Gossip Friday: Mr. and Mrs. Gable’s First Easter

Happy Anniversary Clark Gable and Carole Lombard!

Hollywood’s golden couple officially tied the knot 85 years ago today, March 29, 1939. They eloped to Kingman, Arizona and drove all night back to Los Angeles where they spent the next morning beaming at each other in front of the press, still in their wedding clothes. You can read more about their wedding day here.

A month later, the newlyweds spent their first Easter together as a married couple.

From April 30, 1939:

Easter Sunday found most of Hollywood’s famous celebrating the day at home with their families and friends. Andy Devine used the first Sunday he’s had off in weeks from “Geronimo” to entertain with a breakfast party for the newlyweds, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable. Early in the morning Carole assisted Andy’s young son, Tad, in an Easter egg hunt.