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Gossip Friday: A Flop Debut
From February 1936: The screen debut of Carole Lombard’s pekingese, “Pushface,” was a decided flop, but gave the blonde star a chance to get off one of her best wisecracks. “Pushface’s” big moment came on the “Love Before Breakfast” set at Universal. He was supposed to make an entrance in a basket of flowers, completely hidden by the blossoms. At a given signal, he was to poke his head out and wait for a closeup. But, every time, he leaped out of the basket and into Carole’s arms before the camera could get a shot. It was after the third unsuccessful take that Carole exploded: “Can you beat it! He…
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Gossip Friday: Book of Outtakes
From March 1936: Just heard an amusing story about Carole Lombard. For years, she has been saving all the portraits of herself that went wrong in the gallery and were never released. Pictures in which she looked awkward or silly. Now she’s had 500 of them bound into a book. ___ If that’s true, wouldn’t we all love to see it!
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Gossip Friday: Better Think Twice
From March 1936: The next time Carole Lombard goes to give anybody a dog, she’ll think twice. The day after she bought a dachshund for Walter Lang, he left for the Orient and deposited the pooch with Carole. Now she has to cart it around the studio with her own two mutts. To make it worse, there is bad blood between Lang’s dachshund and Carole’s Pekingese, “Pushface.”
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Gossip Friday: Not So Hot
From February 1934: Baltimore–Clark Gable, the movie star, who is supposed to send the female heart a-fluttering, may not be so hot. Two hundred and fifty Washington misses were invited to have tea with the one and only Gable, appearing here in a theatrical tour, and 13 came. ___ Poor Clark. Any volunteers?
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Gossip Friday: Update on Clark
From January 1945: The delay in Clark Gable’s return to the screen is due to his refusal to do service pictures. “I turned down several scripts,” Clark tells me, “because they can’t help from making a hero out of you and I wouldn’t feel good about that considering the people who really are doing something about the war.” Clark wants to come back in something that is straight entertainment. Either “Strange Adventure” or “Lucky Baldwin” is okay with him. And now about those persistent rumors that Gable will wed Dolly O’Brien, widow of Jay O’Brien. Clark is close-mouthed about this sort of thing but I don’t believe these two good…
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Gossip Friday: Mob Scene Expert
From March 1934: Kansas City–When Clark Gable gets back to Hollywood he can tell Cecil B. De Mille a few things about mob scenes. The actor paused here last night on his way west and was engulfed by a mob of 2500 women, all screaming for autographs. The more cunning of his admirers descended to the tracks below the union station and climbed over coal cars to waylay him. The train was held ten minutes while Gable made a personal appearance at a theater.
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Gossip Friday: Slightly Hurt
From March 1945: Clark Gable, slightly hurt in a traffic accident, required hospital treatment of a laceration on the right leg and chest injuries, his studio reported. The studio said the movie actor drove his automobile over a curb and into a tree to avoid striking another machine going in the wrong direction. Gable was jammed against the steering wheel. He was resting easily today.
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Gossip Friday: Well Guarded
From February 1934: Baltimore–Clark Gable, film hero, had a police guard today. No, he hasn’t been threatened with kidnapping or anything as dire as that. It’s his feminine admirers that he’s seeking protection from. Arriving here last night to fill a stage engagement, Gable found 1,000 women waiting for him at the railroad station. They almost mobbed him, and it was necessary for him to summon police to disperse the crowd. One girl, police said, hung onto the actor’s neck as he dashed from the station to a waiting automobile.
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Gossip Friday: Goodbye, Uncle Charlie
From March 1945: Aged Uncle of Clark Gable Dies The 85-year old uncle of Clark Gable–Charles Gable, died at his home in Sharpsville, Pa. He was a veteran motion picture theatre operator. Gable frequently visited his famous nephew in Hollywood and became a personal friend of many film stars. He opened the first movie house in Sharon and later operated a theatre in Sharpsville. He is survived by three sons–Ward of Pittsburgh, Roy of Cleveland, and Carl of Detroit.
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Gossip Friday: Hook, Line and Sinker
From January 1934: Now it’s going to be Clark Gable, horseman. With his latest picture finished, Gable is spending all his time looking over prospective racing horses. He has gone for horse racing hook, line and sinker, and is going to buy several horses to race on various western tracks this winter.