Updates
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2011 in Review
Well, another year is coming to an end and a new one is beginning. Hard to believe in 2012 will be this website will be three years old! 2011 was an exciting year for DearMrGable.com: Over forty new articles added to the Article Archive Thousands of pictures added to the gallery–it now holds over 10,000 pictures! The one year anniversary of this site’s Facebook page–I cherish all the Gable fans I have met through Facebook! The following films were featured as Movie of the Month in 2011: January: Hold Your Man (1933) February: China Seas (1935) March: Saratoga (1937) April: Band of Angels (1957) May: Idiot’s Delight (1939) June: But Not…
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New Content Galore and I’m Going Hollywood!
October is here and for me that means that I am heading off to Hollywoodland! I’ve planned this trip for a long time and I am very excited about all it will bring to the site. I will be tracing Clark’s footsteps all over Los Angeles and will be back bursting with new information, pictures and more, I hope! You can follow my travels beginning October 5 on the site Facebook page. In preparing for the trip, I wanted to clean off my desk so for the past month I have uploaded over 150 pictures in the gallery (log in and check out “Last Uploads”) and just today I have added…
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Clark Croonin’ with Bing
Clark singing with Bing Crosby. That is one of those things that seems unlikely to have ever happened. And I wouldn’t believe it either, if I hadn’t heard it with my own ears! And “Ragtime Cowboy Joe”, of all things! We have a new clip that is from a private recording, circa 1938. A special thank you to Kurt for the clip and to David of The Bing Crosby Media Archive for determining where it came from! If you are a Bing Crosby fan, you should definitely follow his blog. You can hear it on the Audio page. Clark doesn’t exactly keep up with Bing tone-wise, but at least he’s…
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Listen up! More New Audio
I’m very excited to be adding quite a few new radio shows over the next few weeks. New today are: Clips from “The Chase and Sanborn Hour”: Listen to Clark and Edgar Bergen with dummy Charlie McCarthy compare hunting stories and compete for a date with Dorothy Lamour. A short clip from December 10, 1939 in which Clark discusses attending the Gone with the Wind premiere at the end of the week in Atlanta. Happy listening!
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Clark and Carole On the Air!
An unfortunate thing about Carole dying so young is that she was gone before mainstream television. So we have minimal candid video of her; she never got to laugh it up with Johnny Carson or Dick Cavett like many classic stars did. And although he lived well into the “golden age” of television, Clark, unfortunately, refused all television appearances. So, radio shows are about all we have to go on as far as live candid moments. Of course, the word “candid” is taken with a grain of salt, as these appearances were always scripted, but it is still great to find these little audio gems. New on the site are: New couple…
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The Scoop on “Gable:The Ties that Bind”
As previously mentioned on this blog, Michelle Morgan, the author of the book Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed , is heading up a new Gable documentary, “Gable: The Ties that Bind”, that features FIVE HOURS of previously unreleased footage! There will also be a companion book penned by Michelle herself. I asked Michelle the questions everybody wants to know: How did you get involved with the project? At the end of summer 2010 I was hanging out my washing one afternoon when an email came through from Tegan Summer, to say that he had acquired some personal home movie footage of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable. I was absolutely intrigued and suggested…
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Property of Carole Lombard
At her untimely death at age 33, Carole left behind quite an impressive estate. Unfortunately, it has been said that her most valuable furs, clothes and jewels perished with her in the plane crash. Still, there were treasures left behind. I have the listing of Carole’s personal property that was appraised at her death; it is quite long and full of much legal mumbo jumbo. The settling of her estate lists it all more concisely and together, but I found the appraiser’s notes on how much everything was worth rather intriguing. So here are the highlights, from the appraiser’s report. Bank accounts: Jewelry and furs: Yowza. Carole definitely had…
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Updates
2011 will be a great year–in less than a month is the 110th birthday of Mr. Gable! Also in March is the 100th birthday of one of Clark’s favorite leading ladies and close friends, Jean Harlow (pictured above). New and notable for the new year: Get the dish on two of Clark’s romances –with Hollywood legend Joan Crawford and fashion model Anita Colby Two new articles: one from 1942 “What the Loss of Carole Lombard Means to Clark Gable”, which, I must warn you will put a damper on your day as it is rather depressing… And “The Girl in Clark Gable’s Life” from 1944, about Clark’s early courtship with Kay. An…
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Memorial Day
Happy Memorial Day to all… There is a new article about Judy Lewis in the Article Archive and several new pictures in the gallery that are very rare.
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No Guy Like Gable
New article in The Article Archive from 1951 called “No Guy Like Gable”. Also there are new pictures in the gallery.