B.P. Schulberg decided to give 29 year old Dorothy Arzner a chance at directing a top Paramount production featuring Clara Bow. Charles "Buddy" Rogers was asked how he would feel being directed by a woman and "nice guy" Rogers replied that he'd be happy that anyone wanted to direct him!! Arzner came completely under Clara's spell - she thought Clara was a complete natural and understood every emotion she was asked to exhibit. She couldn't understand how someone with no formal training could have such infallible instincts into what worked and what didn't. Arzner said "they called Clara the "flaming youth", well she was the flaming youth who thought"!!! For all that though, "Get Your Man" was more of the typical "It" formula - sort of an "It Girl Goes to Paris"!!!
I agree with all the reviewers here - Clara was a marvel and could make the most inconsequential film seem like something really special - and this film had no hidden meaning. These "by the numbers" formula films were getting too frequent and Clara must have been getting pretty fed up when her adorable cuteness was milked for all it was worth. In fact the first 15 minutes is a lovely "chase" through Paris with Clara as Nancy Worthington, a lively American girl who is spending her first unchaperoned holiday in the City of Love! She keeps bumping into Robert (Rogers) who has been sent to Paris to get the family pearls re-strung, there are hi-jinks at the Paris wax works and they find love at last. Apparently as part of the missing footage Nancy and Robert find themselves locked in the wax works overnight!!
There are a couple of missing reels but not enough to confuse the viewer. The next scene shows Robert back home and eager to break his engagement - yes he and Simone (lovely Josephine Dunn) have one of those old family engagements that was made official when the two were children. But, surprise!! surprise!! Nancy is already there (the missing reels showed her chasing him to his home without his knowledge and being involved in a motor accident!!). Simone is also not keen on the engagement as she also loves another - Henri!! As Nancy advises her "turn Robert back in circulation and get your man"!!
All this still hasn't stopped Nancy from inventing a fiancé of her own - Tommy Cushion!! - one of the Cushions from Davenport!! By the end, the French style farce has evolved into slapstick with a riotous bedroom romp, so Clara can get rid of a real fiancé, this time the Marquis de Villenue and take her own advice to "get her man"!!!
I agree with all the reviewers here - Clara was a marvel and could make the most inconsequential film seem like something really special - and this film had no hidden meaning. These "by the numbers" formula films were getting too frequent and Clara must have been getting pretty fed up when her adorable cuteness was milked for all it was worth. In fact the first 15 minutes is a lovely "chase" through Paris with Clara as Nancy Worthington, a lively American girl who is spending her first unchaperoned holiday in the City of Love! She keeps bumping into Robert (Rogers) who has been sent to Paris to get the family pearls re-strung, there are hi-jinks at the Paris wax works and they find love at last. Apparently as part of the missing footage Nancy and Robert find themselves locked in the wax works overnight!!
There are a couple of missing reels but not enough to confuse the viewer. The next scene shows Robert back home and eager to break his engagement - yes he and Simone (lovely Josephine Dunn) have one of those old family engagements that was made official when the two were children. But, surprise!! surprise!! Nancy is already there (the missing reels showed her chasing him to his home without his knowledge and being involved in a motor accident!!). Simone is also not keen on the engagement as she also loves another - Henri!! As Nancy advises her "turn Robert back in circulation and get your man"!!
All this still hasn't stopped Nancy from inventing a fiancé of her own - Tommy Cushion!! - one of the Cushions from Davenport!! By the end, the French style farce has evolved into slapstick with a riotous bedroom romp, so Clara can get rid of a real fiancé, this time the Marquis de Villenue and take her own advice to "get her man"!!!