Hold Your Man is excellent!

I really enjoyed this movie. It had it all sex, intensity, and passion. Jean was excellent. She was very sexy in the beginning then became serious towards the middle and end of the movie. I like her punching scene, she showed she had guts. Jean proved she was more then just a sexpot. I was impressed by her performance. She was very believeable and intensity of the movie brought tears to my eyes, the movies today couldn't capture that type of intensity and passion.

Another person of the movie that moved me was gorgeous black actress Theresa Harris, who appeared with more stars then anyone and a few times she got her time to shine without being sterotyped, for an era where black actors/actresses were forced to play demeaning parts, Theresa was as equal on screen as the white actress as a jail mate. People talk of Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge but not Theresa who has an impressive movie resume. I'm glad MGM wanted to show reality and gave Theresa a chance. I guess that would only happen in the pre-code era. The black actor who played Theresa's father who was a pastor was very moving when he married Jean and Clark. I heard on TCM that the particular scene where Clark and Jean are married by the preacher was actually reshot with a white pastor to show, I guess, down south for the racists who didn't want to see blacks in prominent parts and mixing with whites. The scene with the black preacher was definitely more moving and I'm glad that scene wasn't cut and is shown. Theresa was also great with Barbara Stanwyck in Babyface and with Ginger Rogers in Professional Sweetheart. After the pre-code era she was seen more then heard.

All the actresses in the movie was great, especially Dorothy Burgess, she usually always played the bitch in movies and played it well, sad she didn't become a bigger star, she's mostly forgotten now.

I know from reading about Clark (and his wife Carole) that he wasn't prejudice or anything like, he would go out his way to show kindness to people of color, and I think that's what made the particular scene with the black preacher so real. He was friends with Hattie McDaniels and I think that came across on screen. Does anyone know what was Jean's view on people of color? I remember seeing a documentary on her and a photo was shown with her as a child and there was a black man, I guess a servant or something who was next to her. I wondered who he was. Blues legend Leadbelly sung a song dedicated to Jean when she passed. I thought that was very nice that a black singer would dedicate a song to her in that time era.