Gossip Friday: Serving Carole

Since Sunday is the 71st anniversary of Clark and Carole’s marriage, here’s some gossip on her from 1940:

When the “They Knew What They Wanted” company had to go to Napa, California, for a two weeks’ location trip, most of the company lived in tents. But Carole Lombard decided that tenting was not to her liking and in as much as there wasn’t a hotel in Napa she stayed at a ranch nearby. Every night when she came back to the ranch for dinner after a day on location she noticed she was waited on by a different servant. On the fourth night, when she noticed the fourth change in servants, she began to get uneasy. “Is there something wrong about me?” she asked. “Aren’t these good people able to keep their servants now that I’m here. Servant problems are bad enough in Hollywood but I never heard of four changes in four nights before. “

Finally, the ranch owner put her wise. Seems as if all the gals in town wanted to get a close look at a Hollywood movie star, and particularly of Mr. Clark Gable’s wife, so they arranged to take turns serving her. “They’re the daughters of the social elite of Napa,” the rancher told her. “The bank president’s daughter served your soup tonight.”

New this week:

Film pages for Any Number Can Play and The White Sister.