Saratoga (film)

Saratoga
Theatrical poster
Directed byJack Conway
Screenplay byAnita Loos
Robert Hopkins
Story byAnita Loos
Robert Hopkins
Produced byBernard H. Hyman
StarringClark Gable
Jean Harlow
CinematographyRay June
Edited byElmo Veron
Music byEdward Ward
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • July 23, 1937 (1937-07-23)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.1 million[1]
Box office$3.252 million (worldwide rentals)[1][2]

Saratoga is a 1937 American romantic comedy film starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow and directed by Jack Conway. The screenplay was written by Anita Loos. Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, and Una Merkel appear as featured players; Hattie McDaniel and Margaret Hamilton appear in support. It was the sixth and final film collaboration of Gable and Harlow.

Jean Harlow died before filming was finished, and it was completed using stand-ins. Saratoga was the highest-grossing film of 1937, as well as the highest-grossing film of Harlow's career.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ "Which Cinema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1947?". The Argus. Melbourne. 4 March 1944. p. 3 Supplement: The Argus Weekend magazine. Retrieved 6 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.