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{New Article} The Great Gable Part 1
This is part one of a series of articles that were written for the New York Daily News. Apparently Clark Gable gave them a few quotes, they interviewed some of his friends, were all ready to go to print and then came the surprising news that Clark had eloped with Kay Williams the day before. So they had to squeeze that into the articles as well. It is hard to find anybody who doesn’t like Gable—even among his ex-wives and girlfriends, practically a small army in themselves. Even Lady Sylvia Ashley, Wife No. 4 whom Gable eventually locked out of his California ranch, has admitted, grudgingly, that Gable is quite…
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Gossip Friday: Four Million and One
From September 1954: Four million of Holland’s 10 million inhabitants ride bicycles. Clark Gable recently made it four million and one. Long known as a motorcycle fan, Gable keeps half a dozen of the speed machines at his Encino ranch. When he traveled to Holland with Lana Turner and Victor Mature, for the filming of the new drama, “Betrayed,” he had a special bicycle designed for him by a Dutch manufacturer. Between scenes of “Betrayed,” Dutch citizens became used to seeing the star motor-bike on the paths along the canals in his “Gable special.” “Betrayed,” co-starring Lana Turner and Victor Mature, will open Thursday at Loew’s State. In the film,…
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Gossip Friday: What to Do About the Doves
From December 1958: What will the Democrats do about the doves? This question threatens to make a long winter long for California sportsmen and conservationists as they await the start of the Democrat-controlled state legislature in January. The cause of their concern: A pending bill which would spare doves from hunters and place them on the list of protected songbirds in California…. An avid sportsman, film star Clark Gable fired off a firm letter aiming to pump the bill full of buckshot. Gable said he would “like to go on record as definitely opposing this or any other bill which would prohibit dove shooting in California.”
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Gossip Friday: Early Out
From February 1936: One of the nicest parties of the year was given by Pansy and Nicholas Schenck at Joseph Schenck’s palatial home; many of the guests came on from the Lewis Milestone cocktail party which was a gay and happy affair; after a week of unprecedented gaiety you might think the Schenck party would suffer, but with a good orchestra, grand food and conversation, most of the guests stayed on and on. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable left early because they are working and had to be on the set early; Louis B. Mayer did some fancy dancing with Hope Lighton; Marion Davies stunning in black; Mrs. Jack Warner…
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Gossip Friday: With Garlic, No Less
From August 1937: When Carole Lombard and Clark Gable dine out they go for porterhouse steaks with garlic.
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Gossip Friday: Too Tame
From August 1937: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable seem to have run out of practical jokes to play on one another. They became very circumspect and sent Louis B. Mayer a huge birthday cake with “Happy Birthday” spelled across the top in gardenias and green leaves, but they admit this didn’t run true to form and was unworthy of them. “Too tame,” remarked Carole to one of her friends.
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Gossip Friday: Out of Office
From June 1936: Clark Gable of the films is on his vacation, but where no one seems to know. He told his studio last week he might go to Utah to hunt but didn’t specify what portion of the state. He is not expected to have another film assignment for about a month.
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Gossip Friday: Ailing Carole
From July 1939: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable really must have found the privacy they wanted on the ranch. She’s been ill for a week with an appendix attack and Hollywood did not find it out until the other day. There’ll be no operation for the present, Carole says, but the doctor will have to okay any vacation plans. Carole finished “Memory of Love” two weeks ago at RKO. Clark winds up in “GWTW” any minute. ___ “Memory of Love” was re-titled as “In Name Only” and co-starred Cary Grant. It is widely speculated that Carole in fact had suffered a miscarriage at this time, not appendicitis.
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Gossip Friday: Striking
Of the many beauties in Hollywood there are few who excel Clark Gable’s wife Kay. Gable and the beautiful Kay attended the premiere of “Giant” and she, dressed all in white and wearing emeralds, was one of the most striking women there.
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Gossip Friday: Clark Gable Takes a Bride
Seventy years ago today, on July 11,1955, Clark Gable married Kay Williams Spreckels in Minden, Nevada. July 12, 1955: Clark Gable, 54-year-old screen veteran, and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, actress and former wife of California sugar heir Adolph Spreckels II, were married Monday in a surprise double-ring ceremony. It was Gable’s fifth marriage, Miss Williams’ third. The ceremony in the home of Justice of the Peace G. Walter Fisher claimed an on-again, off-again romance that has linked their names in gossip columns for about 10 years. Gable, appearing very formal in a dark blue suit, and his bride, wearing a chic tan suit, were uncommunicative before and after the ceremony.…
