Gossip
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Gossip Friday: Clark in Calgary
From July 1933: Girls! Girls! Clark Gable may come to Calgary to attend the stampede–but he will accompanied by his wife. Interviewed at the Vancouver hotel last week, Mr. Gable refused to commit himself, but said that there was a possibility of his coming to Calgary. He left the hotel Saturday for an unannounced destination, hinting that it might be Banff and it might be Prince Rupert. Accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. F.N Selman, the party has been travelling by car up the Pacific coast, stopping as long as they wanted in a city and then starting for some other place. At no point would they tell reporters where they…
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Gossip Friday: Everything but Cook
From January 1937: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard visited a phonograph shop not long back, and bought one of those newfangled machines that combine radio, home-recording, loud speaker, and play twenty-four records at a time. Gable watched its performance, then said to the salesman, “That darn thing does everything but cook.” At which Miss Lombard snickered, “You might say the same of me.”
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Gossip Friday: Don’t Try Too Hard
From December 1934: If you would be successful, don’t woo success too hard. This is the only moral Clark Gable has gained from his astonishing career. “Success–this kind of success-was the last thing in my mind,” the star explained frankly. “I liked acting and wanted to make a living at it, but I never once believed I would accomplish more than that.” Gable made these remarks on the set of “Forsaking All Others,” the new all-star picture in which he shares honors with Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery. The picture, which opens Sunday at the Strand Theatre, was directed by W.S. Van Dyke. “Few professional actors look forward to any…
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Gossip Friday: His Own Critic
From July 1936: The big show at a Hollywood boulevard movie house the other evening was for that group of people who sat behind Clark Gable and Carole Lombard at a showing of “San Francisco.” But Gable’s conversation about the picture he’s in didn’t go unnoticed. He’d make a good movie critic.
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Gossip Friday: Sound Your Siren
From January 1940: The boys play too rough on Clark Gable’s sets, Carole Lombard discovered. She visited her husband on the sound stage where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Strange Cargo” was in production, in time to see Gable watching with great amusement while Lou Smith, his stand-in, and Stanley Campbell, his make-up man, reenacted the fight that is staged by Gable and Albert Dekker for the film. Neither of the combatants saw Miss Lombard until Smith suddenly ducked and Campbell landed a haymaker on Miss Lombard’s cheek. The two retired in great confusion and amid profound apologies, while Gable grinningly warned his wife that “next time you step into this gymnasium, you better…
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Gossip Friday: Earn Respect
From May 1954: “I saw Clark Gable the other night in New York. Now there’ a really great guy. They don’t call him “The King” for nothing. I used to hang around the caddy shack at the club when I was a kid hoping for a chance to pack his bag. Sometimes I got it. If I didn’t, I followed him around. He was always swell to me, always my idol. Still is. So when I saw him in Twenty-One I went right up. He’d been in Europe for a long time but I might have seen him yesterday. He said some pretty nice things about me, said he was…
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Gossip Friday: Meet Sonny
From November 1941: Those baby rumors swarming around Clark Gable and Carole Lombard finally paid off–in a way. Carole just bought a colt which she presented to Clark and named Sonny.
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Gossip Friday: Besieged
From September 1941: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard Besieged by Film Fans Here Actor-Couple Signs 150 Autographs Before Hiding in Hotel; On Way to Hunt in Canada Albuquerque, New Mexico–Two old hunting pals spent a few hours in Albuquerque Monday, after their eastbound plane was grounded by bad weather–and Alvarado Hotel employees were almost swamped by a rush of autograph seekers. The reasons: one of the hunters is Clark Gable, motion picture star, who was accompanied by his wife, Carole Lombard of the screen. Gable’s hunting pal is H.H. Fleishman, of MGM Studios, who also was accompanied by his wife. The party was on its way by air to Manitoba, Canada,…
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Gossip Friday: Strange Quartet
From November 1938: A strangely assorted quartet that meets once or twice a week in the valley for rounds of bridge or badminton is composed of Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Mr. and Mrs. Andy Devine. The Devines have many other intimates, but Gable and Lombard keep much to themselves. When they do step out socially, it is invariably over to Andy’s ranch.
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Gossip Friday: Regular Patrons
From March 1937: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are regular patrons [of the drive-in theater] and, to avoid possibility of detection and annoyance, the two sometimes come in the battered old Ford which Carole gave Clark a year ago.
