To Please a Lady (1950)

Vehicle for stars Barbara Stanwyck and Clark Gable, unfortunately it comes about a decade after seeing such a screen paring would have been interesting (though  the two stars did share the screen briefly in the 1931 film Night Nurse, but not as love interests). Anyway the forced plot cast Stanwyck  as Regina Forbes a wildly successful columnist and radio personality who seemingly destroys the car racing career of bad boy former medal of honor winner Mike Brannan (Gable). The two have a hate/hate, followed by a love/hate, then a hate/love, and finally a love/love relationship. The film is weak, clichéd, and mostly boring, even the casting of the usually enjoyable Adolphe Menjou as Stanwyck's assistant doesn't add much to the proceedings. The only real interesting parts of the film are the period racing sequences, and that's largely because they serve as interesting artifacts of  IndyCar racing pre Mario Andretti era. Disappointing. **