Hold Your Man is a 1933 American romantic drama film directed by an uncredited Sam Wood and starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, the third of their six films together. The screenplay by Anita Loos and Howard Emmett Rogers was based on a story by Loos. Small-time con man Eddie Hall hides from his latest victim and a policeman in the first unlocked apartment he can find. It turns out to occupied by Ruby Adams , a cynical woman with numerous boyfriends. When it is safe to come out, Eddie wants to become better acquainted with his pretty rescuer. Although she resists at first, she ends up... falling in love with him. Eddie's partner Slim comes up with a scheme to catch one of Ruby's married admirers in a compromising position and blackmail him, but Eddie finds at the last moment that he cannot bear to have his girl involved in something that sordid. He breaks into Ruby's apartment and punches the would-be victim, accidentally killing him. Eddie escapes, but Ruby is caught and sentenced to a reformatory for two years. One of her fellow inmates turns out to be Gypsy Angecon , Eddie's previous girlfriend.
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| Release date: | July 7, 1933 |
| Directed by: | Sam Wood |
| Runtime: | 87 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sam Wood |
| Editor: | Frank Sullivan |
| Music by: | Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown |
| Cinematography: | Harold Rosson |
| Estimated budget: | $260,000 |