Gossip Friday: Covered in Oil

From December 1940:

Clark Gable says he hopes he’ll never, NEVER have to play the role of a garbage-collector. Not that garbage-collectors aren’t very nice people, in their place–but look a what happened to Gable for playing that oil-man role in Boom Town-

From his fans, since the picture, Clark has gotten a slough of gifts reflecting the oil-fields role. Among the presents are miniature oil derricks, nearly 500 pictures of old gushers and old boom towns, samples of crude oil in every conceivable type of bottle and flask and container, books about oil, souvenirs from famed oil fields and wells, nearly tons of oil shale, paper-weights and other gadgets made from old oil-well machinery, bales of fancy oil stock, watch charms, newspapers and such things.

The flood is so huge that Gable is thinking of setting aside in his house a room for the oil-role trophies, like his horse-trophy room.

BUT–as we’ve said–he sure hopes he’ll never have to play that garbage-collector role.

Or even the role of Don Juan. He fears Carole wouldn’t like him having a roomful of conquests for trophies…