A great movie, Black minister marries White couple
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... interracial couple married. " Hold Your Man" is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film" ... they killed they prevailing views of the times that the Races could live together, work together, and even marry. The catholic church is the guilty, proposing censorship of movie themes, all the while Fucking little kids and Nuns.
Small-time con man Eddie Hall (Clark Gable) hides from his latest victim and a policeman in the first unlocked apartment he can find. It turns out to occupied by Ruby Adams (Jean Harlow), 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 (Garry Owen) 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 (Dorothy Burgess), Eddie's previous girlfriend.
When Eddie learns from a released Gypsy that Ruby is pregnant with his child, he visits her; but, as a fugitive, he has to pretend to be there to see another inmate. Even though the authorities become suspicious, Eddie is determined to marry Ruby so his child will not be illegitimate. With the police closing in, instead of escaping he persuades a minister visiting his wayward daughter to marry them.
Afterwards, Eddie is caught and sent to prison. When he gets out, he is welcomed by Ruby and their young son. Ruby announces that Al Simpson (Stuart Erwin), who had wanted to marry her himself, has gotten Eddie a legitimate job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_Your_Man
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