Gossip Friday: Back to Silents

From December 1939:

Clark Gable had his voice back today, but his movie studio ordered him home to recuperate completely from an attack of laryngitis. 

Gable went to the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital last week and for some days he communicated by written notes. he lost his voice after a strenuous 12 hours of shouting while waist deep in water for a movie scene.