Gossip Friday: Not a Cowboy in This Grass

From March 1937:

Clark Gable in a ten-gallon hat, and the duds of the plains–and maybe even wearing chaps…that’s an interesting vision, and one nearer the innate Gable personality than most, if you seriously consider (and why not?) how he favors the outdoors for recreation.

This Clark Gable may be realized in “Sea of Grass,” for I understand there is much talk about his playing the lead in that picture, regarded as a follow-up (in American environment) for “The Good Earth-“–with its Chinese.

“Sea of Grass: is an epic programmed for late in the year at MGM. Sidney Franklin is already settled on as its director. Spencer Tracy will probably play in the film. 

When Gable made his entry into pictures he appeared in “The Painted Desert” with outdoor background, but he hasn’t often ventured into the American scene in the open air since on the screen.

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“Sea of Grass” wasn’t made until 1947 and starred Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker and Melvyn Douglas.