Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk (1941)

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Data de estreia
1941-10-01
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (19)
Duração
1 h 45 min
Géneros
Faroeste, Drama, Romance
Realizador
Jack Conway

Elenco

Curiosidades

Honky Tonk is a 1941 American historical western comedy drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner. The supporting cast features Claire Trevor, Frank Morgan, Marjorie Main, Albert Dekker and Chill Wills. The film follows a corrupt con man and grifter who rises to power over a small Nevada gold rush town. Produced by Pandro S. Berman, the film was made and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Production

Honky Tonk marked the first of four pairings of Clark Gable and Lana Turner. Gable and Turner were paired again in Somewhere I'll Find You (1942). They made two other films together, Homecoming (1948) and Betrayed (1954).

When cast, Lana Turner was only twenty years old, but experiencing a career high, having just starred in the successful films Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Ziegfeld Girl. MGM was looking to make Turner its replacement for the deceased platinum beauty Jean Harlow and therefore cast her alongside the "King of Hollywood" himself, Clark Gable.

Turner was thrilled at the opportunity of working with Gable, but he was not. She was twenty years his junior and quite green to the world of Hollywood. When reading lines with her idol, Turner was flustered, and blundered quite often. Gable said, "She couldn't read lines. She didn't make them mean anything; it was obvious she was an amateur."

Nevertheless, the pairing proved successful, and their steamy scenes together were unnerving to almost everyone, including Gable's wife Carole Lombard. She knew that he had an affinity for blondes, and upon hearing of Turner's casting, went to production head Louis B. Mayer and told him to specifically tell Turner that Gable was entirely off-limits.

Lombard had a habit of making surprise visits to the sets and was noticeably present during the bedroom scene with Turner and Gable. Turner was so intimidated by Lombard's presence that she went into her dressing room and refused to come out. When she did, Lombard was nowhere to be found.

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