A former war hero and midget car racer meets his match in a feisty reporter who blames his reckless tactics for an accidental racing death.
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain and boo him mercilessly. Independent, beautiful reporter Regina Forbes tries to interview him but is put off by his gruff chauvinism, and when Brannon's daredevil tactics cause the death of a fellow driver, he finds himself a pariah in the sport thanks to her articles. When she finds him earning money as a barnstorming daredevil driver hoping for a comeback, they begin to become mutually attracted.
Gable and Stanwyck did one other film together at the beginning of talking pictures. It was called Night Nurse and Barbara was the lead and Gable an up and coming supporting player.<br/><br/>A generation later and they&#39;re both screen legends. I would have hoped that MGM would have given them something better. It&#39;s not that it&#39;s a bad film, the racing sequences are quite good and exciting. But To Please A Lady was definitely a B picture.<br/><br/>I have a theory that Gable wanted to do this for pleasure. After World War II, Gable and Stanwyck&#39;s husband Robert Taylor both took up racing; motorbikes, automobiles, you name it. MGM put a stop to it, not wanting to have two of its most expensive properties out risking their necks for fun. That&#39;s why we have stunt men. It took the decline of the studio system before a newer generation of stars like James Garner, Paul Newman and most of all Steve McQueen could pursue racing without studio interference.<br/><br/>Gable is the race car driver and Barbara Stanwyck is the Dorothy Thompson type columnist who at first dislikes him and then falls for him big time. Lots of similarities in their relationship to Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in Woman of the Year. No comedic moments in this one though.<br/><br/>Both Gable and Stanwyck deserved something more memorable than To Please A Lady.
Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck star in &quot;To Please a Lady,&quot; a 1950 film directed by Clarence Brown. Adolphe Menjou also stars.<br/><br/>It took Gable&#39;s career a while to get back on track - excuse the pun - after World War II. He was older than the other matinée idols, he was a grieving widower when he returned from the war, and the indelible image he had created as Rhett Butler would haunt him. It wasn&#39;t until the mid-fifties that he really found his groove with some very good films.<br/><br/>This is one of the ordinary type films Gable made during this period, and here he&#39;s joined by Barbara Stanwyck as a sharp columnist. She is critical of midget car racer Gable when, during a race, another driver is killed, and he was part of the collision. She basically destroys his career in midget car racing. After some stunt driving, he earns enough to buy a car to enter the big car races. Feeling at first guilty about hurting his career, Stanwyck seeks him out while he&#39;s stunt driving; they fall for one another, but she can&#39;t get past his ruthlessness in competition.<br/><br/>Both stars are very good. Stanwyck did these cold businesswomen well. She&#39;s moving here into older women roles, her wonderful figure intact.<br/><br/>There is a lot of speedway racing in this film.<br/><br/>This movie is pleasant enough, but it would have been nice if stars of this stature could have been given a really top-notch script and production values.


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