Clark Gable in “Too Hot To Handle”

Northern Advocate, 18 March 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

Clark Gable in “Too Hot To Handle”

Twenty young Chinese doing the “Big Apple” in a Shanghai cafe sounded the signal for Clark Gable and Myrna Loy to go back to work in their seventh picture together.

With praises for their recent work in “Test Pilot” still ringing in their ears, Gable and Miss Loy began their new co-starring roles in “Too Hot to Handle,” the story of daring newsreelmen covering epic news events around the world.

The opening scenes for their new picture were filmed in a replica of a bamboo-latticed cocktail lounge in Shanghai’s International Settlement, with Gable filming the “Big Apple” for one of his newsreels. Miss Loy’s role is that of a courageous flyer who first meets Gable when she crashes her plane while landing in China. From Shanghai ruins, the action swings swiftly across the Pacific to bustling New York, then to the serenity of a Pennsylvania farm and finally - into the Amazonian jungles to rescue Miss Loy’s brother, a 'missing aviator. Walter Pidgeon plays the role of Gable’s rival for news shots and Miss Loy’s affections, Walter Connolly is seen as Gable’s boss and Leo Carrillo has the role of the star’s soundman. The remainder of the cast includes Johnny Hines, Virginia Weidler, Betty Ross Clarke, Henry 'Kolker, Willie Fung, and Patsy O’Connor. The picture was directed for Jack Conway who filmed the successful “A Yank at Oxford.”

Don Ameche, star of 20th CenturyFox’s ‘.‘Gateway,” has decided to purchase a cabin in the High Sierras. Between the production of “Gateway” and “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” Don spent a week fishing at June Lake, California. He was, it was reported, so delighted with the virginal charm of the mountain fastness, that he chose a section of land for his cabin site.

If present intentions are realised, there wiil be' an all-star cast in - “Juarez,” consisting of Bette Davis, i Paul Muni, Edward C. Robinson, and 3 John Garfield. The first two mentioned certainties.