Too Hot to Handle (1938 film)

Too Hot to Handle
Too Hot to Handle
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jack Conway
Written by	Laurence Stallings; John Lee Mahin; Buster Keaton (uncredited);
Produced by	Lawrence Weingarten
Starring	Clark Gable; Myrna Loy; Walter Pidgeon;
Cinematography	Harold Rosson; Clyde De Vinna (in Dutch Guiana);
Edited by	Frank Sullivan
Music by	Franz Waxman
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's Inc.
Release date	September 16, 1938;
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.5 million
Box office	$2.3 million

Too Hot to Handle, also known as Let 'Em All Talk, is a 1938 comedy-drama directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Walter Pidgeon. The plot concerns a newsreel reporter, the female aviator he is attracted to (influenced by Amelia Earhart, who had disappeared 14 months earlier)^[2] and his fierce competitor. Many of the comedy gags were devised by an uncredited Buster Keaton.

^ ^a ^b "The Eddie Mannix Ledger." Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study (Los Angeles).
^ Paris 1995, p. 115.

[Mannix-1] "The Eddie Mannix Ledger." Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study (Los Angeles).

[2] Paris 1995, p. 115.

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