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Gossip Friday: Better Think Twice
From March 1936: The next time Carole Lombard goes to give anybody a dog, she’ll think twice. The day after she bought a dachshund for Walter Lang, he left for the Orient and deposited the pooch with Carole. Now she has to cart it around the studio with her own two mutts. To make it worse, there is bad blood between Lang’s dachshund and Carole’s Pekingese, “Pushface.”
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{Photos} No Man of Her Own (1932)
Here’s some pictures from this week’s movie, No Man of Her Own (1932). The portraits from this film are stunning. Although Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were not supposedly romantically involved at the time, the still camera sure did capture a lot of their heat! I think it knew something they didn’t… There’s a few publicity shots of Clark and Carole with Dorothy Mackaill looming strangely over them. And there’s this one, which looks like Clark is about to strangle Carole. On the last day of shooting, notorious prankster Carole gave Clark a ham with his face pasted on it. In return, Clark gave Carole a giant pair of shoes,…
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{In The News} 1941: Anything for a Laugh
Here’s a little newspaper piece that was too long to be considered a “Gossip Friday” but not quite long enough to be considered a full article really. It goes on for a while at first talking about a man named Vince Barnett, who was “the undisputed top ribber of the movie industry. He has made a career out of being a professional insulter.” From December 1941: The only time Barnett ever got socked was at a party Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gave, with Clark Gable in mind as the victim. Gable was just too quick for them. Barnett was there, this time in the guise of a French film producer. He…
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Movie of the Week: No Man of Her Own (1932)
Well, it being Carole Lombard Month and all, naturally our first Movie of the Week for October is Clark Gable and Carole Lombard’s one and only film together, No Man of Her Own (1932). Gable is Jerry “Babe” Stewart, a crooked card shark on the run from a police investigator when he stops in on the sleepy small town of Glendale. There he meets the bored town librarian, Connie Randall (Lombard) who is just waiting for something exciting to happen to her. “Sometimes I go out in the woods and scream.” She says dryly. And declares the most exciting thing to happen in Glendale recently is that the drug store…
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It’s Carole Lombard Month!
Starting tomorrow, October 1, it is Carole Lombard Month here on DearMrGable.com! Carole Lombard Month comes around annually every October to celebrate Carole’s birthday. So hang around for Carole-related articles and photos. And all the “Movie of the Week”s will be Carole-related. Any guesses what the first one will be? Hmmm…
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Gossip Friday: Carole Out, Jean In
From October 1936: Carole Lombard in a screen romance with Clark Gable–would that spell box office? I am asking you. Either one of these two alone is sufficient to lure the customers into the theater, but the two of them together would bring in enough shekels to pay the rent and keep the wolf far, far away. That is why, come next year, Carole will be co-starred with Clark in “Saratoga.” Yes, I know it was intended for Joan Crawford, but I am told there are other plans for La Crawford. When Carole finishes “Morning, Noon and Night” for Paramount she’ll move to Metro for this one picture. And that…
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Gossip Friday: Off the Hinges
From December 1939: Carole Lombard visited the set of the untitled Clark Gable-Joan Crawford picture when some of the early scenes of his escape from a Guinea prison were being filmed. One brief shot showed him running down a corridor and through a door which slammed behind him. But Gable did it so violently that an end section of wall, presumably made of stone, rocked dangerously, and a hinge was torn from the door. Whooped Miss Lombard: “He’s just like that at home!”
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Gossip Friday: Appearing Together
From February 1937: Film fans who plan to attend the Shrine flood relief benefit Wednesday night in the Shrine Auditorium were assured last night that they will see Clark Gable and that Carole Lombard will be with him. Miss Lombard last night signified her intention to accompany Gable to the benefit. Bob Burns is taking his bazooka. Eleanor Powell and Bill Robinson will dance. Sophie Tucker will sing. Warner Baxter, Edward Arnold and May Robson are signed for appearances. Stars who previously have volunteered their services include Harold Lloyd, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Benny and Mary Livingston and Bing Crosby and Stoll’s orchestra. Tickets are on sale at…
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Gossip Friday: Storks Flying West?
From December 1939: The movie colony is as excited as a couple of maiden aunts over the persistent rumor that both Carole Lombard and Barbara Stanwyck are expecting babies. There’s no denying that Miss Lombard isn’t herself on the set these days. More than once she has displayed a Victorian fragility quite uncommon to her usual vivacious character by fainting during the filming of “Vigil in the Night.” For future father Clark Gable there may be some vigils in the night yet to come. Miss Stanwyck has been cancelling her picture engagements and now has no future commitments. Enjoying this period of inactivity with her is handsome husband Bob Taylor.…
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Gossip Friday: April Fool!
From April 1, 1939: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard today denied any marriage plans and said that they are “just good friends.” “It was merely a publicity stunt from the beginning,” chuckled Miss Lombard. “Why, I am young enough to be Mr. Gable’s sister! He is really engaged to May Robson, and I have consented to marry Mr. Jasper Jitterwhisk, a tap drummer. Mr. Gable is returning all my presents except Bessie, the mule, which he needs for his spring plowing.” APRIL FOOL! ___ That was really printed in the paper as an April Fools joke, along with other gems like “After changing his director, scene artist, cameraman and several…