Gossip Friday: Sudden Lapse

From November 1947: 

Clark Gable and his favorite girl friend, Iris Bynum, had a sudden lapse of romance when their friends began taking the courtship too seriously; always a signal to retreat for the actor. Meantime Mrs. Dolly O’Brien, the Palm Beach matron who interrupted her romance with Clark to marry Jose Dorelis whom she is now divorcing, is back in Hollywood at the moment. At a Santa Barbara party together, Mr. Gable was dancing constant attendance on the fair Dolly. Handsome director Freddy de Cordova, however, finds Iris the dream girl of the moment and seems to be rapidly extinguishing any torch the personable Bynum may be toting.