Gossip Friday: A Request to Regress
From January 1934:
The latest report from The Merry Widow front is that Clark Gable has asked the studio to permit him to appear in the production as an extra.
There are sentimental reasons behind the request. Gable was an extra in the silent version six years ago.
The earlier Merry Widow won fame for Roy D’Arcy, whose name has passed from the lists of major stars now, and Clark is at the other end of the film see-saw.
At the moment of writing there is very little prospect of the Metro moguls acceding to his request.
One Comment
Carol
I’m sure MGM wouldn’t allow Clark to be an extra. I looked at IMDB & both Clark & Joan Crawford are listed in full cast & credits, but uncredited.
I know that this website is for Gable fans but I’d like to add that it’s 74th anniversary of Carole Lombard’s death. I love TCM (most of the time) and they aired Nothing Sacred & Made For Each Other very early Friday morning, before 6 am. Nothing Sacred is on TCM on demand & I watched it twice today & I laughed out loud both times.
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