Idiot's Delight

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. The most memorable scene: Gable's Puttin' on the Ritz, a wise-guy song-and-dance routine that ends with the King leaping gracefully into the arms of a chorus line of peroxide cuties. Lucky girls!

Director: Clarence Brown
Producer: Hunt Stromberg
Actor: Norma Shearer
Actor: Clark Gable
Actor: Edward Arnold
Actor: Charles Coburn
Actor: Joseph Schildkraut
Actor: Burgess Meredith
Actor: Skeets Gallagher
Actor: Pat Paterson
Actor: William Edmunds
Actor: Fritz Feld
Actor: Virginia Grey
Actor: Lorraine Krueger
Actor: Paula Stone
Actor: Laura Hope Crews
Actor: Peter Willes
Actor: Virginia Dale
Actor: Joan Marsh
Actor: Bernadene Hayes
Actor: Edward Raquello
Actor: Frank Orth
Actor: George Sorel