Gossip Friday: Whiskers and All

From March 1940:

During “Gone with the Wind” Clark Gable often remarked that nothing could give him greater pleasure than a haircut. But since “Strange Cargo” has been before the cameras, the actor has decided a shave can mean more to a guy than a haircut. Relating his miseries over the nine-day growth of beard which his role required, Gable said he was awfully tired of being hailed as Mr. Zola. And worse than having someone ask you why you don’t get a haircut or a violin,”he said,”is to have someone ask why you don’t get a snood for the whiskers!”