Gossip Friday: Most Kissed Man

From May 1947:

By the time he finishes “The Hucksters,” Clark Gable will be the most-kissed man in Hollywood. His first scene called for him to kiss Connie Gilchrist, who plays a telephone operator; three times. Later the same day, he kissed Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner and five-year-old Diane Perrine!

Clark has  dropped 20 pounds since he made “Adventure”–and not from all that kissing, either. He didn’t like the way he looked on the screen with all that weight and went to work exercising it off.

Here’s a little tip that may interest you. After seeing Gable and Ava Gardner in action, MGM is thinking about remaking some of the old films Clark made with Jean Harlow–particularly “Red Dust and “China Seas.”

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And Mogambo, remake of Red Dust and co-starring Ava Gardner, came out four years later.