Gossip Friday: Flustered by a Fan

From February 1957:

Never thought I’d live to see the day, or night, when Clark Gable, that big he-man, would literally look scared out of his wits because of a mere female. But that’s exactly what happened at the Hollywood premiere of “The Ten Commandments.”

Clark and his beautiful Kay were about the last to arrive, probably hoping they might slip into the theater without a lot of fanfare. That’s what they hoped!

Instead, just as he stepped from his limousine, a large, middle-aged woman ducked under the restraining rope and literally tackled Gable! She flung herself at him headlong, grabbing his knees, pawing and clawing him–and if the police hadn’t dashed up post haste, poor Clark might have wound up prone in the street! Never in his long career has The King been so flustered and understandably so.