Gossip Friday: Sylvia and Louella Go Visiting

From August 1950, Louella Parsons:

I went with Sylvia Gable to the MGM lot the very first time she lunched with Clark at the studio–and I’ve never enjoyed a round of the sets more.

Sylvia picked me up at my house and was all a-flutter and afraid we would be late.

“I’ve been to the studio only once, at night,” she told me, “but I’ve never had lunch with Clark when he is making a picture. I don’t want to be the kind of wife who hangs around when her husband is working.”

Clark was waiting for us in the commissary and every eye in the place was on those happy newlyweds. Sylvia looked like a fashion plate in her tailored suit and you could just see how proud Clark is of her. 

She constantly amuses him. He laughs affectionately at her British accent and mimics her, but he kept whispering to me, “Isn’t she wonderful? She is so gay and happy all the time.”

They weren’t quite ready for Clark immediately after lunch, so Sylvia and I went visiting on other MGM sets. 

“You are really in love with that big lug, aren’t you?” I asked the blonde beauty as we walked toward the Loretta Young set where she is making “Cause for Alarm” for her producer husband, Tom Lewis.

“Yes I am,” Sylvia said with real feeling. “I never hoped to know anything like this again. After Doug (Fairbanks) died, I married Lord Stanley principally because I was so lonely. But this is real love–Clark is so sweet, so kind and so thoughtful.”

If we had been visiting royalty we couldn’t have had a nicer reception than Loretta, Tom and Barry Sullivan, the leading man, gave us.

We felt guilty when they insisted on stopping for tea because this is Tom’s first fling as a producer, and every moment counted on his schedule.

We also visited Red Skelton on his “Watch The Birdie” set. Red had been with us at the Sanford’s party the night before and Sylvia couldn’t get over his pep.

“I got in at 4:00 this morning,” he confided, “and I was at the studio at 6:00!”

When we returned to Clark’s picture, and Sylvia told him that Red had stayed out until 4:00, King Gable laughed:

“Well, darling, he is younger than I am. I have to get my sleep!”

“Oh, I didn’t mean that,” gasped Sylvia–who I am sure, thinks Clark Gable is the youngest looking and best looking man in the word.

Yes, my friends, the Gables are very happy–and I’m betting they stay that way.

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That’s a bet she lost! So interesting the new Mrs. Gable was on Loretta Young’s set….