Clara Bow

TRUE TO THE NAVY

Paramount-Publix Corp., 1930.  Directed by Frank Tuttle.  Camera:  Victor Milner.  With Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green, Rex Bell.

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Ruby Nolan, a soda jerk in Solomon Bimberg's San Diego drugstore, has a boyfriend on every ship, precipitating a melee among competing factions.  In revenge, they try to persuade the ace gunner (McCoy) on the Mississippi to fall for her; he refuses, but they accidentally meet and the inevitable happens.

At a dancehall in Tijuana, Ruby gives $100 to the manager to be offered as a prize to any couple who will be married on the dancehall floor, but when her rejected suitors appear, Gunner McCoy thinks she is playing him for his money.

Solomon places a bet with some crooked gamblers on Gunner in a shooting match.  Swallowing her pride, Ruby induces Gunner to desist from drinking, and he wins the target practice.

When he sees that Ruby is sincere, they are happily united.

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