Gossip
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Gossip Friday: He Knows They’re Big
From December 1950: It happened to Clark Gable. A news gal, interviewing him, unwittingly mentioned all the gags about his ears, and then she crimsoned over her faux paus. “I don’t mind the kidding about my ears,” Gable reassured her. “I know they’re big.” “They only seem big, Mr. Gable,” was her tactful reply, “because your head isn’t.”
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Gossip Friday: The Waiting Game
From November 1938: Technicalities legal procedure, it appeared today, may prevent Hollywood from hearing Carole Lombard and Clark Gable say “I do” until some time in 1940. The actor’s $286,000 property settlement with his second wife, Maria Langham Gable, has been mutually approved but requires a court’s okay before Mrs. Gable can file suit for divorce. Gable said his wife, from whom he has been separated for three years, would seek a divorce as soon as a ruling is obtained on the legality of the settlement. He did not say he intends to marry the effervescent Lombard, but his friends declared they are sure he will as soon as he…
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Gossip Friday: A Country Style Recipe
From November 1939: Country style recipes rule on the Carole Lombard-Clark Gable ranch. A favorite old-timer is fried apples, quartered, cooked on brown sugar, flavored with a hint of orange or lemon juice. Delicious with country sausage.
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Gossip Friday: Plenty of Nails
From November 1941: Carole Lombard knows that Clark Gable is always building something on their valley ranch so about a month ago she said to Clark: “You better buy plenty of nails because they’re going to be difficult to get after a while.” Gable laughed, but Carole went out and bought 2,000 pounds of nails at 7 cents a pound. Lombard was right. There is now a shortage of nails, and practically every hardware store in town is phoning Clark Gable wanting to buy nails from him at 17 cents a pound.
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Gossip Friday: A Strange Quartet
From November 1938: Carole Lombard-William Powell-Clark Gable-Rhea Gable–how do the members of this quartet regard and treat each other in the narrow confines of Hollywood? Lombard and Powell are perhaps greater friends now than when they were husband and wife. When they first started making “My Man Godfrey,” their dressing rooms were at opposite sides of the set. Halfway through the picture they were halfway nearer each other. By the time “My Man Godfrey” was in a “canned” condition, their two rooms were side by side! And the ex-Mr. and Mrs. dined together at least five times a week, and it looked as though Bill had nosed out Mr. Gable…
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Gossip Friday: Rhett Sketches
From November 1938: George Cukor visited Clark Gable on the set of “Idiot’s Delight” today with the first Rhett Butler costume sketches tucked under his arm. And if you think this picture isn’t heading into the home-stretch at last–William Cameron Menzies will have the exteriors of “Tara,” Scarlett’s home, ready to shoot within two weeks.
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Gossip Friday: Everybody Relax
From October 1938: Everybody can relax a little, in case they’re still worrying about it after all this time. Clark Gable is definitely set for the role of Rhett Butler. He cut his Canadian vacation short in order to be back to celebrate Carole Lombard’s birthday.
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Gossip Friday: Only One Star
From April 1939: “There is only one star in the family,” says Carole Lombard in answer to the question. “How can two stars make a success of marriage?” “And that’s Clark,” concludes Carole.
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Gossip Friday: Off to New York
From October 1939: After all the talk of Europe, South America, Honolulu, etc., Carole Lombard and Clark Gable will settle on a trip to New York. They’ll probably get away as soon as Carole finishes “Vigil in the Night” at RKO.
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Gossip Friday: Carole Says Pay Up!
From November 1938: Ever since that ancient Christmas day when Lew Cody tied a holly and red ribbon bedecked cow to Mabel Normand’s front porch, the film colony has had its ribbers and jokers. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, of course, are its ace gagsters. Carole’s latest contribution to humorous Hollywoodiana was made when she had the renewal of her contract with Artist Manager Myron Selznick so adroitly reworded that instead of having to pay him 10 percent of her salary, he was to pay her the same percentage of his daily business. Having signed and filed it, you can imagine the consternation of the astute Selznick when Carole’s attorney…
