he has been out with Whitey, who was helping him get ready for his meeting with Underwood. At a skating party, Linda hears from one of the wives that Van and Whitey are most likely having an affair. Linda and Van, get into an argument about it on their way home.

Van plans a trip for himself and Linda, but when he learns that Underwood is at a conference in Havana, changes his plans. Whitey learns of important information about the rival paper, which Van decides that it is best to bring her along to Havana to close the deal. While celebrating the successful closing of the deal, Linda calls and Whitey answers the phone and now she also believes that they are having an affair.



Van returns to New York only to have Linda asking for a divorce. Broken hearted, he asks Whitey to join him on a trip to Bermuda as a friend. Realizing that Van will never love her as much as he loves Linda, she goes to see Linda on the boat to Europe, telling her that she would be a fool to let him go. Will Linda decide to reconcile with Van?

This is one of the, fluffy romantically fun, dramatic classic movies.

Great On Screen Couples: Myrna Loy and Cary Grant.

With Cary Grant's, talent for making the wildest situations seem believable, combined with Myrna Loy's charm and elegance, they complement each others performances, like in the wonderful comedy films: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947). Comedy. Directed by Irving Reis. The screenplay was written by Sidney Sheldon. The story begins when seventeen-year-old Susan Turner, who develops a school girl crush on Richard Nugent, a handsome bachelor who gives a lecture on art at her high school. Susan's uncle, a psychiatrist, manages to talk him into playing along with Susan, hoping that she will soon become bored.



When his efforts fail, he throws himself into the charade hoping Susan's older sister Margaret will put an end to the affair. The film ends with Nugent and Margaret falling in love and Susan returning to her high school sweetheart, Jerry.

Myrna Loy and Cary Grant,second paring, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House(1948). Comedy. Directed by H.C. Potter. It was an adaptation of Eric Hodgins' 1946 novel.

The story begins with Jim Blandings, a account executive in the advertising business, who lives with his wife Muriel and two daughters, in a very small New York apartment. One morning, Jim Blandings, comes across an ad for new homes in Connecticut, seeing how expensive they are they decide on a "fixer upper" house, in Connecticut. Which turns out to be a dilapidated, two hundred-year-old farmhouse. Blandings purchases the property for more than than it is really worth. It turns out that the old house, has to be torn down. The Blandings hire architect to design and supervise the construction of their new home.

The nightmare begins with the well being drilled by Mr. Tesander, who has to go deeper and deeper looking for water, while just days later the contractors accidentally find water while digging the basement for the house, making the earlier drilling a costly waste of time. With no windows installed and the floors freshly varnished they move into their new home.

If that is not enough Jim, has been trying to come up with a slogan for "WHAM". Jim also wonders what is going on between his wife Muriel and his best friend Bill Cole, who spends a night alone together in the house during a violent thunderstorm. With all the expenses and his new assignment, Jim starts to wonder why he wanted to live in the country, in the first place...Will the house ever be finished?

Mr. Blandings Builds his Own House" is a wonderfully funny comedy. Cary Grant is hilarious in the role of a man who wants the American Dream of owning his own home..

Wings In The Dark(1935), is a drama which will remind you a little of, Amelia Earhart and an aeronautical inventor who fall in love. Grant's character does not really care for Loy's character as a circus stunt flier. Loy, tells him that the kind of flying she does, is all that is available to her and she is proving to the world, that women can also fly planes. During an accident Cary goes blind and he gives his plane the ultimate test. The film Wings In The Dark, is a wonderful glimpse of both stars in their earlier years.