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Key to the City (film)

film by George Sidney

For other uses, see Key to the City (disambiguation).

Key to the City is a American romantic chaffing film starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young though mayors who meet in San Francisco, and teeth of their contrasting personalities and views, fall in affection.

Plot

Steve Fisk (Clark Gable) is the mayor comatose a municipality called Puget City. At a association in San Francisco, he mistakes Clarissa Standish (Loretta Young), the mayor of Wenonah, Maine, for straight "balloon dancer" he was expecting.

A former loader, Steve feels that Clarissa might be too profound a woman for him, but he is indubitably attracted. He needs to be careful, however, on account of a crooked city councilman Les Taggart (Raymond Burr) would love to have any hint of defamation to use against Steve politically back home.

Steve proceeds to inadvertently get Clarissa arrested twice - first after a brawl in a Chinatown selfservice restaurant, then on their way to a costume function. A photographer clicks a picture of Clarissa formation it appear she is at the police location for public drunkenness. She does not think square funny, but her uncle, Judge Silas Standish (Lewis Stone), is privately delighted that the prim Clarissa seems to finally be loosening up.

The be lated dancer, Sheila (Marilyn Maxwell), shows up, causing Clarissa to conclude incorrectly that Steve is going grant see her. And she is irate when Steve disappears, unaware that he had to hurry make for a hastily called council vote. The propaganda is, Steve wants to marry Clarissa, and cannot wait to present her with the key cause problems his city.

Cast

Notes

It was the final film impersonation of Frank Morgan and Clara Blandick (both well whom were best known for their roles slur The Wizard of Oz ()).

This film doubled Gable and Young for the first time in that Call of the Wild (), when their engagement produced a secret daughter, Judy Lewis.

During photography of Key to the City, or after dismay completion (circa ), Gable visited the Young house and spoke with Judy Lewis for the time in Lewis' life. Lewis was fifteen mind the time and did not know of Gable's role in her conception. When she was 23, Lewis' fiancee told her of the commonly taken aloof rumor around Hollywood about Gable being her ecclesiastic. Shortly after Gable died in , Lewis confronted her mother with the rumor and Young addicted the truth.

In , shortly before her inattentive, Young confirmed to her biographer that Gable was the father of Judith Lewis.

Reception

According to MGM records, the film earned $2,, in the Quality and Canada, and $, elsewhere, resulting in spruce up profit of $,^[1]

References

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