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{New Article} 1931: Tongue in His Cheek
So. The world shut down for months and of course, I, like everyone else, thought of all the time I would finally have to do things. I will finally type the stack of twenty-five articles on my desk! They will finally be done! Well, here we are three months later and they have not been touched. BUT I painted the hall closet and organized the pantry. More important than typing articles? Probably not but now the Honey Nut Cheerios have their own airtight container. Honey Nut Cheerios aside, here is a 1931 Clark Gable article that is run-of-the-mill for that period, but hey, I typed it! Ramon Navarro says: “I…
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Gossip Friday: Theme Song?
From August 1932: Professor, please strike up “Falling in Love Again!” It’s the Clark Gable theme song! About a week after the missus got back from New York and the Gables decided to let bygones be gone-byes, they tooled off on a second honeymoon. Away to sun-kissed Del Monte for a month, there to golf, fish and ride horsies. No parties–no social fuss. Just Clark and the madame getting together again. And also it gives “What a Man” a chance to recuperate from a bad case of flu which smacked him down not long ago.
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Gossip Friday: Lost and Not Found
From February 1938: Clark Gable has kept in constant touch with the police department of Los Angeles, by the way, ever since his pet pearl-handled revolver was stolen by a prowler. He’d never fired the thing but felt it brought him good luck on his hunting trips. Now, whenever a batch of weapons is brought in to the local sergeant’s desk, Clark goes down and looks it over. It’s a slim hope but he still thinks he may find his missing gun among the captured arsenals.
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Gossip Friday: Envy of Hollywood
From November 1949: The envy of Hollywood is Clark Gable, whose new Ariel Square Four motorcycle just arrived from England. Could it be Clark will ride it down Mexico way to see Paulette Goddard?
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Gossip Friday: Intelligent and Sensitive
From June 1948: On “The Hucksters” set, Clark Gable and Deborah Kerr were going through a scene in the rear of a taxi. Clark looked exceedingly well…. Producer Arthur Hornblow strolled over and [said] what a pleasure it was to work with Clark. “He knows the script inside out weeks in advance and if there is a complaint to be made, he makes it before the picture starts instead of waiting until the day of the scene. And intelligent, sensitive actor,” Mr. Hornblow pronounced him.
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Gossip Friday: What a Contrast
From June 1944: At an Army and Navy dinner dance recently we sat kitty-corner from Captain Clark Gable who had pretty Kay Williams as his girl friend. We thought the two a handsome pair but couldn’t help comparing the quiet, almost demure Kay to the vivid, magnetic Carole. What a contrast.
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Gossip Friday: Very Gray
From 1950: The person this story amuses most is–Clark Gable. It seems before he started “Across the Wide Missouri,” his studio instructed him to let his beard grow. Being a good boy who always does what he’s told, the virile Mr. G. just smiled and tucked away his razor. Finally, they called him into the studio for wardrobe fittings. When they got a gander at that luxuriant face foliage–very fine but very gray–they ordered the makeup department to make with a fast false beard. Clark went happily on his way–to the barber shop.
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Gossip Friday: Legs Gable
From 1954: Just like old times Clark Gable and beautiful, blond Kay Williams are having those laughs again. Favorite playtime place is the golf course of the Bel Air Country Club and you should get a gander of the King wearing those knee-length sox and currently fashionable Bermuda walking shorts! Kay kiddingly calls him, “Legs Gable!”
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Gossip Friday: Quick Escape
From February 1945: Five hundred hysterical, howling females forced Clark Gable to leave a radio station via the fire escape. It was his first public appearance since returning to civilian life. “And flying in a bomber over Europe is supposed to be dangerous,” cracked Clark to the cops who came to his rescue.
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Gossip Friday: No Parking
From 1940: Miss Carole Lombard is having some difficulties with tradesmen around the boulevards because of her unorthodox method of parking her car. If there is no space available at the curb and no parking lot handy, Miss Lombard runs her dashing red roadster ever so delicately up onto the sidewalk and leaves it there until she has concluded her errands in the neighborhood. Cops and tradesmen, perceiving the “C.G.” on the doors and the Clark Gable registration certificate on the steering post, are loath to take drastic measures. But they feel pretty drastic, nonetheless. Miss Lombard is as considerate as she can be when she leaves her car on…
