Gossip Friday: He Just Wants to Be Alone
From January 1937:
I hope for better luck on my New York vacation than Clark Gable had. He went for three weeks and stayed three days. The reason he had to leave was because he couldn’t keep the chambermaids out of his hotel room. Even if the crowds in the streets did knock over a taxi-cab in which he was riding, due to the crush they created in trying to grab a glimpse of him, he did eventually escape. But he couldn’t get away from the chambermaids in his hotel. They bootlegged the keys to his room to one another so that America’s favorite he-man could neither sleep nor take a bath.
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2 Comments
Dan
Omg. How frightening is that? It sounds like crazy fans were just as prevalent in Gable’s day. Having said that, I don’t blame them for having been excited. In days when there wasn’t even television to see stars on a regular basis, personal sightings of anyone like Clark would probably be a once in a lifetime thrill
Barry Lane
Crazy fans, yes, but neither Gable nor other stars required a security team. Now some of these could readily be trying to kill those men and women.