Gossip Friday: Laughing Visitor

From June 1941:

There is one laugh in Hollywood you can never mistake–Carole Lombard’s. 

I hear it when I come onto the “Honky Tonk” set at MGM, and sure enough, there is Carole howling at Clark Gable’s get-up for his gambler’s role in the Alaskan melodrama.

Unperturbed, Gable takes her by the shoulders and kisses her upon the tip of her nose. 

“How are you, sweetie pie?” he asks.

Director Jack Conway and the roughly dressed actors in the saloon scene look on and grin appreciatively. 

“Papa,” says Carole, “I hear you really were hamming it up a few minutes ago.”

“Yeah,” says Clark. “You could smell the corn clear out on Washington Boulevard.”

At Conway’s suggestion, he reenacts for Carole the scene where he pulls one side of his coat open, then the other, revealing a gun strapped under each arm. 

“I can’t stand it!” exclaims Carole, letting out another screech of laughter. 

It’s always the same with these two.

In all the years I’ve known them, they never once have given me that business about their ART.

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I looooove this one. <3