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Gossip Friday: Begging for More
From April 1942: Clark Gable, for the first time in his life, begging his studio for more and more work to lose his memories in while his friends stand on the sideline proud of the “Moose” for not flying to pieces as they feared.
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Happy Anniversary, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard!
Happy Anniversary to Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, married 87 years ago today! Hollywood, March 30 (Associated Press)–Clark Gable bought Carole Lombard’s wedding ring, which he nervously slipped on her finger late yesterday, at about the same time the second Mrs. Gable established her Nevada divorce residence. Gable turned on his million dollar smile (Gee! those teeth!) when a reporter asked him today when he purchased the ring. He glanced at the third Mrs. Gable and replied: “Oh, about a couple of months ago.” Ria Langham Gable went to Las Vegas about two months ago and six weeks later, on March 7, she got her divorce. Carole and Clark returned…
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Gossip Friday: First Wedding Gift
From May 1940: The first wedding present received by newlyweds Clark Gable and Carole Lombard was a 10-foot camellia bush from from Clark’s make-up man, Stanley Campbell.
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Gossip Friday: Quite a Pair
From February 1937: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are quite a pair. The colony never knows what they are going to do next. Best thing about it, neither do they. Clark now has a new station wagon–and is conveying the fair Lombard about. Saturday night when it drew up at the entrance of the Coconut Grove, the doorman hastened out to inform them that all deliveries were made at the back entrance–but before he could do so, out stepped Gable in white tie, tails and top hat, with Lombard in chiffon and ermine. The astonished attendant recovered his composure and directed the attendant to park it along with the limousines…
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Gossip Friday: Say What They Will
From April 1936: Say what they will, there appears to be more to the Clark Gable-Carole Lombard romance than they want known. They are together all of the time and it commences to look as though Carole has given up on Robert Riskin, the writer.
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Gossip Friday: Taking a Trip?
From March 1947: Clark Gable is planning to take a three-month flying trip around the world when he finishes his next picture. The actor will start “Angel’s Flight” six weeks after he finishes “The Hucksters,” then he’ll take most of the summer for an air jaunt to distant places. His plan indicates what a lonesome guy Clark has been in recent years since the death of Carole Lombard. ___ Clark never did make a film called “Angel’s Flight”–I have seen that mentioned more than once. Also, he was too traumatized to fly for years after Carole’s death (not including his time in the Army Air Corps). He didn’t take a…
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Gossip Friday: Why Not Paul?
From February 1948, Jimmie Fidler’s column: I can’t help feeling irked when I read that Clark Gable, who will star in the screen version of “Command Decision,” is going to New York to study the stage performance of Paul Kelly. I have no brief against Gable; quite the contrary, I regard him as one of the most capable actors in Hollywood. But why not let Paul Kelly play the role on the screen which he’s created on the stage? Kelly is a Hollywood veteran; a great actor and a swell guy who’s had more buffets from Lady Luck than should fall to the lot of any one man. In “Command…
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Gossip Friday: Not With His Shoes On
From February 1937: Burly Clark Gable can’t make love with his shoes on, it appeared as the pride of Cadiz, Ohio, washed up amatory work in “Parnell” with Myrna Loy. Half-a-dozen times Gable assumed parlor wrestling position No.1 on a brocade sofa and went into his routine. But it was no go, Ken Stahl cutting the take before it got its second wind. The great lover at length kicked off his shiny, patent-leather shoes, and, taking a firm toehold on a bear-skin rug, gave off a perfect scene. Loy, to promote passion, contented herself with shredding a handkerchief and sniffing softly while an off-key phonograph bleated Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.”
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Gossip Friday: Ailing
From February 1948: Clark Gable’s back in town after baking out that ailing leg in Tucson, Ariz. He’s still walking with a limp, and his next film, “Angel’s Flight,” won’t go into production for another two months.
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Gossip Friday: Bereaved and Fishing
From February 6, 1942: Grants River Pas, Ore.–Clark Gable, bereaved film star who wanted to get away from picture people after the sudden death of his wife, blonde Carole Lombard, almost found the canyon of the Illinois river southwest of here a Hollywood meeting place this week. He fished there for steelhead trout Wednesday. The next day, Ginger Rogers and Margaret Sullavan, also vacationing at Ginger’s ranch, tried their luck in the same stream. Gable arrived at his old fishing haunts, We-Ask-U Inn, on Monday, and by local newspaper arrangement his presence was not revealed until he left Friday morning, accompanied by Harry Fleishmann.
