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Gossip Friday: What Can We Do for Laughs?
From March 1936: Carole Lombard, George Cukor, Clark Gable, William Powell, Jean Harlow and several other stars who are paid to amuse you, were gathered about a table recently and it was Lombard who asked: “What can we do for laughs?”
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Gossip Friday: New Difficulties
From June 1936: While rumors persisted that “everything was set but the date” regarding the current romance of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, the screen hero found himself involved in new difficulties with his estranged third wife. His latest marital mix-up came to light when Gable filed suit for recognition of property settlement made with Mrs. Rhea Langham Gable when they separated last fall shortly after the actor returned from a South American vacation.
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Gossip Friday: Difference of Temperament
From June 1936: The possibility of a divorce between Clark Gable and his estranged wife is reported. He has brought a suit against her, demanding that she abide by a property agreement made when they separated in November. Rhea Gable is Clark Gable’s second wife. They met first in New York when he was a struggling young leading man and she was a widow, Mrs. Langham. Tall, slim and dark, Mrs. Gable is several years older than her husband (now 34) and is known as one of Hollywood’s most gracious hostesses. Their separation has up to now been amicable, with both avoiding publicity. No scandal attaches to the separation. Difference…
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{New Article} Marriage is Career Enough
This syndicated newspaper article was published in November 1941, so just two months before Carole Lombard’s untimely death. There was lots of talk before her death of Clark and Carole buying a larger, more commercial farm in Wyoming or Montana. These plans never came to fruition after Carole’s death. Clark never could bring himself to sell their Encino ranch so ultimately it would be the final home for both of them. Marriage is Career Enough by Mayme Ober Peak Being Mrs. Gable More Important Than Film Roles, Says Carole Mrs. Gable is the happiest woman in Hollywood. And Carole Lombard doesn’t give a darn whether she ever makes another picture.…
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Gossip Friday: Rhett the Rooster
From April 1939: That big red rooster which Andy Devine gave Clark Gable has now surpassed every other head of livestock and even Gable as the boss of the Gable ranch in San Fernando Valley. The rooster is a prize fowl and Gable says “he knows it.” He is nearly three feet high. Gable has named him Rhett Butler.
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Gossip Friday: Happy Easter from Carole to Clark
From April 1936: Among Easter gags pulled in Hollywood, don’t forget that Carole Lombard sent Clark Gable a dozen tiny Easter bunnies. All he had to do was find a place to keep them at his hotel. This story combined with the fact that she sent the same star an old Ford for a Valentine present, is making Hollywoodians wonder if there is really something to this friendship that might lead to romance, after all. It’s a lot of effort to plan all these jokes, if nothing but friendship is in back of it.
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Gossip Friday: They’re Not So Much
From June 1936: Not until you have been out with some of the better known screen favorites can you fully appreciate how many imbeciles there are among the fans. One night Carole Lombard and Clark Gable and a few others were ankling along a boulevard when a crowd gathered. Gable and Lombard were surrounded by them, shoved and pushed and otherwise mangled. The both tried to smile and groped for a way out. Their obvious predicament amused the crowd, which responded with happy cracks, which is what usually follows when people are self conscious. Finally one greasy-looking man pushed forward–close to them and shouted: “Hmph. They’re not so much.” He…
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Happy Anniversary, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married 86 years ago today. Desiring privacy, they hopped in the car and motored to the small town of Kingman, Arizona for a quick ceremony, then drove all night back to Los Angeles. They were photographed still in their wedding clothes, beaming at each other, the next morning on the lawn of Carole’s home. The summer after they wed, they moved into the the Encino ranch they had purchased from director Raoul Walsh. The ranch, which would ultimately be the last residence for both of them, was and is an integral part of their love story. Below is a syndicated newspaper article that was…
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Gossip Friday: A Speed War
From May 1936: Out of a “gag” gift from Carole Lombard, Clark Gable is fashioning a gasoline racer in which he plans to show the actress what speed really means on the Muroc Dry Lake. The entire idea had its inception last February 14 when Miss Lombard presented the Metro Goldwyn Mayer star with a broken down car of well-known vintage, painted white with red hearts appropriate for Valentine’s Day. Up until the present time Gable had been too busy before the cameras in the picture, “San Francisco” to do much thinking about what disposal he would make of the heap. But under the hood there now lies a new…
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Gossip Friday: No King and Queen Stuff
From March 23, 1939, Hedda Hopper’s column: Tom Douglas and Rex Evans, former actors, have been decorating like mad–It’s Clark Gable’s new house and it was finished March 17. While the wires are being burned up to find out Clark’s wedding date, when Clark gets a couple of hours off he doesn’t bother about anything but tilling his soil. No king and queen stuff for Clark and Carole, they’ll break the news to all the papers at the same time. ____ Don’t worry, Hedda, they’d be married six days later.
