Gossip Friday: Jiminy Cripes

From September 1941:

Rumors spring out of nowhere in Hollywood and traverse the town’s grapevine routes like wildfire. A report that Gable and Carole Lombard were splitting up had the town on its ears one day last week. Gable, it was said, had quit home and gone to live with George Raft. After MGM’s phones buzzed for hours with queries, the matter was put squarely up to Gable.

“Jiminy Cripes,” he said, using much stronger language than that, “what have I done to get this? I don’t even know George Raft.”