Timeline

1901

February 1, 1901        William Clark Gable is born to Adeline and William Henry Gable in Cadiz, Ohio. He tipped the scales at ten and a half pounds.

July 31, 1901                 Baby Clark is baptized at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Dennison, Ohio.

November 14, 1901    Clark’s mother, Adeline Hershelman Gable, dies at age 32 in her hometown of Meadville, Pennslyvania.  Clark’s father leaves him there in the care of Adeline’s parents and brother and his wife

1903

April 16, 1903                     Clark’s father, Bill Gable, marries Jennie Dunlap. They retrieve Clark from Meadville and move to Hopedale, Ohio.

1911

Bill Gable builds the family a home on Church Street in Hopedale.

1917

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Bill Gable sells the family home in Hopedale and they move 50 miles north to Palmyra Township, Ohio. Clark attends Edinburgh High School there.

1918

Clark drops out of school and heads to Akron to work at the Firestone tire plant. It is there he sees his first play, at Akron Music Hall, and is bitten by the acting bug.

1920

January 11, 1920           Clark’s stepmother Jennie Dunlap dies at age 46. Clark returns to Palmyra to see her before her death. She is buried in Palmyra Cemetery.

September 1920                After work dries up in Akron, Clark reluctantly follows his father to Big Heart, Oklahoma to be a wildcatter.

1922

February 1, 1922               After a huge fight, Clark leave his father behind in Oklahoma and went to the bank in Meadville, Pennslyvania to collect the $300 trust fund his mother’s father had left for him on his 21st birthday.

Summer 1922                Clark meets Franz Dorfler and they become sweethearts. They both travel and act with the Astoria Players, paid next to nothing. They become engaged.

1923

Clark works in the classified department at the local newspaper and as a telephone lineman.

1924

Summer 1924                    While Franz is away touring with an acting troupe in Seattle, Clark begins taking lessons from Josephine Dillon.

December 13, 1924         Marries first wife Josephine Dillon in Portland, Oregon.

1927

Spring 1927                                  Clark travels to Houston to join the Laskin Brothers Stock Company.

Summer 1927                             Clark meets 44 year old Houston socialite Maria “Ria” Franklin Langham. They begin an affair.

1928

July 1928                                Clark arrives in New York City to try his hand at Broadway.

September 7,1928              The play Machinial opens in New York at the Plymouth Theater with Clark Gable in the lead.

1930

April 1, 1930                      Josephine Dillon is granted a divorce from Clark in Los Angeles Superior Court.

May 1930                              Clark heads to Los Angeles with his stock company.

June 7, 1930                          Clark stars in The Last Mile at The Belasco Theater.

July 1930                               Begins filming The Painted Desert on location in Arizona.

November 4, 1930          Begins filming Dance Fools Dance.

December 4, 1930          Clark signs his first contract, with Metro Goldwyn Mayer, for $650 a week.

1931

February 4, 1931                 Begins filming Laughing Sinners.

February 7, 1931                  The Easiest Way and Dance Fools Dance premiere.

March 7, 1931                       The Painted Desert premieres.

April 11, 1931                        The Finger Points premieres.

April 18, 1931                       The Secret Six premieres.

May 30, 1931                        Laughing Sinners premieres.

June 19,1931                         Marries second wife Ria Franklin in Santa Ana, California.

June 20, 1931                       A Free Soul premieres.

August 8,1931                      Sporting Blood and Night Nurse premiere.

September 21, 1931             Begins filming Possessed.

October 1, 1931                     Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise premieres.

November 21, 1931               Possessed premieres.

1932

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January 16, 1932             Hell Divers premieres.

February 27, 1932           Polly of the Circus premieres.

March 1932                        Clark, Ria and her two children move into a (rented) Spanish style home located at 1115 San Ysidro Drive in Beverly Hills.

April 12, 1932                    Clark and Ria attend the premiere of Grand Hotel at Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

May 12, 1932                      Clark and Carole Lombard are photographed having breakfast together in the Paramount commissary during production of No Man of Her Own.

October 22, 1932             Red Dust premieres.

November 8, 1932           Attends the Mayfair Ball with Ria.

December 30, 1932         No Man of Her Own and Strange Interlude premiere.

1933

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January 5, 1933             On a hunting trip in Lake Arrowhead, California.

March 27, 1933              Attends a dinner party for George Bernard Shaw; he is photographed with Shaw, Louis B. Mayer and Marion Davies.

April 19, 1933                 Clark and Ria attend an Easter dinner in the Gold Room of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel

June 12, 1933                 Leaves the set of Dancing Lady with a high fever. He had developed pyorrhea from his rotting teeth and severe gum disease. Almost all of his teeth were removed and  he was fitted with dentures.

June 24, 1933                  Clark returns to the set of Dancing Lady to film the one scene he has with Fred Astaire. He nearly collapses and is rushed back to the hospital.

July 24, 1933                   Clark is photographed in his pajamas and robe, recovering at home, surrounded by Ria, Jean Harlow and Mary Astor.

July 7, 1933                      Hold Your Man premieres.

October 6, 1933               Night Flight premieres.

October 20, 1933           Finally healed, Clark returns to the set of Dancing Lady to complete the film, which was $150,000 over budget due to the delay.

November 22, 1933        Photographed with Ria at a party with John Gilbert and his wife Virginia Bruce.

November 24, 1933          Dancing Lady  and The White Sister premiere.

November 26, 1933             Begins filming It Happened One Night.

December 23, 1933             Last day of production on It Happened One Night.

1934

February 5, 1934           Clark and Ria arrive on the Twentieth Century in New York to begin a publicity tour.

February 7, 1934            Clark and Ria are photographed at a New York nightclub with Peggy Hopkins Joyce.

February 8, 1934           Clark takes a tour of the New York Daily News offices.

February 22, 1934        It Happened One Night premieres.

April 6, 1934                      Men in White premieres.

May 4, 1934                        Manhattan Melodrama premieres.

September 1, 1934             Chained premieres.

September 19, 1934         Clark is photographed with Helen Hayes and Norma Shearer at the opening party for the Trocadero Club in Hollywood.

November 9, 1934            Clark is photographed playing golf with Joe Schenck and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. playing golf at the Catalina Island golf course.

December 21, 1934           Performs “After Office Hours” on the radio program Hollywood Hotel.

December 23, 1934           Forsaking All Others premieres.

December 26, 1934           Pictured at the Santa Anita race track with Hal Roach.

1935

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January 3, 1935             Clark, Loretta Young and the cast and crew head to Mount Baker, Washington to begin what would be a long and treacherous location shoot for Call of the Wild.

February 7, 1935            Clark and Loretta are photographed having lunch together in Seattle.

February 22, 1935         After Office Hours premieres.

February 27, 1935        Clark Gable wins what would be his only Academy Award, for Best Actor in It Happened One Night. The ceremony was held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

May 26, 1935                  Photographed with Carole Lombard, Cary Grant and Ricardo Cortez at a party at Cortez’ home.

June 1935                         Filming Mutiny on the Bounty off the coast of California.

August 9, 1935                Performs “China Seas” on the radio program Hollywood Hotel.

August 9, 1935               Call of the Wild premieres.

August 16, 1935              China Seas premieres.

November 6, 1935        Judith Young, daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young, is born in Venice, California.

November 8, 1935           Mutiny on the Bounty premieres.

November 11, 1935       Performs “His Misleading Lady” on the radio program Lux Radio Theater.

1936

January 26, 1936       Clark attends the Annual Mayfair Ball. Carole Lombard was the hostess and requested all women wear white; Norma Shearer famously showed up in red. Clark and Carole share a dance.

February 7, 1936  Clark attends a party at Jock Whitney’s house, to celebrate screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart’s wife’s recent release from a sanitarium, jokingly called “The Nervous Breakdown Party.” Clark and Carole Lombard got into a fight, after he tells her that her arriving in a  straitjacket and ambulance were in poor taste. Near the end of the party, Carole challenges Clark to a game of tennis.

February 25, 1936     Attends a Screen Actors Guild Dinner-Dance at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles; photographed sitting with Marion Davies.

February 28, 1936   Wife vs. Secretary premieres.

March 5, 1936          Nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty, Clark attends the Academy Awards at the Biltmore Hotel, with Merle Oberon as his date.

April 18, 1936         Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are photographed together for the first time as a couple, at the midget auto races in Gilmore Stadium, Los Angeles.

June 1, 1936             Performs “The Legionnaire and the Lady” on the radio program Lux Radio Theater.

June 26, 1936             San Francisco premieres.

September 20, 1936      Clark Gable and Joan Crawford pose for a number of photographs to publicize the Hollywood Press Photographer’s Frolic.

September 26, 1936    Cain and Mabel premieres.

September 30, 1936         Clark and Carole are photographed at a premiere.

November 20, 1936        Love on the Run premieres.

1937

January 1937                Clark and Carole attend an Actors Fund Benefit, where Clark performs an It Happened One Night sketch with Claudette Colbert.

January 20, 1937            Puts his handprints and footprints in cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. He inscribes it to Sid Grauman: “To Sid who is a great guy”

January 21, 1937         Clark and Carole attend a party for Dr. Harry Martin, president of the California Athletic Commission.

February 2, 1937     Appears with Carole Lombard on the radio program Red Cross Flood Relief.

March 4, 1937           Clark and Carole attend the Academy Awards at the Biltmore Hotel. Carole is nominated (but loses) for My Man Godfrey.

March 5, 1937              Pictured with a wild cougar he brought home from a hunting trip, he gave it to Carole Lombard.

April 5, 1937              Performs “A Farewell to Arms” on the radio program Lux Radio Theater.

April 20, 1937           Clark and Carole attend the premiere of A Star is Born.

April 22, 1937           The Violet Norton trial begins.

May 9, 1937                Clark and Carole attend Marion Davies’ Circus Costume Party in Hollywood; they dressed as cowboys.

June 4, 1937               Parnell premieres.

June 7, 1937              Clark’s friend and frequent co-star Jean Harlow dies at age 26 during production of Saratoga.

June 9, 1937              Clark and Carole Lombard attend the funeral of Jean Harlow at Forest Lawn Glendale. Clark was a pallbearer.

July 23, 1937             Saratoga premieres.

September 18, 1937   Clark and Carole are photographed together at the Los Angeles Tennis Club.

October 17, 1937     Performs “All Quiet on the Western Front” on the radio program The Chase and Sanborn Hour.

December 5, 1937   Performs “Detour to Love” on the radio program The Silver Theater.

December 9, 1937        Clark Gable and Myrna Loy are crowned the “King and Queen of Hollywood” by popular vote. They are presented with crowns on Ed Sullivan’s NBC radio show.

December 21, 1937    Clark and Carole attend the world premiere of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Cathay Circle Theater in Los Angeles.

1938

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February 1, 1938             MGM throws Clark a big birthday party on the set of Test Pilot, complete with a giant cake with a crown on it and Judy Garland singing “Dear Mr. Gable…”

March 30, 1938               Clark and Carole Lombard are photographed at the Santa Anita racetrack.

April 18, 1938                Attends the Beverly Hills Tennis Tournament with Carole.

April 22, 1938               Test Pilot premieres.

May 5, 1938                 Performs “Manhattan Melodrama” on the radio program Good News.

July 7, 1938                    Too Hot to Handle premieres.

July 8, 1938                 Clark and Carole attend the world premiere of Norma Shearer’s Marie Antoinette at the Cathay Circle Theater.

August 27, 1938          Signs the contract with Selznick International Pictures to play Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind.

October 28, 1938       Performs “A Free Soul” on the radio program Good News.

November 14, 1938   Performs “The Buccaneer” on the radio program Lux Radio Theater.

1939

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January 27, 1939         Idiot’s Delight premieres.

January 31, 1939        Clark films his first scene as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, the Atlanta Bazaar scene.

March 8, 1939              Ria Franklin is granted a divorce from Clark in Las Vegas.

March 20, 1939           Performs “It Happened One Night” on the radio program Lux Radio Theater.

March 29, 1939           Clark and Carole Lombard are married in Kingman, Arizona.

March 30, 1939           Clark and Carole hold a brief news conference on her front lawn with the press to announce their marriage.

April 30, 1939             Attends Lionel Barrymore’s 61st birthday party on the MGM lot along with Mickey Rooney, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Robert Taylor and many others; it is broadcast over the radio.

October 17, 1939          Begins filming Strange Cargo.

October 29, 1939         Performs “Imperfect Lady” on the radio program The Gulf Screen Guild Theater.

November 11, 1939     Films the last scene in Gone with the Wind. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

December 10, 1939     Performs “For Richer, For Richer” on the radio program The Silver Theater.

December 14, 1939      Clark Gable and Carole arrive in Atlanta for the world premiere of Gone with the Wind.

December 15, 1939       Gone with the Wind world premiere is held at Loew’s Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.

December 28, 1939       Clark Gable and Carole Lombard attend the Los Angeles premiere of Gone with the Wind.

1940

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February 18, 1940       Performs on the radio program The Chase and Sanborn Hour.

March 1, 1940               Strange Cargo premieres.

August 21, 1940            Photographed by Carole Lombard golfing with Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor.

August 25, 1940           Begins filming Comrade X.

August 30, 1940           Boom Town premieres.

October 6, 1940           Performs “Red Dust” on the radio program The Gulf Screen Guild Theater.

December 13, 1940      Comrade X premieres.

1941

January 8, 1941        Clark and Carole Lombard attend the Greek War Relief Benefit at Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

July 2, 1941                 Honky Tonk begins filming.

July 27, 1941               They Met in Bombay premieres.

October 1, 1941          Honky Tonk premieres.

December 14, 1941   Performs “The Great McGinty” on The Screen Actors Guild Theater.

1942

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January 12, 1942         Carole Lombard departs Los Angeles for her war bond tour.

January 16, 1942         Carole, her mother Bessie Peters and MGM publicity man Otto Winkler, among others, all perish in a plane crash on Mount Potosi in Nevada on their way home from the war bond tour. Clark immediately flies to the crash site and remains there until their bodies are recovered; he accompanies the bodies back to Los Angeles via train.

January 21, 1942         Joint funeral held for Carole and her mother at Forest Lawn Glendale. They are laid to rest side by side in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Trust.

August 4, 1942            Performs on the radio program Command Performance.

August 12, 1942          Clark is sworn into the United States Army.

August 19, 1942          Clark is photographed shaving off his mustache upon entering Officer Candidate School in Miami.

August 27, 1942         Somewhere I’ll Find You premieres.

October                        Graduates from Officers Candidate School in Miami. He gives the graduation address.

1943

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August 12, 1943          Captain Clark Gable broadcasts to America on NBC Radio from London, England to urge war bond purchases.

1944

January 15, 1944        Clark, Louis B. Mayer and Carole’s dear friend Fieldsie Lang stand by and watch Irene Dunne break the champagne bottle to christen the Liberty ship the S.S. Carole Lombard.

June 2, 1944              Clark’s Army discharge papers are signed by Captain Ronald Reagan.

October 26, 1944      Performs on the radio program Command Performance.

October 30, 1944       Performs “Take Her Down” on the radio program The Cavalcade of America.

 November 2, 1944   Photographed dancing with Nancy “Slim” Hawks at Ciro’s Nightclub in Hollywood.

December 4, 1944   Performs “China Seas” on the radio program The Gulf Screen Guild Theater.

1945

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May 2, 1945                  Performs on the radio program Mail Call.

December 28, 1945      Adventure premieres.

1946

March 23, 1946             Clark is photographed skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho with Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman and Jack Hemingway.

June 19, 1946                 Attends the Joe Louis-Billy Conn heavyweight title fight at Yankee Stadium, with Betty Chisholm.

July 1, 1946                     Attends the premiere of Canyon Passage with Ella Raines.

July 1946                           Pictured on a date with Joan Crawford at the Cabana Club in Santa Monica.

November 21, 1946      Performs on the radio program The Burns and Allen Show.

1947

April 1947                      Begins filming Command Decision.

August 7, 1947             Appears as a guest on Louella Parsons’ radio program on ABC.

August 27, 1947           The Hucksters premieres.

1948

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May 1, 1948                     Homecoming premieres.

July 7, 1948                     Boards the Queen Mary en route to Europe. Nancy “Slim” Hawks is pictured at the dock hugging him goodbye. Clark reportedly stayed at Dolly O’Brien’s villa in the French Riviera.

July 1948                          Clark is photographed chatting with Katharine Hepburn in Paris, France.

August 12, 1948             Queen Mary arrives back in New York. Clark is pictured on board with Spencer Tracy and Charles Boyer.

August 4, 1948               Clark’s father, William Henry Gable, dies in Los Angeles at age 75. He is interred in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.

December 23, 1948       Command Decision premieres.

1949

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January 4, 1949               Begins filming Any Number Can Play.

January 6, 1949               Clark’s close friend, director Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind), dies suddenly at age 65. Clark is a pallbearer at his funeral.

April 26, 1949                   Metro Goldwyn Mayer celebrates its 25th anniversary with a big luncheon at the studio, where stars were arranged to sit in alphabetical order. Clark was between Errol Flynn and Ava Gardner.

July 1949                           Begins filming Key to the City.

July 15, 1949                   Any Number Can Play premieres.

December 1, 1949        Performs “Command Decision” on the radio program The Screen Guild Theater.

December 20, 1949     Marries fourth wife Sylvia Ashley in Solvang, California.

1950

May                                Begins filming To Please a Lady.

May 1, 1950                Clark and Sylvia are photographed attending a polo match at the Riviera Country Club, along with David Niven and Hedy Lamarr.

June                              Clark and Sylvia head to Indianapolis for location shooting at the Indianapolis Speedway for To Please a Lady.

July                               Clark and Sylvia arrive in Colorado for location shooting for Across the Wide Missouri.

August 25, 1950       Clark and Sylvia attend the premiere of Key to the City

1951

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February 1, 1951           Sylvia throws a big dinner party at their home for Clark’s 50th birthday. They get in a fight because the cook served spoiled chicken.

April 17, 1951                Clark walks Sylvia Ashley to her plane as she heads to her native England; they awkwardly pose for the press.

May 31, 1951                  Sylvia Ashley files for divorce from Clark Gable in Los Angeles.

June 1951                       Begins filming Lone Star.

July 17, 1951                  Attends the premiere of Showboat in Los Angeles.

October 23, 1951          Across the Wide Missouri premieres.

1952

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January 22, 1952      Clark is pictured boarding a plane in the UK to Paris, France.

February 1952           Clark gives a speech in support of Republican Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower at Madison Square Garden in New York

February 8, 1952       Lone Star premieres.

April 21, 1952             After a brief hearing, Sylvia Ashley is granted a divorce from Clark Gable in Los Angeles.

June 1952                     Arrives in London to begin filming Never Let Me Go at MGM British Studios. This is the start of an 18 month tax exile.

September 1952         Clark spends his break between films with Suzanne Dadolle at a deluxe resort in Lake Como, Italy.

November 1, 1952       Arrives in Nairobi to begin filming Mogambo.

December 1952            Clark flies home to Los Angeles for a short period of time after he develops a gum infection regarding his false teeth. He only trusted his own dentist to rectify the problem.

1953

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January 1953              Production on Mogambo moves to MGM British Studios for interior shots.

May 1, 1953                 Never Let Me Go premieres.

Summer                        Clark is photographed around Europe with Suzanne Dadolle.

September 1953         Begins filming Betrayed in Holland.

October 9, 1953          Mogambo premieres.

December 13, 1953     Clark returns home to Los Angeles, after spending 18 months abroad.

1954

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March 1954                               Clark announces through his publicist that he is leaving Metro Goldwyn Mayer after 23 years at the studio.

March 24, 1954                       Clark attends the Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theater with Grace Kelly as his date. Grace was nominated (but lost) for Mogambo.

September 7, 1954                Betrayed premieres.

September 29, 1954            Clark and Kay Williams attend the world premiere of A Star is Born at the RKO Pantages Theater in Hollywood.

October 19, 1954                   Clark and Kay are photographed golfing at The Thunderbird Ranch in Palm Springs.

November 6, 1954                Clark and Kay Williams attend the wrap party for The Seven Year Itch at Romanoff’s In Beverly Hills; he is pictured dancing with Marilyn Monroe.

November 19, 1954              Photographed around Tokyo before departing to Hong Kong to begin filming Soldier of Fortune.

1955

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May 22, 1955                 Solider of Fortune premieres.

July 11, 1955                  Clark marries fifth wife Kay Williams in Minden, Nevada.

July 14, 1955                   Photographed doing an interview with Louella Parsons.

July 20, 1955                  Clark and Kay hold a press conference on the front lawn of their Encino home.

August 9, 1955               Clark and Kay attend a party at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

September 8, 1955       Clark is pictured at the Ice Capades, next to Jack Lemmon.

September 22, 1955    Clark and Kay attend the The Tall Men premiere at Grauman Chinese Theater.

October 8, 1955            Clark and Kay are photographed out on the town in Hollywood.

October 22, 1955          Clark and Kay announce to the press that they are expecting a baby.

November 1955             Kay is stricken with influenza and after taking a new medicine not properly tested on pregnant women, lapses into a coma and miscarries.

1956

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January 27, 1956            Clark and Kay are photographed at their home in Encino.

April 1956                          Clark and Kay head to St. George Utah for several weeks for location shooting for The King and Four Queens.

October 17, 1956             Clark and Kay attend the premiere of Giant in Los Angeles.

December 21, 1956         The King and Four Queens premieres.

1957

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January 1957                     Clark and Kay head to Baton Rouge for six weeks of location shooting for Band of Angels.

February 1, 1957               Kay throws Clark a birthday party at the Baton Rouge Country Club.

April 11, 1957                      Clark and Kay attend the premiere of  Jimmy Stewart’s The Spirit of St. Louis.

May 11, 1957                         Clark and Kay attend Doris Day’s housewarming party at her home at 713 North Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills.

June 1957                             Clark and Kay buy a second home in Palm Springs, overlooking the Bermuda Dunes Golf Club.

August 3, 1957                   Band of Angels premieres.

September 7, 1957            Run Silent, Run Deep premieres.

December 31, 1957           Clark and Kay attend a New Year’s Eve party at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills, where Clark is famously photographed with Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart.

1958

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January 31, 1958     Clark and Kay arrive in Tampa, Florida, en route to a cruise through the West                                                    Indies

March 26, 1958        Clark and Kay attend the 30th Annual Academy Awards at RKO Pantages Theater, where Clark presents two awards with Doris Day.

April 1, 1958             Clark and Kay attend the premiere of Teacher’s Pet.

April 2, 1958             Clark and Kay visit the White House and pose for pictures with President Dwight Eisenhower.

1959

February 1, 1959        Kay throws Clark a big birthday party at their home in Palm Springs; she gives him a custom golf cart.

May 20, 1959              Clark and Kay are photographed attending the Bolshoi Ballet at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

June 24, 1959             Clark, along with Kay and her two children, arrives in New York en route to Italy to begin filming It Started in Naples.

June 26, 1959            Clark, Kay and her two children are photographed boarding the Holland America’s Nieuw Amsterdam en route to Europe.

August 10, 1959            After spending the summer touring Europe, the family arrives in Rome to begin It Started in Naples.

August 19, 1959            But Not For Me premieres.

October 1959                 Clark and Kay are photographed strolling around London.

1960

clark gable marilyn monroe the misfits

July 18, 1960            Begins shooting The Misfits in Reno.

August 1960              Clark and the cast of The Misfits are photographed at a press conference for the film at The Mapes Hotel in Reno.

August 7, 1960            It Started in Naples premieres.

September 1960         Clark and Kay announce that they are expecting a baby.

November 4, 1960      The last scene of The Misfits is filmed, with Clark and Marilyn Monroe in the car gazing at the dark sky.

November 6, 1960      Suffers a heart attack at his home in Encino and is rushed to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.

November 16, 1960     Suffers a second heart attack and dies suddenly, at 10:50pm.

November 19, 1960     Clark’s funeral is held at Forest Lawn Glendale.

November 23, 1960      Clark Gable is interred next to Carole Lombard in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Trust in Forest Lawn Glendale.

1961

Kay and John Clark Gable

February 1, 1961            The Misfits premieres, on what would have been Clark’s 60th birthday.

March 20, 1961               Kay gives birth to Clark’s son, John Clark Gable, at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.