Too Hot to Handle (1938 film)

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Too Hot to Handle is a 1938 American adventure-comedy film starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy as rival newsreel reporters competing for a big story.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
basedOn original screenplay
cinematographyBy Harold Rosson NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Jack Conway NERFINISHED
distributor Loew's Inc. NERFINISHED
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
editedBy Frank E. Hull NERFINISHED
filmEditingStudio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED
filmingProcess 35 mm
format black-and-white
genre adventure
comedy
hasFilmPoster theatrical release poster
hasTheme journalism
romantic rivalry
sensationalism in newsreels
leadActor Clark Gable NERFINISHED
leadActress Myrna Loy NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Alma Harding NERFINISHED
Chris Hunter NERFINISHED
musicBy Franz Waxman NERFINISHED
originalLanguage English
partOf Hollywood studio-era films
plotSummary Rival newsreel reporters compete for a big story involving an aviatrix and a supposed Amazon jungle rescue.
portrayedBy Clark Gable NERFINISHED
Myrna Loy NERFINISHED
producer Hunt Stromberg NERFINISHED
productionCompany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
releaseDate 1938-09-16
releaseYear 1938
runtimeMinutes 96
screenwriter Ben Hecht NERFINISHED
Herman J. Mankiewicz NERFINISHED
John Lee Mahin NERFINISHED
setInPeriod 1930s
setting New York City
South America NERFINISHED
soundMix mono
starPairing Clark Gable and Myrna Loy NERFINISHED
starring Clark Gable NERFINISHED
Lionel Barrymore NERFINISHED
Myrna Loy NERFINISHED
Walter Connolly NERFINISHED
Walter Pidgeon NERFINISHED
storyBy Ladislas Fodor NERFINISHED

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Jack Conway (film director) directed Too Hot to Handle (1938 film)
subject surface form: Jack Conway