Gossip Friday: Where’s the fire?

From January 1940:

And now we have firemen Gable and Taylor, proud proprietors of their own fire-fighting apparactus, by cracky! While posing for publicity recently with the swanky MGM fire truck, Gable and Taylor were struck with the idea–and inrtigues, too, so to speak–that a fire company of their own to protect their property in the Valley wouldn’t be such a bad notion. So, upon recommendation of the fire chief, they purchased a neat secondhand job in the way of a chemical truck and are now offering their services to all their friends and neighbors. And to make the thing official Greer Garson, who is now appearing with Robert Taylor in “Remember?”, donated fire hats to the cause with ceremony and fluorish.

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New photos in the gallery

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