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It’s Carole Lombard Month!
It’s that time of year again…Carole Lombard Month here on DearMrGable.com! Every October (well, last year it was September because of my trip to Hollywood), we highlight the love of Clark’s life, his third wife, Carole Lombard. Naturally, doing all the research on Clark Gable that I do, I come across a great deal of Carole Lombard stuff. But I don’t try to integrate too much of her film career and her pre-Clark years into the site, because if I started to do that, pretty soon this would be a Clark and Carole site rather than a Clark one! And besides, Carole Lombard is very expertly covered by Vincent at…
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Judy Lewis, 1935-2011
Judy Lewis, the daughter of Clark Gable, and Loretta Young, died Friday, November 25, of cancer in Pennslyvania. Read the New York Times article on her death here. Judy was concieved during the freezing Washington location shoot for Call of the Wild. Loretta maintained that there had not been a big love affair between her and Clark, just that they were mutually attracted to each other and one night her “iron will slipped.” Loretta realized she was pregnant during the filming of her next picture, The Crusades, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. This was crushing news. Not only did she feel ashamed by her actions, she had violated the morals…
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New Content Galore and I’m Going Hollywood!
October is here and for me that means that I am heading off to Hollywoodland! I’ve planned this trip for a long time and I am very excited about all it will bring to the site. I will be tracing Clark’s footsteps all over Los Angeles and will be back bursting with new information, pictures and more, I hope! You can follow my travels beginning October 5 on the site Facebook page. In preparing for the trip, I wanted to clean off my desk so for the past month I have uploaded over 150 pictures in the gallery (log in and check out “Last Uploads”) and just today I have added…
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Until Next Year, Carole…
As Carole Lombard month comes to a close, I’d like to thank everyone for the nice emails I have received about the content this month. Carole is one of the only golden age stars that I don’t think I have ever heard anyone say they didn’t like. It seems she was that way in person too; I don’t recall anyone having anything nasty to say about her. Carole was an important piece of Clark’s life for sure and her death singlehandedly shaped the rest of his life. I’m not so sure he would have joined the Army if not for her death, although Carole might have eventually talked him…
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September is Carole Lombard Month!
It’s Carole Lombard month on DearMrGable.com! In past years, Carole Lombard month has been in October, to commemerate Carole’s birthday October 6. But something very special will be happening for the site in October (more on that soon!) so I am moving Carole up a month–I didn’t think she’d mind! Stay tuned to the blog this month for rare Carole pictures, Carole gossip items, Clark and Carole articles and much more on one of Hollywood’s favorite couples!
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New DVD Releases
Gable fans rejoice! Six rare titles are now available on DVD through The Warner Brothers Archive Collection: Sporting Blood, Adventure, The Hucksters, Any Number Can Play, Across the Wide Missouri and Lone Star. All are remastered except for Across the Wide Missouri and Sporting Blood. They are $19.95 apiece or you can get all six for $80. This is great news; so many Gable films are now available on DVD! Now they just need to catch up on Carole Lombard films too…
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{Reference} Gable Films on DVD
I should do more posts about recent Gable DVD releases. Here’s my way of making up for it–a complete list of what Gable films are available on DVD. Thanks to the Warner Brothers Archive Collection, many of his films have been made available the past few years. There are still a few that I can’t believe aren’t available, such as Red Dust, Hold Your Man and Saratoga. I have often thought perhaps WB was holding on to those to release a big grand Jean Harlow centennial boxed set, but her 100th birthday has come and gone and there is no such set. Grumble, grumble. Well, us Gable fans don’t have much to grumble…
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In Memory of Jane Russell
We’ve lost another Gable leading lady, as Jane Russell, his costar in The Tall Men (1955), has died at age 89. From the AP: Jane Russell, the full-figured beauty who was one of Hollywood’s leading sex symbols of the 1940s and ’50s, died Monday at her home in Santa Maria, Calif. The Minnesota-born icon, 89, died of a respiratory-related illness, according to reports. Discovered by Howard Hughes in 1941, Russell shot to fame in the controversial Western The Outlaw. The publicity stills were as scandalous as the film, with Russell sprawled in the hay wearing a tight, low-cut dress. Russell also hit movie gold in 1953, when she starred opposite…
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The Scoop on “Gable:The Ties that Bind”
As previously mentioned on this blog, Michelle Morgan, the author of the book Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed , is heading up a new Gable documentary, “Gable: The Ties that Bind”, that features FIVE HOURS of previously unreleased footage! There will also be a companion book penned by Michelle herself. I asked Michelle the questions everybody wants to know: How did you get involved with the project? At the end of summer 2010 I was hanging out my washing one afternoon when an email came through from Tegan Summer, to say that he had acquired some personal home movie footage of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable. I was absolutely intrigued and suggested…
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Remembering Bonnie Blue
On Sunday, I attended the memorial service for Cammie King Conlon, or as we all know her, Bonnie Blue Butler, in Marietta, Georgia. Filled with both tears and laughter, it was a touching tribute to a woman who always claimed she “peaked at age five”. It began with a video tribute, including all of her scenes from GWTW and also a scene from Bambi (she was the voice of young Faline). Speakers included Cammie’s son Matt Conlon, Chris Sullivan, a long time Gone with the Wind enthusiast and collector (whose collection is housed at the GWTW Museum in Marietta), and Mickey Kuhn, who portrayed Beau as a child in GWTW.…