Gossip
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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.
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Gossip Friday: Difference of Temperament
From June 1936: The possibility of a divorce between Clark Gable and his estranged wife is reported. He has brought a suit against her, demanding that she abide by a property agreement made when they separated in November. Rhea Gable is Clark Gable’s second wife. They met first in New York when he was a struggling young leading man and she was a widow, Mrs. Langham. Tall, slim and dark, Mrs. Gable is several years older than her husband (now 34) and is known as one of Hollywood’s most gracious hostesses. Their separation has up to now been amicable, with both avoiding publicity. No scandal attaches to the separation. Difference…
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Gossip Friday: A Kiss for Paulette
From August 1949, Louella Parsons’ column: When Paulette Goddard flew to Mexico City last night she was put on the plane by Clark Gable, who took her to dinner and sent her on her way complete with corsage and a farewell kiss. Just before Paulette took the plane she signed papers with her attorney, Gregson Bautzer, which enables him to file suit for divorce in Los Angeles. The amazing point of this whole thing is that Paulette has steadily denied to me and all other reporters that she has had any trouble about a property settlement with Burgess Meredith. I happen to know that Burgess never agreed to any settlement…
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Gossip Friday: Don’t Pat Clark Gable on the Back!
From June 1936: Don’t Pat Clark Gable on the Back–He Hates It! Clark Gavle was named recently as one of the three greatest stars of 1936 throughout the world–yet he remains the same Clark Gable. Now he adds to his laurels, with Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy in Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s “Wife Versus Secretary” opening at the Luverne Theatre June 29th. He wears the same hat size that he wore when he was an unknown extra, but there’s a red feather in it today. He still has a passion for turtleneck sweaters, brilliant neckties and old clothes. His favorite relaxation is fooling the willy trout. He can ride a horse…
