Gossip
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Gossip Friday: Say What They Will
From April 1936: Say what they will, there appears to be more to the Clark Gable-Carole Lombard romance than they want known. They are together all of the time and it commences to look as though Carole has given up on Robert Riskin, the writer.
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Gossip Friday: Taking a Trip?
From March 1947: Clark Gable is planning to take a three-month flying trip around the world when he finishes his next picture. The actor will start “Angel’s Flight” six weeks after he finishes “The Hucksters,” then he’ll take most of the summer for an air jaunt to distant places. His plan indicates what a lonesome guy Clark has been in recent years since the death of Carole Lombard. ___ Clark never did make a film called “Angel’s Flight”–I have seen that mentioned more than once. Also, he was too traumatized to fly for years after Carole’s death (not including his time in the Army Air Corps). He didn’t take a…
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Gossip Friday: Why Not Paul?
From February 1948, Jimmie Fidler’s column: I can’t help feeling irked when I read that Clark Gable, who will star in the screen version of “Command Decision,” is going to New York to study the stage performance of Paul Kelly. I have no brief against Gable; quite the contrary, I regard him as one of the most capable actors in Hollywood. But why not let Paul Kelly play the role on the screen which he’s created on the stage? Kelly is a Hollywood veteran; a great actor and a swell guy who’s had more buffets from Lady Luck than should fall to the lot of any one man. In “Command…
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Gossip Friday: Not With His Shoes On
From February 1937: Burly Clark Gable can’t make love with his shoes on, it appeared as the pride of Cadiz, Ohio, washed up amatory work in “Parnell” with Myrna Loy. Half-a-dozen times Gable assumed parlor wrestling position No.1 on a brocade sofa and went into his routine. But it was no go, Ken Stahl cutting the take before it got its second wind. The great lover at length kicked off his shiny, patent-leather shoes, and, taking a firm toehold on a bear-skin rug, gave off a perfect scene. Loy, to promote passion, contented herself with shredding a handkerchief and sniffing softly while an off-key phonograph bleated Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.”
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Gossip Friday: Ailing
From February 1948: Clark Gable’s back in town after baking out that ailing leg in Tucson, Ariz. He’s still walking with a limp, and his next film, “Angel’s Flight,” won’t go into production for another two months.
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Gossip Friday: Bereaved and Fishing
From February 6, 1942: Grants River Pas, Ore.–Clark Gable, bereaved film star who wanted to get away from picture people after the sudden death of his wife, blonde Carole Lombard, almost found the canyon of the Illinois river southwest of here a Hollywood meeting place this week. He fished there for steelhead trout Wednesday. The next day, Ginger Rogers and Margaret Sullavan, also vacationing at Ginger’s ranch, tried their luck in the same stream. Gable arrived at his old fishing haunts, We-Ask-U Inn, on Monday, and by local newspaper arrangement his presence was not revealed until he left Friday morning, accompanied by Harry Fleishmann.
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Gossip Friday: Clark with Red?
From February 1948, Sheilah Graham’s column: Clark Gable will do a Bob Hope in Red Skelton’s movie, “The Southern Yankee.” Gable will appear suddenly at the end of the picture and drive off with the heroine, Arlene Dahl! _____ Well that didn’t happen.
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Gossip Friday: Seeking Solace
From January 23, 1942: Clark Gable Plans to Seek Solace in Work Hollywood–Clark Gable, turned from a swashbuckling, carefree prankster into a depressed, grief-stricken recluse by the tragic death of Carole Lombard, will seek solace in work. The fun-loving screen star was so anguished by loss of his beautiful blonde wife that he wanted only to be alone. Shielded by studio executives, Gable has been so alone that friends became alarmed at his depressed brooding. Gable hasn’t yet gone to his Encino ranch where he and Carole lived so fully and joyously. He’s in seclusion at a friend’s home. He has left it only twice since he brought Miss Lombard’s…
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Gossip Friday: Gable Gets Into a Row
From April 1934: Hollywood, Calif.–A fight that might have been one of the best in Hollywood’s history of fame one-rounders was averted when friends separated Clark Gable and Gilbert Roland just when they had reached the coat-jerking stage in a verbal exchange involving Constance Bennett, it was learned today. The three were attending a party at the home of Samuel Goldwyn. Gable was chatting with Miss Bennett and Roland, Miss Bennett’s escort, was seated nearby playing bridge. Friends professed ignorance as to the draft of Gable’s conversation, but he was interrupted by an angry Roland. “You quit picking on her and pick on me,” Roland suddenly challenged. Gable accepted and…
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Gossip Friday: They’ll Be Back
From January 1958: Clark Gable and his Kay left today on a Caribbean cruise, but they’ll be back here for the Academy Awards and the world premiere of “Teacher’s Pet” the last of March.
