Gossip Friday: Delayed Honeymoon

From May 1939:

The Clark Gable-Carole Lombard honeymoon is definitely set for August.

They’ll probably spend two or three weeks roughing it in New Mexico’s painted desert and a week or two riding hither and yon from their new 14-acre San Fernando Valley ranch home.

Carole, who once rode a great deal, has done little of late but Clark moved his three horses onto the ranch the other say and she’s going to take it up again.

Clark gave Carole a horse a year ago but the nag turned out to be so frisky the screen hero later made his lady give him away.

Clark gets finished with “Gone with the Wind” at Selznick’s about July 1 and he’ll have a month to do any added scenes which may prove necessary. MGM wanted him to start “The Great Canadian,” a hockey story, immediately thereafter but Clark turned thumbs down on the idea, informing the studio he was entitled to time for a wedding trip first.

Over at RKO Carole completes “Memory of Love” in three weeks, and she’ll do her other picture for that studio, “Vigil in the Night” after only a weeks vacation. So she’ll be all set to get away around August 1.

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Clark in a hockey picture! Well that never happened. “Memory of Love” was re-named “In Name Only” before release.