Gossip Friday: Just that Swell!

A letter to a movie magazine, January 1941:

Clark Gable is a very natural, homespun sort of actor that never seems to go high-hat or stale. I like him. All his pictures, including the much-critised “Parnell”, have been good in my estimation.

 The nicest, most pleasant things I’ve ever read in Photoplay or any other motion picture magazine in regard to any actor are the things written about the Gable farm. Not that I feel Clark could enjoy ploughing through the fields of mud and slop I’ve witnessed in the country…but with his money, the up-to-date paraphernalia and what-not, his farm is a wonderland and it is a credit to his wisdom to live that clean, wholesome, sane life.

 Confidentially, as things are now, I wouldn’t much mind being a horse on the Gable farm.

 Not that I’d expect Carole to waste a bedtime story upon me…but it looks like that Gables are just that swell!

 Sybil Leach, St. Joseph, MO

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Article from 1941, Roughing It