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Gossip Friday: Good Day for Golf

By On March 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Gossip

From September 1940:

Living in Hollywood is more or less like renting a perpetual reserved room in a madhouse. At 8am of a Sunday this journalist drove to Fox Hills golf course for his usual weekly game, still half asleep. Approaching the first tee he [...]

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{Photos} Clark Gable and…

By On February 28, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Photos

Some of my favorite finds when I am scouring through old fan magazines are candids of random stars together. “I never knew that Blank ever even met Blank!” I often think, particularly now during “awards show season”, how the generations to come won’t feel similar joy, since there are thousands of pictures taken at every [...]

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Gossip Friday: Holiday Greetings from…

By On December 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Gossip

From a fan magazine, here are hand-signed holiday wishes from several stars of the golden era, including Olivia de Havilland, Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Jeanette MacDonald, James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant and more. No, Clark and Carole aren’t included, but I thought it a [...]

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Gossip Friday: Clark’s Stand-in

By On November 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Gossip

From July 1940:

On the set of “Boom Town”, Mickey Rooney dropped by for a visit with his idol, Clark Gable. Gable was doing a scene with Hedy Lamarr, in which the weeping actress threw herself down on a couch. Gable was supposed to come up to [...]

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Oscar Night…Minus Clark and Carole

By On February 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Academy Awards

The Academy Awards are tonight, so I thought I would post something about the night “Gone with the Wind”won it big–February 29, 1940 at the now-destroyed Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. Clark didn’t win that night; the only black spot on an otherwise glorious night for the film.

The one [...]

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Gossip Friday: Just like Mickey

By On December 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Gossip

Since Mickey Rooney is TCM’s Star of the Month this month…

From December 1938:

Mickey Rooney’s one proud guy. He’s going around telling everyone that Clark Gable’s bought a car just like his, after a ride with Mickey. It’s true the cars are just alike–a [...]

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Gossip Friday: Crowd around Mickey

By On December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Gossip

From February 1937:

Outside the commissary at MGm we saw Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and about forty other big stars and directors huddled in a group around something, so interested and awed by what they saw that their mouths were practically hanging open down to their knees. After [...]

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