Gossip Friday: Musings from 1935

From August 1935:

Clark Gable has been hunting again–with that grand new rifle of his, which has gold sights and mountings that catch the sunlight and warn any animal within range that he is on its trail.  The plan to have his debutante stepdaughter, Georgiana, screentested seems to be in abeyance at the moment. We understand that Clark is wholly in favor of the idea, but wants to take the tests with her and have her gowned by Adrian first.

Remember the first time you saw Clark Gable in a picture with Connie Bennett? He played the part of the milkman in “The Easiest Way.” And if you will recall how good he was and how this started him off to stardom, you’ll have to admit it was the easiest way.

Soooooooo…Time marches on! Skip a few years and here we have Gable in another picture with Bennett…it’s called “Town Talk” and we’d wager a few doughnuts that there will be at least one critic who will refer to it as a “Gable Picture” with Connie Bennett! Tsch, tsch..how times do change!

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First I’d heard of Ria’s daughter doing a screentest! And Clark played the laundryman in The Easiest Way, not the milkman. The picture referred to as “Town Talk” was After Office Hours.