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Saratoga

Saratoga

  • Status: Released
  • 23-07-1937
  • Runtime: 92 min
  • Score: 6.2
  • Vote count: 18

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Jean Harlow

Carol Clayton

Clark Gable

Duke Bradley

Lionel Barrymore

Grandpa Clayton

Frank Morgan

Jesse Kiffmeyer

Walter Pidgeon

Hartley Madison

Una Merkel

Fritzi Kiffmeyer

Hattie McDaniel

Rosetta

George Zucco

Dr. Bierd

Margaret Hamilton

Lady at Kiffmeyer's table in train dining car

Jonathan Hale

Frank Clayton

Cliff Edwards

Tip

Frankie Darro

Dixie Gordon

Henry Stone

Hurley

Ruth Gillette

Mrs. Hurley

Dennis O'Keefe

Party guest

John Hyams

Horse Owner (uncredited)

Si Jenks

Gardener (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

Horse Race Bit (uncredited)

Bert Roach

Passenger on Train (uncredited)

Wanda Perry

Girl at the Racetrack (uncredited)

barrymost

A sadly unfitting swan Song for Jean Harlow. Plot in a nutshell: Romantic comedy concerning the relationship between a sly bookie and a horse breeder's snobbish daughter. Comments: The good cast tries hard to make this work, but ultimately, the material is far beneath its stars. While slightly amusing at times, on the whole it is a pretty boring film. Some morbid trivia surrounds the film. First of all, Jean Harlow died two-thirds of the way through production, and had to be doubled in part of the latter half of the movie. The doubling is clumsily handled, as you can clearly tell when it's not her. Secondly, shortly after Jean Harlow's death, Lionel Barrymore tripped over a cable that was carelessly left lying about, and broke his hip for the second time, resulting in his being confined to a wheelchair. Harlow's death made the film one of the year's biggest moneymakers, but it undoubtedly would not have been nearly as successful without her demise. The end result is rather sad, really. If only these actors could have suffered for the sake of a good film! "Say, we got more dead horses on this place than live ones!" ~Grandpa Clayton (Lionel Barrymore)