Gossip Friday: Mrs. Clark Gable Pays Her Bill

From March 1932:

Well, well, well, Mrs. Clark Gable certainly pays her bills on time. She was in Magnin’s shortly after the first of January and gave the saleslady a check to take to the accounting department to see if it checked with the store’s figures of what she owed them. She had kept track of her bill and brought in the check before she received an accounting! And was she getting attention! Seven salesladies hovering over her at once. And the customers whispering to each other, “That’s Mrs. Clark Gable.”

I couldn’t help but remember Clark’s remark, “And a year ago I could have walked down Hollywood Boulevard munching a doughnut and no one would have paid any attention.” —Least of all the salesladies of an exclusive shop.