Gossip
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Gossip Friday: With Garlic, No Less
From August 1937: When Carole Lombard and Clark Gable dine out they go for porterhouse steaks with garlic.
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Gossip Friday: Too Tame
From August 1937: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable seem to have run out of practical jokes to play on one another. They became very circumspect and sent Louis B. Mayer a huge birthday cake with “Happy Birthday” spelled across the top in gardenias and green leaves, but they admit this didn’t run true to form and was unworthy of them. “Too tame,” remarked Carole to one of her friends.
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Gossip Friday: Out of Office
From June 1936: Clark Gable of the films is on his vacation, but where no one seems to know. He told his studio last week he might go to Utah to hunt but didn’t specify what portion of the state. He is not expected to have another film assignment for about a month.
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Gossip Friday: Ailing Carole
From July 1939: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable really must have found the privacy they wanted on the ranch. She’s been ill for a week with an appendix attack and Hollywood did not find it out until the other day. There’ll be no operation for the present, Carole says, but the doctor will have to okay any vacation plans. Carole finished “Memory of Love” two weeks ago at RKO. Clark winds up in “GWTW” any minute. ___ “Memory of Love” was re-titled as “In Name Only” and co-starred Cary Grant. It is widely speculated that Carole in fact had suffered a miscarriage at this time, not appendicitis.
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Gossip Friday: Striking
Of the many beauties in Hollywood there are few who excel Clark Gable’s wife Kay. Gable and the beautiful Kay attended the premiere of “Giant” and she, dressed all in white and wearing emeralds, was one of the most striking women there.
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Gossip Friday: Clark Gable Takes a Bride
Seventy years ago today, on July 11,1955, Clark Gable married Kay Williams Spreckels in Minden, Nevada. July 12, 1955: Clark Gable, 54-year-old screen veteran, and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, actress and former wife of California sugar heir Adolph Spreckels II, were married Monday in a surprise double-ring ceremony. It was Gable’s fifth marriage, Miss Williams’ third. The ceremony in the home of Justice of the Peace G. Walter Fisher claimed an on-again, off-again romance that has linked their names in gossip columns for about 10 years. Gable, appearing very formal in a dark blue suit, and his bride, wearing a chic tan suit, were uncommunicative before and after the ceremony.…
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Gossip Friday: What Can We Do for Laughs?
From March 1936: Carole Lombard, George Cukor, Clark Gable, William Powell, Jean Harlow and several other stars who are paid to amuse you, were gathered about a table recently and it was Lombard who asked: “What can we do for laughs?”
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Gossip Friday: Paying His Respects
From October 1954: Sentiment found its way into the gaiety and confusion of the premiere of Judy Garland’s long-awaited “A Star is Born” in Hollywood recently with 20,000 fans lining the streets outside the theater. Clark Gable is pictured here as he leaned over Judy’s chair to pay his respects to her. There were big tears in her eyes as she turned away.
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Gossip Friday: New Difficulties
From June 1936: While rumors persisted that “everything was set but the date” regarding the current romance of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, the screen hero found himself involved in new difficulties with his estranged third wife. His latest marital mix-up came to light when Gable filed suit for recognition of property settlement made with Mrs. Rhea Langham Gable when they separated last fall shortly after the actor returned from a South American vacation.
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Gossip Friday: Not a Knockout
From June 1936: The famous knockout blow that Clark Gable delivered to his skilled opponent in the prizefight scene for “Cain and Mabel” will be retained in the picture, but will not appear as a knockout. Warners wanted to use it as the end of the 15-round bout in the story, in which Clark co-stars with Marion Davies, but the camera caught the “Round 1” marker above the ring, and there is no way to keep this from showing. As a result, the scenes will appear as a knockdown, and another way will be figured for Gable to score a kayo at the finish of the fight.
