Clark Gable
Russell "Russ" Ward
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United States. Language. English. Box office. $2.5 million (est. US/ Canada rentals) [1] But Not for Me is a 1959 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Clark Gable, Carroll Baker and Lilli Palmer. [2] It was distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the 1934 play Accent on Youth written by Samson Raphaelson .
But Not for Me: Directed by Walter Lang. With Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Lee J. Cobb. Without a new play and money, a 55 y.o. Broadway theater producer retires.
- (586)
- Comedy, Romance
- Walter Lang
- 1959-08-19
But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown (Carroll Baker), she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald (Lee J. Cobb) to rewrite his ...
- (78)
- Walter Lang
- Romance, Comedy
- Clark Gable
Synopsis. Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown, she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown ...
- Walter Lang
- 111 min
- 11
8/10. Late Gable film is a good spoof and look at Broadway. SimonJack 12 January 2019. "But Not for Me" is one of the last films that Clark Gable made. The "king of Hollywood" had made some of the best comedy and drama romances of the first three decades of sound movies. He died at age 59 of a heart attack in 1960.
BUT NOT FOR ME. A veteran Broadway producer has a fling with his young drama student-secretary who truly loves him. When he realizes that he can't use her to regain his lost youth he turns the romance into the subject of his play. 51 IMDb 6.3 1 h 44 min 1959. X-Ray 7+.
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The article praised the many other "inside jokes" in the picture, including one about "popcorn `saving' the movie industry." According to an September 11, 1959 Hollywood Reporter news item, But Not for Me was the first film to be advertised on Jack Paar's popular late-night television talk show. The news item noted that Paar was "to participate ...
