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To Please a Lady Overview:

To Please a Lady (1950) was a Action - Romance Film directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown.

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Regina Forbes: [after a spontaneous kiss] What was that for?
Mike Brannan: I just wanted to do it.
Regina Forbes: You're some kind of guy!
Mike Brannan: Well, what can we do for you that already hasn't been done?
Regina Forbes: You can give your eyes a rest and answer a few questions.
Regina Forbes: [In awe of the Indianapolis track] Mike, I've never seen anything like this. It's terrific!
Mike Brannan: So are you.
Regina Forbes: It's like the 4th of July, and a heavyweight fight, and the World Series all rolled into one... Now I can see it takes a certain kind of guy...
Mike Brannan: [after a brief pause] ... and that guy needs a certain kind of dame.
Regina Forbes: Mike, could we start all over?
Mike Brannan: Hey, baby, what we had never stopped.
Mike Brannan: All the soft spots aren't on the track.
Regina Forbes: Well, you keep your mind on the ones that are.
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To Please a Lady Facts
Its failure caused Clark Gable to fall out of the Top Ten Box Office stars list.
At 20:26 in the film, a close-up shows the Sports Final section of the Bainsville daily paper. Under Barbara Stanwyck's photograph (as Regina Forbes) three pictures of "sports stars" are shown: Kathryn Grayson, Walter Pidgeon and Gene Kelly. This must have been an inside-joke as the film and the stars shown were all under contract with MGM.
The finale of the film takes place at the Indianapolis 500. The actual 1950 running of the 500 was used for these scenes. The actual driver of the 17 car for the 1950 Indy 500 was the real Joie Chitwood, featured earlier in the film as the owner of the Thrill Show Brannan was working in. See the Goofs section for continuity issues created by using actual race footage.
The film featured short-track midget car racing, a highly popular form of auto racing in post-World War II America. From the mid-1930's through the mid-1960's, most drivers who aspired to race in the famous Indianapolis 500 usually started competing in the midgets, then sprint cars (similar in looks, but more powerful and faster than midgets), then to "championship," or Indianapolis-type cars.
Clark Gable wanted the name of the movie changed because shortly before filming he married Lady Silvia Ashley and did not want people to make comparisons.
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