Gossip Friday: Good Picture

From September 1947:

Clark Gable has finally seen “Gone with the Wind.” He was telling on the “Homecoming” set how he happened to miss it. At the world premiere in Atlanta he was so weary from the civic celebration that he put his feet up on the railing before the front row and slept right through the picture.

When it came to the premiere here [in Los Angeles], his wife, the late Carole Lombard, said she didn’t want to sit through the four-hour show again. So they walked through the crowds, down the aisle and right out the back exit. Recently a friend arranged a showing and invited Cark. “Good picture,” he comments.

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Anita Colby, whom Clark was dating around this time, always claimed that she was with Clark when he saw GWTW for the first time all the way through.