Gossip Friday: Storks Flying West?

From December 1939:

The movie colony is as excited as a couple of maiden aunts over the persistent rumor that both Carole Lombard and Barbara Stanwyck are expecting babies. 

There’s no denying that Miss Lombard isn’t herself on the set these days. More than once she has displayed a Victorian fragility quite uncommon to her usual vivacious character by fainting during the filming of “Vigil in the Night.”

For future father Clark Gable there may be some vigils in the night yet to come. 

Miss Stanwyck has been cancelling her picture engagements and now has no future commitments. Enjoying this period of inactivity with her is handsome husband Bob Taylor. The couple’s fond smiles are not unlike those of expectant parents.

Have you seen any storks flying west?

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Unfortunately not true, for either couple.

You can read a history of the pregnancy rumors that followed Clark and Carole around in this piece I wrote: Carole Lombard, Clark Gable and the Baby That Never Was.