Saratoga

At the height of an important race – just after his daughter Carol (Jean Harlow-Dinner at Eight) returns from a long stay in Europe – Frank Clayton dies of a heart attack. Duke (Clark Gable-Gone With The Wind) offers to forgive the debt., Jean Harlow (in her last film) is the devoted farmer’s daughter for whom the lure of the race track (and gambler Clark Gable) proves just too irresistible., Jean Harlow is the devoted farmer’s daughter for whom the lure of the race track (and smooth gambler Clark Gable) proves just too irresistible. This proved to be Harlow’s last film: she collapsed before shooting was completed and died soon afterwards., In this the last film for famed actress Jean Harlow (she died during its production). Harlow appears as a poor girl from a horse-breeding family whose business has been purchased by wealthy bookie Clark Gable. At first they fight like two tomcats–Harlow is engaged to one of Gable’s racetrack competitors and she tries to assist her fiancee in his schemes to thwart Gable–but soon it is Gable and Harlow who are in love. Following Harlow’s death a stand-in was found and the final scenes were completed. Some feel this is Harlow at her finest., A bookie and a horse farmer’s daughter fall in love as they try to gamble back funds to eradicate a debt. Jean Harlow’s final movie.