Gossip Friday: He’s Sorry Now

From April 1939 (gossip columnist Sheilah Graham):

Do you recognize Andy Devine in the role of Cupid? Well, take another look. When I talked to him on Paramount’s “Geronimo” set, he told me that he was responsible or the Kingman, Ariz. elopement of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. “Gable called me up the night before and said, ‘Well I think we’re going to do it tomorrow, but we don’t know where. Can you suggest any place?’ ‘Sure,’ I replied, ‘my home town–Kingman, Ariz. And I can get everything fixed for you.’

“But I’m sorry I suggested it now,” Andy added, “they used to say of Kingman–‘this is where Andy Devine was bor. Now they will say, ‘this is where Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married!'”