Review of Saratoga

Clark Gable does a great job as a bookie and even early on it's easy to see Jean Harlow isn't feeling good. She was dealing with kidney failure, and had had her wisdom teeth pulled in real life while filming this picture...I often wonder how much pain was she in trying to do her scenes. Clark Gable even said she smelled of urine during filming...can't understand why she wasn't hospitalized but it was 1937...very sad she died before the picture was finished... Not a great film, not even what I would call a good film but if your a Gable and Harlow fan you will like it....I think it would have been better with Carol Lombard but who knows... The cigar scene, and the train scenes are my favorite...see if you can spot the wicked witch from the wizard of Oz...and who is that sitting next to her ...hint it's the Wizard ..