To Please a Lady is a 1950

1950 in film

The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:*Ambush...

 drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 film produced and directed by Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown was an American film director.-Early life:Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was 11. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, both in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating from the university at the age of...

 and starring Clark Gable

Clark Gable

William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...

 and Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra...

. The climactic race scene was shot at the Indianapolis Speedway

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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, Indiana

Indiana

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, USA.

Plot synopsis

Racing driver Mike Brannan (Clark Gable), has a bad reputation. Columnist Regina Forbes (Barbara Stanwyck) tries to interview Brannan, but he refuses. Regina then sees Brannan involved in a crash in which another driver (Joe Youghal) is killed. Her column

Column

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 suggests that Brannan caused the accident deliberately, which leads to his disbarment from the racing circuit. Brannan begins driving in a stunt show and eventually he earns enough money to buy a car of his own and enter the big race himself.

Cast

• Clark Gable
  Clark Gable
  William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...
  
   - Mike Brannan
• Barbara Stanwyck
  Barbara Stanwyck
  Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra...
  
   - Regina Forbes
• Adolphe Menjou
  Adolphe Menjou
  Adolphe Jean Menjou was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies, appearing in such films as The Sheik, A Woman of Paris, Morocco, and A Star is Born...
  
   - Gregg
• Will Geer
  Will Geer
  Will Geer was an American actor and social activist. His original name was William Aughe Ghere. He is remembered for his portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series, The Waltons....
  
   - Jack Mackay
• Roland Winters
  Roland Winters
  Roland Winters was an American actor who portrayed Charlie Chan in six films.-Biography:Born Roland Winternitz in Boston, Massachusetts on 22 December 1904, Winters was the son of Felix Winternitz, a violinist and composer who was teaching at New England Conservatory of Music...
  
   - Dwight Barrington
• William C. McGaw - Joie Chitwood
• Lela Bliss - Regina's secretary
• Emory Parnell
  Emory Parnell
  Emory Parnell was an American vaudevillian and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36 year career...
  
   - Mr Wendall
• Frank Jenks
  Frank Jenks
  Frank Jenks acid-voiced supporting actor, began in vaudeville and went on to a long career in movies and television, mostly in comedy. He was one of the more familiar faces and voices of the Hollywood Studio era. For almost ten years beginning in the early 1920s, Jenks was a song and dance man...
  
   - Press agent
• Helen Spring - Janie
• Bill Hickman
  Bill Hickman
  William "Bill" Hickman was a stunt driver/actor from the 1950s through to the late 1970s. Hickman played a major role in terms of development and execution in three of the greatest movie car chase sequences of all time....
  
   - Mike's pit crew
• Lew Smith - Mike's pit crew
• "Bullet" Joe Garson - Joe Youghal