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Gossip Friday: He’s Had Lots of Practice
From August 1956: Sight of the week: Clark Gable carrying wife Kay up the forty steps to Sam Goldwyn’s studio projection room, to show her the rough cut of his “King and Four Queens.” Clark had lots of practice carrying the fair sex–to wit–Vivien Leigh up the grand staircase in “Gone with the Wind.”
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Gossip Friday: Part of His Duties
From May 1957: Clark Gable’s wife, Kay, who seldom visits the studio, dropped onto the “Teacher’s Pet” set to watch Clark and Doris Day emote. “They’ll do a love scene next,” she was told. “That’s part of Clark’s duties,” she laughed.
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Gossip Friday: Follow That Car
From September 1950: In the year since [Rosemary Clooney] was just a singer with Tony Pastor’s band she had reached celebrity status, but is still celebrity-shy, when she meets the big ones. Leaving the broadcasting studio one day, she saw Clark Gable getting into a taxi; jumping into another cab, she cried, “Follow that car!” and pursued Gable’s cab for seven blocks, gazing at the back of his head!
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{New Article} The Great Gable Part 2
Here is part 2 of The New York Daily News’ “Great Gable” series. A rather disjointed piece, swinging from Clark’s recent marriage to Kay Williams, his reputation as aloof and lonely, and the failure of his post-war films to catch on with audiences. Paradoxically, Gable, while fundamentally a lone wolf, is a friendly man, with a lively interest in others. During all the years he was King of MGM, the legend of Clark Gable’s inaccessibility grew to the point where he became widely regarded as a male Garbo. Affably aloof was the way reporters most often described him. And when one gained a rare interview with the celebrated star, it…
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{New Article} The Great Gable Part 1
This is part one of a series of articles that were written for the New York Daily News. Apparently Clark Gable gave them a few quotes, they interviewed some of his friends, were all ready to go to print and then came the surprising news that Clark had eloped with Kay Williams the day before. So they had to squeeze that into the articles as well. It is hard to find anybody who doesn’t like Gable—even among his ex-wives and girlfriends, practically a small army in themselves. Even Lady Sylvia Ashley, Wife No. 4 whom Gable eventually locked out of his California ranch, has admitted, grudgingly, that Gable is quite…
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Gossip Friday: Four Million and One
From September 1954: Four million of Holland’s 10 million inhabitants ride bicycles. Clark Gable recently made it four million and one. Long known as a motorcycle fan, Gable keeps half a dozen of the speed machines at his Encino ranch. When he traveled to Holland with Lana Turner and Victor Mature, for the filming of the new drama, “Betrayed,” he had a special bicycle designed for him by a Dutch manufacturer. Between scenes of “Betrayed,” Dutch citizens became used to seeing the star motor-bike on the paths along the canals in his “Gable special.” “Betrayed,” co-starring Lana Turner and Victor Mature, will open Thursday at Loew’s State. In the film,…
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Gossip Friday: What to Do About the Doves
From December 1958: What will the Democrats do about the doves? This question threatens to make a long winter long for California sportsmen and conservationists as they await the start of the Democrat-controlled state legislature in January. The cause of their concern: A pending bill which would spare doves from hunters and place them on the list of protected songbirds in California…. An avid sportsman, film star Clark Gable fired off a firm letter aiming to pump the bill full of buckshot. Gable said he would “like to go on record as definitely opposing this or any other bill which would prohibit dove shooting in California.”
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Gossip Friday: Early Out
From February 1936: One of the nicest parties of the year was given by Pansy and Nicholas Schenck at Joseph Schenck’s palatial home; many of the guests came on from the Lewis Milestone cocktail party which was a gay and happy affair; after a week of unprecedented gaiety you might think the Schenck party would suffer, but with a good orchestra, grand food and conversation, most of the guests stayed on and on. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable left early because they are working and had to be on the set early; Louis B. Mayer did some fancy dancing with Hope Lighton; Marion Davies stunning in black; Mrs. Jack Warner…
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Gossip Friday: With Garlic, No Less
From August 1937: When Carole Lombard and Clark Gable dine out they go for porterhouse steaks with garlic.
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Gossip Friday: Too Tame
From August 1937: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable seem to have run out of practical jokes to play on one another. They became very circumspect and sent Louis B. Mayer a huge birthday cake with “Happy Birthday” spelled across the top in gardenias and green leaves, but they admit this didn’t run true to form and was unworthy of them. “Too tame,” remarked Carole to one of her friends.
