struggle in the mid seventy just before the blockbuster era settle in and hollywood look back to it history for material and and this be one of the result . base on a pretty good book by warren g. harris and the problem with gable and lombard isn not so much the acting ( brolin do what he can in a no win situation and and clayburgh halfway decent and though it nearly impossible to suspend disbelief and believe she lombard ) and but the script . it awful and and bad and historically inaccurate in so many way ( unlike the book ) . first of all and clark and carole initially meet film no man of her own when gable be loan to paramount in late 1932 and while lombard be marry to william powell while they get along well on the set and but no spark fly and from all account they do not keep in touch . second and lombard be never a big star than gable ( although at the peak of her career and she be the high salaried star in the industry thanks to her shrewd business sense ) . both elevate their rank in 1934 and ironically through film at columbia it happen one night for clark and twentieth century for carole . her only film at mgm also come that year and but it wasn not with gable while it be a gangster comedy call the gay bride and sort of a thirty marry to the mob ( in fact and that phrase be actually use in the film ) . carole always call it the bad film of her career ( although and personally and i deem it far superior to her lone foray at warner and fool for scandal in 1938 ) . third and and perhaps most inexcusable to me and be have gable in uniform at the time of carole death in a 1942 plane crash return from a war bond rally in her native indiana . lombard be far more interested in world affair than gable and and many believe clark enlist out of guilt for what have happen to his wife something that would have be far more poignant than what be show on screen . ( there also be conjecture that gable and lana turner and who be make somewhere i will find you and be have an affair at the time of carole death and and that lombard decide to fly home because of her suspicion . since turner be alive in 1976 and one can understand why the script do not touch this issue . ) all in all and a mediocre film about two personality who deserve far well treatment and especially since both be and by all account and generally good people and acknowledge a such by those who work with them . lombard in particular deserves a decent biopic and a her timeless and iconoclastic quality still resonate today .