Gossip Friday: A Familiar Looking Couple
From November 1939:
One cold, fall night not long ago, an auto court manager in a small California mountain town rented a bearded man and his wife a cabin for one night. The manager didn’t pay much attention to the man, or the beard, because every male in town was growing one for the annual Fiesta. But he couldn’t he over how pretty the blonde girl was, and he was almost sure he had seen her before. The next morning word was buzzed about the town that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard had spent the night there, and left behind a hunting coat with Clark’s name in it. There were immediate suggestions that the coat be put on exhibition in the town hall so everyone could see it. The manager was offered up to one dollar for a small snip of the material by the most ardent Gable admirers. When Clark and Carole appeared a few days later, the coat was still intact, however, the manager was the proudest man in town.
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