Gossip Friday: Why the Sudden Crush?

From June 1943:

Clark Gable says that Mickey haunted him for two weeks once. He followed Gable all over the lot. When Gable looked up from his bowl of special chicken soup in the studio commissary, Mickey’s eyes were bored into Gable’s face.

Clark couldn’t figure it out. Why the sudden crush? The mystery was solved when Rooney did a devastating impersonation of Clark on the screen.

“I had to look away a couple of times when I saw it,” Gable said. “He was more like me than I am like myself. I recognized mannerisms that I did not know I had.” Incidentally, it got Clark over these same mannerisms.