To Please a Lady (1950)

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

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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: [after a spontaneous kiss] What was that for?
Mike Brannan: I just wanted to do it.
Regina Forbes: You're some kind of guy!

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At 20:26 in the film, a close-up shows the Sports Final section of the Bainsville daily paper. Under Barbara Stanwyck's photograph (as Regina Forbes) three pictures of "sports stars" are shown: Kathryn Grayson, Walter Pidgeon and Gene Kelly. This must have been an inside-joke as the film and the stars shown were all under contract with MGM.
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.
Its failure caused Clark Gable to fall out of the Top Ten Box Office stars list.
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