After Office Hours

After Office Hours is a 1935 crime drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett. The screenplay was written by Herman Mankiewicz.

Plot
Jim Branch (Clark Gable), a newspaper editor, falls for wealthy socialite Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett), after having fired her as a reporter, all the while trying to solve a murder mystery, involving her childhood friend Tommy Bannister. Once Jim discovers that Sharon is involved with all the participants in the murder, she becomes even more attractive to him.

Cast

 * Constance Bennett as Sharon Norwood
 * Clark Gable as James "Jim" Branch
 * Stuart Erwin as Hank Parr
 * Billie Burke as Mrs. Norwood
 * Harvey Stephens as Tommy Bannister
 * Katharine Alexander as Julia Patterson
 * Hale Hamilton as Henry King Patterson
 * Henry Travers as Cap
 * Henry Armetta as Italian diner owner
 * Charles Richman as Jordan
 * Herbert Bunston as Barlow, Norwood's butler
 * Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Murchison
 * William Demarest as police detective
 * Rita La Roy as Branch's Society Girlfriend

Box office
According to MGM records the film earned $759,000 in the US and Canada and $522,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $492,000.