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Snowed in with Clark
Clark Gable never made a Christmas movie. Not even a movie with a legitimate Christmas scene! Surprising but true. So, we’ll have to settle for some shots of Clark in the snow to make things festive around here…
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Carole This and That
Some fun and random Carole things: Carole recommends this products! Carole in some advertising: (Click to enlarge) Carole’s brother Fred suffered some marital woes…among them, his dogs slept in bed with him instead of his wife and referred to his wife as a “second hand car”! I found this particulary interesting because it confirms that Carole indeed had a nephew…a fact that I hadn’t heard confirmed. Newspaper article from 1942: (Click to enlarge) A cute magazine page advertising Carole’s 1941 film “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”: (Click to enlarge) An adorable headshot from her 1941 drama “They Knew What They Wanted”: (Click to enlarge) Gorgeous headshot from a sitting for “Made for…
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Photogenic Clark and Carole
To date, there are nearly 9,500 pictures in the gallery. Of these, the most popular album of the entire gallery is in the “Wives” section. Is it Josephine Dillon at 76 views? No… Is it Sylvia Ashley at 80 views? Nope… Is it Ria Langham at 94 views? Nah… What about Kay Williams at 119 views? Still not… The winner, by a landslide, would be Mrs. Carole Lombard Gable, with 263 views! What is it about these two lovebirds? Maybe the fact that they usually look so happy and carefree and well, in love! I’ve added nine new pictures of Clark and Carole to the gallery today so make sure to log in and…
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The Mayfair Ball
As Clark and Carole fans all know, the 1936 Mayfair Ball was the site of the beginning of their love story. David O.Selznick (producer of Gone with the Wind) was the president of the Mayfair Club at the time and asked Carole to head up the annual ball, as she was known for throwing the best parties in town. Carole decided to make it a white ball, and all ladies were asked to wear white gowns, and the men white ties. White flowers of every variety filled the room. Tickets were $20 apiece, and for that you got dinner (alcohol was extra though, thankyouverymuch), dancing, a show and some pretty fine…
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At Separate Tables…
About a year before Cupid struck, Clark and Carole were having a grand time one night at the Trocadero Club—just at different tables. Carole seemed to only have eyes for her date, screenwriter Robert Riskin (he penned It Happened One Night). Meanwhile Clark and Ria were double-dating with Constance Bennett and her beau, Gilbert Roland. One wonders if they stopped by each other’s tables to say hello! While Clark left Ria very soon after this picture was taken, Connie and Gilbert were married in 1941, after being called out for “acting married while being unmarried” in the infamous article that called out Clark and Carole for the same offense: “Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and…
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Ahoy to the USS Carole Lombard
Two years after the death of his wife, Clark joined Irene Dunne to launch the USS Carole Lombard, in honor of Carole and her dedication to her country. It is noted that the event was the first time in public that Clark visibly showed emotion over Carole. You can see the tears in his eyes, even in these newspaper photos. He had just come home from serving overseas and I am sure as he watched the ship back out of the harbor, it was with a heavy heart. Associated Press account: The mist that reddens a man’s eyes and passes for tears was plainly discernable in the eyes of Captain Clark Gable…
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Gossip Friday: “What’s that you say?” and some Carole pics
From December 1939: If you want to drive Carole Lombard crazy, just pretend to talk merrily while she is under a dryer. She is certain that you are telling a juicy tidbit and that she’s missing out on something. She’ll never believe that you were simply saying that it’s hot for this time of year. ______ Coming up this weekend–rare pics of Clark and Carole in the gallery! Until then, here are some of my personal favorite shots of candid Carole. One of the reasons I adore her so is that her candids actually LOOK candid. She didn’t care if she came across as a total goofball or not. …
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Gossip Friday: Claudette and Bing
Since this week (9/13) is Claudette Colbert’s 107th birthday, here’s some gossip about her from Septmeber 1937: Claudette Colbert was playing some of her favorite Bing Crosby records in her dressing room the other day, when her telephone rang. The star herself answered. An irate voise yelled, “Listen! If you must make all that noise, which disturbs me in my dressing room, for heaven’s sake play something better than those Crosby records. That’s guy’s crooning gives me a pain!” “I don’t know who you are,” cried Claudette angrily, “but you can’t make cracks to me about my friend Bing Crosby and his singing! If you had any musical sense you’d know…
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Clark for Sale
I have just added photos from the catalog of one of Clark’s estate auctions, that took place on December 15,1996 at Christie’s in Hollywood. This particular auction is well-known because despite the Academy’s pleading, Clark’s son put Clark’s only Oscar on the auction block. Steven Spielberg famously purchased it for $607,500 and donated it back to the Academy. Spielberg also purchased Clark’s personal copy of the Gone with the Wind script for $244,500 and kept it. Pictures of both the Oscar and the GWTW script are included as well as items such as Clark’s bathrobe, leather bed, golf clubs, poker chips, books from his library, his and Carole’s monogrammed sherry glasses and…
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Photo Mystery Solved!
As a fan of both Clark and Carole (and classic Hollywood in general), I have always been puzzled by these pictures: They are of a mustache-less Clark conversing with Carole, It Happened One Night director Frank Capra, and his IHON costar, Claudette Colbert. So what’s so peculiar? Well, Claudette is dressed in her IHON costume and since they are with Capra, one would assume that these are on-the-set candids. But a few things have always puzzled me about them: First, Clark was sporting a mustache in IHON and had been for over a year prior. Second, while during the film’s production in 1934 Clark and Carole were not romantically involved…