Gossip Friday: Update on Clark

From January 1945:

The delay in Clark Gable’s return to the screen is due to his refusal to do service pictures.

“I turned down several scripts,” Clark tells me, “because they can’t help from making a hero out of you and I wouldn’t feel good about that considering the people who really are doing something about the war.”

Clark wants to come back in something that is straight entertainment. Either “Strange Adventure” or “Lucky Baldwin” is okay with him.

And now about those persistent rumors that Gable will wed Dolly O’Brien, widow of Jay O’Brien. Clark is close-mouthed about this sort of thing but I don’t believe these two good friends (they have known each other for 15 years) will wed any time soon. Probably never will.