Gossip Friday: All Wet

From January 1935:

Clark Gable is well aware that the life of a movie star is not a bed of roses; but, nevertheless, he got a surprise while he was working in “Copy Cat” with Constance Bennett.

The actor, according to the script, was required to make a leap into a rowboat. He obeyed instructions, but, alas, he landed so hard that his weight caused him to crash through the bottom of the boat, and there he was entangled until he was rescued.

If Gable attempted the “stunt” when he was alone he undoubtedly would have been drowned. 

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“Copy Cat” was After Office Hours.