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Gossip Friday: Fed Up
From September 1937: Clark Gable is telling intimates he is “fed up” with his recent roles. And rightly. Those in the know say he is slipping just the tiniest bit at the box office. Well, you can’t always be first.
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Gossip Friday: Mudslide
From March 1941: The weather has been the topic of almost every conversation out here recently. The rain has caused floods, landslides and inconveniences for almost every one, and each land owner has his own problem to discuss. [Clark] Gable’s worry is his driveway. “You see,” he told me, “we have a good many horses on the place, and we can’t have any paved driveways. When cement gets wet, it is slippery, and the horses may fall. So I have crushed granite all over the place, and it does the trick as far as the animals are concerned. But it washes very badly, and each time we have a heavy…
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Gossip Friday: Brand New Duds
From November 1939: Fashion and local industry note: Out in Hollywood Clark Gable is sporting a brand new, fringed buckskin jacket made for him by Carl Scherer, Minneapolis Taxidermist. So pleased about it is Clark that he’s just ordered a whole suit of the same. Incidentally, Carole Lombard has also done a bit of shopping in town (by mail). She bought a whole flock of duck decoys from Le Boutin and Leo’s already had two reorders on them. Thought: Perhaps we’re overlooking this Hollywood market.
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Gossip Friday: Over and Under Exposed
From July 1938: As a newsreel cameraman, Clark Gable for a day was convinced he was a flop. For his role as a newsreel cameraman in “Too Hot to Handle,” Gable was called upon to cling to the top of a racing ambulance with his camera equipment while filming Myrna Lot trapped in a crashed burning plane. While Hal Rosson’s cameras were filming Gable and the burning plane on MGM’s Sixty Acres, Gable also was making an actual newsreel of Miss Loy and the blazing plane to be shown on the screen of his boss’ projection room. When Gable returned to the set the next day, he received a regulation…
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Gossip Friday: Too Close and Personal
From November 1956: Clark Gable has received tempting offers for the film rights to his life story which is a more dramatic tale than most movie heroes boast. But he intends to keep saying no, because he feels many of the most interesting episodes of his part are “too close and personal” to divulge them for public consumption–yet the biography wouldn’t be true without them.
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Gossip Friday: Daddy?
From July 1954: A few years ago Clark Gable passed through our town and walked into a little store in my neighborhood. My family and I were in the store, too, and joined the crowd around him. We were right beside him when my little sister started screaming, “Where is he, Daddy? I want to see him!” We looked down to see her pulling on Mr. Gable’s coattail, thinking it was her father’s! Alice Dickinson Panama City, Florida
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{New Article} 1948: The Gable Women
This 1948 article is one in a long list of ones from this time period after the War, after Carole, but before Sylvia, where the press was trying to guess who the next Mrs. Gable would be. This game would restart after Sylvia left the picture. At this point, in late 1948, the list of probable Mrs. Gables was narrowed down to Dolly O’Brien, Slim Hawks, Iris Bynum, Anita Colby and Virginia Grey. what of Anita Colby, Hollywood’s most glamourous executive? The fans were asking that one, because of all the Gable dates, she has received the most publicity. Anita is one of those girls everybody likes. It seems inconceivable…
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Gossip Friday: Just One Question
From July 1938: For the first time in his motion picture career, Clark Gable met a fan magazine interviewer who was unable to question him. She was Jane Withers. The youthful motion picture actress, acting as guest columnist for a magazine requested an interview from her favorite star. Upon being introduced to Gable on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Too Hot to Handle” set, the youngster suddenly found herself speechless. A wide smile came over her face and her lips trembled–but try as she would–Jane just couldn’t talk. Clark, noting her embarrassment, immediately took matters into his own hands and put her at ease by conducting his own interview. By the time the interview…
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Gossip Friday: Clark in Calgary
From July 1933: Girls! Girls! Clark Gable may come to Calgary to attend the stampede–but he will accompanied by his wife. Interviewed at the Vancouver hotel last week, Mr. Gable refused to commit himself, but said that there was a possibility of his coming to Calgary. He left the hotel Saturday for an unannounced destination, hinting that it might be Banff and it might be Prince Rupert. Accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. F.N Selman, the party has been travelling by car up the Pacific coast, stopping as long as they wanted in a city and then starting for some other place. At no point would they tell reporters where they…
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Gossip Friday: Everything but Cook
From January 1937: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard visited a phonograph shop not long back, and bought one of those newfangled machines that combine radio, home-recording, loud speaker, and play twenty-four records at a time. Gable watched its performance, then said to the salesman, “That darn thing does everything but cook.” At which Miss Lombard snickered, “You might say the same of me.”
