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Gossip Friday: Goodbye, Old Oak
From October 1939: Ever since Clark Gable and Carole Lombard have moved to their Encino homestead, they have been petting along their pride and joy, a 200-year-old oak three. The tree was continually being propped, its crevices filled with cement, and otherwise coaxed along, but the recent spell of wind and rain has written the final chapter for the ancient beauty. It was blown down and will now be sawed up for the winter fireplace.
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Gossip Friday: A New Cadillac
From October 1938: Clark Gable gave Carole Lombard a new Cadillac for her birthday. Who wouldn’t be a blonde? Carole gave Clark a pink ballet dress with C.G. in tinseled letters a foot long on front of it, ballet slippers, 11-D, and sent them to the set of “Idiot’s Delight.” shows what she thinks of him as a dancer.
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Gossip Friday: Unnoticed
From October 1936: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard got right up to the theater unnoticed at the “Romeo and Juliet” premiere. They came in the tricked-up flivver she gave him last St. Valentine’s Day.
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Gossip Friday: Made For Each Other
From September 1938: Clark Gable accompanied Carole Lombard to her first day’s shooting on “Made for Each Other,” and then had to watch her make love to Jimmy Stewart.
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Gossip Friday: The Madam
From August 1936: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, playing the night spots together, are having a picnic of fun. Of late Clark has called Carole “The Madam.” Dining out, he insists on saying “Will the madam have this?” or “Where would the madam like to go?” A Trocadero waiter stared strangely at Miss Lombard after such an address from Gable the other evening. After he had taken their order and departed, Carole murmured, “Perhaps you had better not call me ‘The Madam’ in front of strangers!”
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Gossip Friday: Up Next?
From September 1948: Clark Gable is never happy making love stories, so he should be pleased that his next comes up a he-man opus, Across the Wide Missouri. The story is by Bernard De Voto, Pulitizer Prise winning historiical novelist, and Talbot Jennings is already at work on the script. Right now Clark is in Oregon roughing it on his Rogue River farm. ____ Interesting that this was printed in 1948, as Clark didn’t make Across the Wide Missouri until 1951.
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Gossip Friday: Gable the Gourmet
From August 1950: When the gourmets of Hollywood go out to entertain with food, and want to do it properly and impressively, they leave the menu to Chef Robert Kreis. In the private dining room of one of the Brown Derbies, where Chef Robert is the head kitchen man, a visiting millionaire is entertaining for 20. There will be a bar, “naturally,” and the same menu Chef Robert ran up for Clark Gable’s party last week. The appetizers will consist of some very appetizing stuff: Alaskan Crab, smoked oysters, pate de foie gras, caviar and cherry tomatoes, stuffed with ground anchovies. Gable and many others and the unnamed millionaire have…
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Gossip Friday: Found His Voice
From March 1947: Clark Gable is out of bed and back with “The Hucksters.” I asked Clark how he cured his cold. Said he, “I got to thinking of a love scene with Ava Gardner coming up and found my voice again.”
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Gossip Friday: Fellow Daredevil
From August 1950 (London, Ohio): Clark Gable, star of the MGM picture “To Please a Lady,” gives Joie Chitwood a wish of good luck just before Chitwood takes off on one of his daring stunts in the thrill show he now heads. This scene was made at a recent performance in California in which Mr. Gable was one of the spectators. The Chitwood show plays a very important part in Mr. Gable’s new movie built around the career of a combination race driver and stunt man very much like Joie’s own life as a daredevil. The World Champion Chitwood Daredevils will present their show at the Madison County Fair the…
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Gossip Friday: Scared Stiff
From July 1937: According to an Irishwoman who is kept busy doing elderly women parts in Hollywood, the preview of “Parnell” nearly gave her a stroke. There are films in which she admires Myrna Loy and films done by Clark Gable that fill her with enthusiasm, but, oh, “Uncrowned King” of the latter and the Kitty O’Shea of the former! “Sure, ye were wise, ye never even attempted it!” said the Lord Mayor of Dublin when Herbert Beerbohm Tree asked for his opinion on his Irish brogue in, I think, “The Illustrious O’Hagan.” Mr. Gable tried to be Irish when he began the film, which he need not have been,…
