Gossip Friday: Turkey Trouble

Since yesterday was Thanksgiving, here’s one from September 1940:

Clark Gable and Robert Young both have their troubles with fowl-fancying ventures. Gable had turkey trouble, Young encountered chicken grief…

Clark and wife Carole Lombard had been raising two dozen turkeys, for Thanksgiving–both their own Thanksgiving feast and as gifts to friends. BUT the other day, they decided to give something else when November rolls around. Reason: They had sprayed weeds on their ranch with weed-killing poison, and then the turkeys came along and gobbled the weeds. That was when Gable found that weed-killer is turkey-killer, too.

As for Robert Young–well, he doesn’t like chicken pie anymore. This is the weird reason: To stock his valley ranch, Young ordered some very rare and expensive Indo-China chickens. Somehow, the order got mixed with a crate of chickens that were being delivered the same day to the MGM lot, for use in the commissary. Unaware of what was happening, the chef killed Young’s chickens, made chicken pie of them–and not until he had eaten chicken pie for lunch that very day did Bob learn what had happened to his Indo-China fowl.