Gossip Friday: Follow That Car

From September 1950:

In the year since [Rosemary Clooney] was just a singer with Tony Pastor’s band she had reached celebrity status, but is still celebrity-shy, when she meets the big ones. Leaving the broadcasting studio one day, she saw Clark Gable getting into a taxi; jumping into another cab, she cried, “Follow that car!” and pursued Gable’s cab for seven blocks, gazing at the back of his head!