To Please a Lady (1950)

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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Mike Brannan: You figure on doing another column on me?
Regina Forbes: You're only worth a couple of lines now.
Mike Brannan: Well, don't write 'em! I've been risking my neck with this outfit.
Regina Forbes: I hope they pay you well.
Mike Brannan: A hundred bucks a show, and I've been saving every dime. I'm gonna drive with the big cars now, and what you wrote about me doesn't go with them. So I'm warning you. Lay off me in the future.
Regina Forbes: [Amused] You're warning me?
Mike Brannan: You better listen to what I'm saying, or I'll knock that smile off your face!
Regina Forbes: [She laughs at him] Knock it off.
[He slaps her]
Regina Forbes: That's just about what I expect from you.
Mike Brannan: The guys you run around with wouldn't do that, would they? Well, it's time somebody roughed you up a little! I can handle you, baby. You're just another dame to me!
[He grabs her suddenly, kisses her, and leaves for his car. She looks after him with a subtle smile indicating she enjoyed it]

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A young Bill Hickman can be seen as one of the members of Clark Gable's pit crew. Hickman was famous as one of the top movie stunt drivers in Hollywood for many years, and his most notable on-camera role was as the middle-aged, bespectacled driver of the black Dodge Charger that is chased by Steve McQueen's green Ford Mustang in the film Bullitt.
The film featured short-track midget car racing, a highly popular form of auto racing in post-World War II America. From the mid-1930's through the mid-1960's, most drivers who aspired to race in the famous Indianapolis 500 usually started competing in the midgets, then sprint cars (similar in looks, but more powerful and faster than midgets), then to "championship," or Indianapolis-type cars.
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.
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