Cain and Mabel

Cain and Mabel (OT: Cain and Mabel ) is an American film comedy revue with numerous numbers from 1936 with Marion Davies and Clark Gable in the lead roles. The financial failure of the film accelerated the end of the film career of Marion Davies.

Action

Aloysius K. Reilly, a happy and unemployed reporter wins by a carelessness that the waitress Mabel O'Dare loses her job because of him. He tries to make up for his misfortune again by being able to Mabel, who sing a little and dance a little, gives a job as a showgirl. By chance receives Mabel, whose talents are rather limited, suddenly the lead role in the show. Mabel tries her best and performs every night to learn their few dance steps. As she learns the heavyweight boxer Larry Cain know. Aloysius recognizes the potential of free publicity for both of them, when he staged the two as America's new dream couple. Although Mabel and Cain actually hate, they are participating in the swindle that suggests huge waves soon. Everyone is talking only of the romance of these disparate characters and takes a keen interest in the course of their relationship. In the end, Cain and Mabel fall in love with each other and then still draw after marriage to New Jersey, where Cain operates an auto repair shop.

Background

Marion Davies began her film career in the late 1910s thanks to the active support of her lover, the media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The Cosmopolitan Productions founded his own production company and gave Davies lucrative contracts only at Paramount Pictures from 1924 at MGM. She earned $ 10,000 a week and soon became a popular actress in light comedies. Despite a slight stuttering Davies made ​​the jump to the talkies, but gradually began to fade their popularity. While Hearst saw they prefer in highly dramatic roles on the big screen, the audience preferred Davies in contemporary subjects. After the flop of Polly of the Circus, which they showed to the side of Clark Gable in 1931, the end of the collaboration with MGM was foreseeable. The break finally came in 1934 when Irving Thalberg the express request of Hearst denied Davies the lead roles in The Barretts of Wimpole Street and Marie- Antoinette to give. In both cases, his wife Norma Shearer took over the roles and Hearst ended the collaboration. After some negotiations about conditions and participation rights in an agreement with Warner Brothers was made. In the production of Cain and Mabel was not yet saved at a cost of effort. With Clark Gable Davies the biggest male star was ever provided to the side. At the same time the script was trying to put the comedic talent of Marion Davies back to the forefront. But Hearst insisted on extensive revue numbers, although Davies is neither a particularly talented dancer was still a good singer. The finished result proved at the box office as unpopular and Marion Davies retired in 1937 from the canvas back.

Reviews

The unanimous consensus was that the two stars are completely miscast. Newsweek brought the matter to the point when they performed quite figuratively, Gable and Davies would fit into the film as a thick hand in too small a glove. Too much talent would be a much too thin story face. ( " Clark Gable and Marion Davies fit in this picture like a fat hand squeezed into a small glove. Too much talent for seeking a skimpy, thinly woven plot did unravels in a trite series of moments rather than a well constructed- tale. " )

Awards

At the Academy Awards in 1937, the film received a nomination in the category

  • Best Dance Director
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