Gossip Friday: Ranch Life

From July 1940:

Gable Considers Ranch Life

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, who have 20 acres in fruit trees near Hollywood, are going into ranching in a big way. They returned from Prescott, Ariz. carrying a 30-day option on a tract of 48,000 acres, which Mr. Gable this week said he would purchase, If so, he will stock it with thoroughbred cattle and point to it as a retirement site when he and Carole decide to quit pictures–which many believe may come much sooner than the expiration of Clark’s contract in 1945.

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Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned.