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Gossip Friday: A Thousand Girls

By On May 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Gossip

From October 1936:

Did  you ever hear Clark Gable’s grand crack, after he’d lectured before a class at Vassar? Asked how he’d enjoyed the experience, Clark grimaced, replied: “I’d rather talk a thousand times to one girl, than one time to a thousand girls!”

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Gossip Friday: Dog Gone

By On May 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Gossip

From December 1935:

Clark Gable lost a dog. It had an identification tag on his collar. Quite soon, Clark received a letter from a Beverly Hills boy named Johnny Marks.

“Dear Mr. Gable,” wrote Johnny, “I found your dog and I’d like to keep [...]

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May Movie of the Month: Boom Town (1940)

By On May 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Boom Town, Films, Movie of the Month

This month, Clark Gable is a womanizin’ oil chaser, Spencer Tracy is his long-suffering best pal, Claudette Colbert is his best girl, and Hedy Lamarr is his sidedish in Boom Town.

Gable is “Big John” McMasters and Tracy is “Square John” Sand, or as Big John [...]

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Gossip Friday: In Need of a Vacation

By On May 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Gossip

From October 1933:

Clark Gable returned from a “recuperative vacation” in the Northwest only to enter the Cedars if Lebanon Hospital for a tonsil operation! Though he plans to return to MGM for one, and possibly two pictures immediately, the truth of the matter is that Clark [...]

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Spotlight on: Suzanne Dadolle

By On May 4, 2013 · 8 Comments · In Spotlight

French model Suzanne Dadolle doesn’t rank among Carole Lombard, Joan Crawford or Grace Kelly as one of Clark Gable’s great love affairs. But she was on Clark’s arm for over a year while he was overseas in the early 1950′s. That is, until she loused it up….

 

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Gossip Friday: Calling It Quits

By On May 3, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Gossip

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From August 1935:

Clark Gable stated on the set of China Seas, a few days ago, that on May 1st, 1940, he firmly intends to turn in the key to his dressing room and leave pictures forever.

“Even if I am still in demand at [...]

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Gossip Friday: Drives a Ford and Hunts Rabbits

By On April 26, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Gossip

From March 1932:

The height of swank was reached the other day when a Hollywood florist started delivering flowers in a Rolls Royce. At the other extreme, Clark Gable and Wallace Beery, two of the town’s brightest celebrities, drive Fords.

Clark Gable, by [...]

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Gossip Friday: Covered in Oil

By On April 19, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Gossip

From December 1940:

Clark Gable says he hopes he’ll never, NEVER have to play the role of a garbage-collector. Not that garbage-collectors aren’t very nice people, in their place–but look a what happened to Gable for playing that oil-man role in Boom Town-

From his [...]

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April Movie of the Month: Polly of the Circus (1932)

By On April 14, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Films, Movie of the Month

This month, Clark Gable is a straight-laced minister and Marion Davies is his sassy acrobat love interest in Polly of the Circus.

Clark is Father John Hartley, a small town minister living a peaceful life. The circus
comes to town, with its star attraction: trapeze [...]

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{New Article} 1936: Don’t Misunderstand the Clark Gables!

By On April 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Articles

Here is an article from early 1936, when Mrs. Gable was Ria Franklin and all of movie fandom wasn’t whipped up into a frenzy over the pairing of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard yet.  I don’t think most people understood why the reigning hearthrob [...]

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