To Please a Lady (1950)

Mike Brannan: All the soft spots aren't on the track.
Regina Forbes: Well, you keep your mind on the ones that are.

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Regina Forbes: [In awe of the Indianapolis track] Mike, I've never seen anything like this. It's terrific!
Mike Brannan: So are you.
Regina Forbes: It's like the 4th of July, and a heavyweight fight, and the World Series all rolled into one... Now I can see it takes a certain kind of guy...
Mike Brannan: [after a brief pause] ... and that guy needs a certain kind of dame.

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Regina Forbes: Mike, could we start all over?
Mike Brannan: Hey, baby, what we had never stopped.

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Clark Gable wanted the name of the movie changed because shortly before filming he married Lady Silvia Ashley and did not want people to make comparisons.
The finale of the film takes place at the Indianapolis 500. The actual 1950 running of the 500 was used for these scenes. The actual driver of the 17 car for the 1950 Indy 500 was the real Joie Chitwood, featured earlier in the film as the owner of the Thrill Show Brannan was working in. See the Goofs section for continuity issues created by using actual race footage.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onNovember 26, 1951 with Adolphe Menjou reprising his film role.
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