Saratoga is a 1937 American romantic comedy film starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow and directed by Jack Conway.

Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, and Una Merkel appear as featured players; Hattie McDaniel and Margaret Hamilton appear in support.

[citation needed] The bank is taking the stud from Grandpa Clayton and the family's Brookvale Farm in Saratoga.

Snooty granddaughter Carol, a bombshell seeking to acquire a European patina, calls from an English estate.

Fritzi tells Duke that her new husband, cold cream magnate Jesse Kiffmeyer, is allergic to horses.

Gambling everything, Duke accepts Hartley's $100,000 wager on Moonray to win, confident he will still triumph with top jockey Dixie Gordon on Dubonnet.

Although screenwriter Robert Hopkins originally intended the script to be a vehicle for Harlow,[3] the studio at first attempted to borrow Carole Lombard from Paramount Pictures for the lead role, but could not do so because of contractual difficulties.

She was dealing with the aftermath of oral surgery to remove impacted wisdom teeth and had suffered sun poisoning in the months before filming.

Unbeknownst to Harlow, she was also dying of renal failure caused by complications of scarlet fever that she contracted as a child.

[4] Although approximately 90% of the film was finished, MGM planned to shelve the footage with Harlow and reshoot her scenes with Virginia Bruce or Jean Arthur.

[3][4] Saratoga was released on July 23, 1937, barely seven weeks after Harlow's death, which was one reason it became one of the year's highest-grossing films.

[4] Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, claiming that it demonstrated "more than curiosity value".

Greene noted that Harlow's acting achieved a high point in her career, and praised the film as having been "skilfully sewn-up [in such a way that] the missing scenes and shots lend it an air of originality which the correctly canned product mightn't have had: the story proceed[ing] faster, less obviously: the heroine less unduly plugged".