Saratoga (1937)
7/10
well worth watching if you are a film buff
15 July 2005
This was the last film that Jean Harlow appeared in during her brief career. You might notice I wrote "appeared in" and not "completed"--that is because she died in mid-production from a minor illness complicated by her and her mother's religious beliefs (which forbade the use of doctors or traditional medicine).

So, Hollywood did what they could to both salvage the film they already shot AND capitalize on her death--they CONTINUED with the film using her stand-in. However, as she was obviously NOT Ms. Harlow, they shot her from behind--often wearing a very large hat to obscure her and having a slightly different voice. Because of this, it's fun to watch to try to spot the REAL and the FAKE Harlow.

Apart from this, this is a decent MGM Harlow-Gable film. Not extraordinary but still quite good and a lot better than one of their earlier pairings in Hold On To Your Man.
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