Gossip Friday: Four is Enough
From 1954:
Clark Gable says flatly that after four marriages he’s through for life, though he is reported to be very fond of Arizona socialite Betty Chisholm. She’s a sophisticated girl and makes Gable laugh–a must for any Gable wife. And sometimes Fate takes a hand in these conflicts of the head and heart and brings a reluctant admirer to heel.
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After his marriage to Sylvia Ashley imploded, Clark was repeatedly quoted as saying he would never get married again. But of course he did marry again, in 1955–to Kay Spreckels.
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Dan
I wonder if it’s true that the only reason Clark married Kay initially was that she became pregnant with his child? Whatever the case may be, I’m glad he found peace and contentment with her the last few years of his life. He deserved that after the way he had silently suffered for years after 1942.
KoniginElle
I think he already wanted to marry her. They’ve been starting living together before marriage and Clark was already happy. I take it to heart when Clark said:
“My marriage to Kathleen,” he exclaims, “is something! For the first time in my life I’m really living. For me it’s happy days in Dixie. My only regret is that I didn’t have this kind of setup years ago.”
-that says a lot how much he loved her, though he’s too manly enough not to specifically used the word “love,” what he said right there is powerful enough as if he said it already. –
“Nowadays I’m in a big rush to get home. On this last picture of mine, I kept needling Raoul Walsh, the director. ‘Let’s speed it up,’ I’d say. ‘I gotta get home to the wife and kids.’ Raoul would howl.”
“While Kay Williams Spreckels has not been in Durango, Mexico, where Clark Gable is emoting in “The Tall Men,” the king has written or telephoned her every day and according to one of my friends on the set he has not said more than “Buenos Dias” to any girl since he arrived in Mexico.”
I’m sorry to break this to you romantic fans of Gable. He loved both women in his life: Carole and Kay. It wasn’t just Carole alone. Accept it because that’s the truth. It’s normal in life. You can’t really say Carole was the love of his life because you wouldn’t know if the marriage endured had she lived.