Articles
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{New Article} Gable the He-Man Talks!
Here’s a brief article from London’s Daily Mirror in 1936, while Clark Gable was filming San Francisco. Nothing earth shattering here. A man with a very dirty face. A man in a grimy, tattered suit. A queer-looking cove with blood-stains all over him, sitting patiently on a rickety old camp-stool. Don’t look round now, but it’s your old friend, Clark Gable. Want to know what he’s really like? If he’s really and truly the Tall-Dark-and-Handsome he looks on the screen? If he’s really so tough as the pictures make him out to be? I’ll tell you now. Better still, Clark Gable will tell you himself. He said this: “I’ve had…
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{New Article} Hollywood’s Happiest Woman
Below is one of Carole Lombard’s final interviews, printed by the Associated Press in the days following her January 16, 1942 death. Hollywood’s Happiest Woman by Mayme Ober Peak Hollywood-Jan. 17–Sitting in her portable dressing room on the set of “To Be or Not To Be,” only seven weeks ago, Carole Lombard told me she was the happiest woman in Hollywood. I remarked that she was making her first picture in more than a year. She nodded, looked at me a little quizzically, and then said, almost sharply, “I don’t care if I never make another picture.” “No matter what career women tell you,” she said, “you cannot find happiness…
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{New Article} 1940: Gable vs. Crawford
This is a new short little article gossiping that Clark Gable and Joan Crawford were not getting along on the set of Strange Cargo. This was actually mentioned in a few Gable biographies. Clark did not want to be in the film as he did not like the script (I can’t say I blame him). Joan’s career was on a downturn and she needed a hit so she was paired with Clark, who was just coming off Gone with the Wind success. Joan was a bit miffed at this, since just nine years earlier, she was the big star and Clark was getting his feet wet playing her love interests…
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{New Article} 1950: Clark and Sylvia
New to the website is a series of syndicated newspaper articles written 74 years ago this week. The media was in a frenzy because, out of the clear blue, Clark Gable had hurriedly gotten married just before Christmas 1949 and hightailed it to Hawaii. The game of “who would be the next Mrs. Gable” had been played practically since Carole Lombard’s funeral eight years prior. Any woman Clark was pictured out with was declared to be the one. The British, thrice-married widow of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was a shock then and it’s still a shock now. 74 years later, it still isn’t clear what on earth Clark was thinking. There…
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New Articles!
You’d think considering that Clark Gable has been dead for nearly 62 years that I would run out of material; that one day there would just be no articles left. That day is nowhere in the near future! There are five new articles in the Article Archive today, and I must admit that none of them are especially remarkable. So instead of devoting a post to each, here they are and they are quite diverse and span thirty years! 1933: Is the Future Threatening Gable? This article speculates whether Clark Gable’s fast ascension into super stardom will cause him to flicker out quickly. (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t). Leslie Howard, himself,…
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{New Article} 1948: The Gable Women
This 1948 article is one in a long list of ones from this time period after the War, after Carole, but before Sylvia, where the press was trying to guess who the next Mrs. Gable would be. This game would restart after Sylvia left the picture. At this point, in late 1948, the list of probable Mrs. Gables was narrowed down to Dolly O’Brien, Slim Hawks, Iris Bynum, Anita Colby and Virginia Grey. what of Anita Colby, Hollywood’s most glamourous executive? The fans were asking that one, because of all the Gable dates, she has received the most publicity. Anita is one of those girls everybody likes. It seems inconceivable…
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{New Article} 1940: Joe Lucky
This 1940 article was in The Saturday Evening Post, whom I’m guessing paid their journalists per word because all their articles are so very bloated. This one is 5,838 words, but who’s counting. Me, the one who typed it, I am the one counting. Anyway. This article is supposed to be about how lucky Clark is and that’s why he is a success. But yet it goes into a rather pointless meandering tale of Clark’s early years working in the oil fields, the lumber camps, as a small time theatre actor–a lot of hard, broke times that eventually led to success. At least the author did indeed interview Clark, so…
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{New Article} 1934: What’s Happened, Gable?
The latest article in the Article Archive is a typical one for the period. The MGM publicity machine was very keen on painting Clark Gable as this rebellious rogue who scoffed at fame and stardom and wanted nothing more than to walk away from it all. “The fault lies purely with myself,” [Clark] said. “I thought I wanted something, something I find I don’t want at all. I was not meant to be a motion picture actor—or any actor. But in the beginning I didn’t realize that I thought I wanted acting fame more than anything in the world. How, then, can Hollywood be blamed for giving me what I…
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Clark Gable in Tampa Part 5: Mrs. Gable is Nice
For the last segment of our series of interviews Clark Gable gave at the Tampa International Airport in February 1958, it appears that as the female reporters were hounding Clark asking him mundane questions, a male reporter managed to talk to Kay Gable. Mrs. Gable is Nice, Male Reporter Says by Leland Hawes, Tribune Staff Writer I had Mrs. Gable all to myself–for 10 nice minutes while her crinkle-browed husband was nearly “skwushed” by a squad of inquiring reporters, female variety. A cool, cool blonde with blue, blue eyes, Kay Gable didn’t twitter an eyelash at the spectacle of her chunk-of-man surrounded by palpitating pulchritude. “It’s really rather refreshing to…
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Clark Gable in Tampa Part 4: His Ears Aren’t So Big After All
Continuing in our series of Clark Gable being interviewed at the Tampa International Airport in February 1958, here’s Part 4, in which you find out he loves huckleberries, if he still loves acting, and if he’d consider going to the moon: His Ears Aren’t So Big After All by Ramona Demery, Tribune Staff Writer I’m rather new at this thing, I guess you call it a cub reporter. Well, not even that, for my job is to keep the floor clean, file weddings and write garden club notices. Then along came a chance to interview Clark Gable. What a madhouse: four women firing questions at once. This one just gave…
