Gossip Friday: A Handsome Pair

Since Clark and Kay were married 56 years ago on July 11, here’s some gossip on them from June 1944, when they were dating the first go-round:

At an Army and Navy dinner dance recently [we] sat kitty-corner from Captain Clark Gable who had pretty Kay Williams as his girl friend. [We] thought the two a handsome pair but couldn’t help comparing the quiet, almost demure Kay to the vivid, magnetic Carole. What a contrast.