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    Idiot's Delight

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    Poster of the movie Idiot's Delight [1939]
    1939     Musical romantic comedy-drama    
    1h 47min
    Original lang.English, Russian
    CountryUSA

    They first meet in Omaha. They meet again years later at the Swiss border...and at the edge of World War II. Clark Gable as smalltime hoofer Harry Van and Norma Shearer as his one-time honey Irene, now passing herself off as a Russian aristocrat and clinging to the arm of a munitions baron, strike sparks in this witty, cogent clash of love and war based on Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Idiot's Delight, released in the same year as Gone with the Wind, shows Gable at his rakish, manly, movie-star best.

    Directed byClarence Brown
    Written byVicki Baum, Robert E. Sherwood
    CompanyMGMMGMMGM

    Starring

    Norma Shearer
    Clark Gable
    Charles Coburn
    Joseph Schildkraut
    Burgess Meredith
    Edward Arnold
    Laura Hope Crews
    Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
    Peter Willes
    Pat Paterson
    William Edmunds
    Fritz Feld
    Virginia Grey
    Virginia Dale
    Paula Stone
    Bernadene Hayes
    Joan Marsh
    Lorraine Krueger

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