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Gossip Friday: Tuesday night in Hollywood
From February 1937: This is the thing that keeps Hollywood the town of enchanting contradiction and makes it the most unexplainable spot in the world. Take one particular Tuesday evening in Hollywood, for instance. At the Cocoanut Grove: Lights, music, champagne, movie stars, a Joan Bennett surprise party, a director and a blonde actress breaking their hearts for a love they can’t have. On a Laurel Canyon hillside: A barbecue, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Sandra, his wife, hot sizzling steaks, stars overhead, old-time songs, new-time stories and mustard. In the overflow meeting for a religious lecture: Director Frank Capra, Ginger Rogers and her mother, Sid Grauman,…
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Gossip Friday: Ann’s Ideal Man
A short article from June 1940 in which actress Ann Sheridan describes her ideal man: Right here I’d like to mention that I don’t go around describing, unsolicited, my masculine ideal to everyone I meet. What I mean is, I was asked by Movie Mirror to do this…so in describing the sort of man I would choose if I were to marry I’m contriving a sort of composite of several men I know and like and admire… He’d dance like Cesar Romero. The Romero dancing is in a class by itself. He’d have Joel McCrea’s physique–tall, square-shouldered, rangy and not an ounce of spare fat on him! I hate bay windows,…
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Gossip Friday: Clark’s Valentine
From September 1940: Happy-though-married Clark Gable keeps Carole Lombard’s dressing room filled with red roses. And Gene Raymond keeps Jeanette MacDonald well supplied with pink roses, pink being Jeanette’s favorite color. Lots of new stuff this week: New rare pictures in the gallery–hundreds added! A new article in the Article Archive by Norma Shearer describing her favorite male costars A new radio show in the Multimedia section–The Buccaneer from 1938
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Gossip Friday: Clark loses his poise
From September 1940, an article entitled “Would You Have Lost Your Poise, Too?” ...Clark Gable has done some nature facing, too, and has had a lot of years of trooping. But nothing had prepared him for the situation which arose when a piece of scenery fell on him and he heard that awful ripping sound and found himself without his trousers in front of five hundred delighted extras. To say nothing of a raucous cast and crew. Not only that. Unsympathetic blokes began cracking wise at once about the Gable knees. What does a seasoned trooper do under these circumstances? Smile? Toss it off with an airy gesture? Not this…
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Gable
Today is Clark’s 109th birthday! To celebrate, this month will be chock full of new stuff–pictures, radio shows, video clips, articles and sections. To begin with, there are a lot of new pictures in the gallery. The film pages have been given a facelift, featuring new pictures and many now have clips and trailers. Film pages have been added for Laughing Sinners, Hell Divers, Chained, Cain and Mabel and Comrade X. I’m also adding my own review of each picture. I’d like to add reviews from Gable fans as well. If you would like to submit a review for a Gable film (brief, and also rate it 1 to 5 stars), email it to me…