Gossip Friday: Grand Marshal

From March 1947:

While we were there [on the set of “Song of Love”], Clark Gable came over to pay his respects to Katharine [Hepburn]. He had just started shooting on “The Hucksters” with Deborah Kerr, Metro’s new English star. If you haven’t already seen Deborah in the English picture “Vacation from Marriage” you have a treat in store for you when “The Hucksters” is released. In person, she has the same charm that we’ve noted in so many of the English actresses who have come over to this country recently–warmth, sincerity, and poise. Deborah told me, when I went over to her set, that Clark has been most gracious to her and her husband, has really rolled out the red carpet and appointed himself Grand Marshal in the California Chamber of Commerce. They’ve been spending all their weekends together touring southern California.