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Gossip Friday: Carole Says Pay Up!
From November 1938: Ever since that ancient Christmas day when Lew Cody tied a holly and red ribbon bedecked cow to Mabel Normand’s front porch, the film colony has had its ribbers and jokers. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, of course, are its ace gagsters. Carole’s latest contribution to humorous Hollywoodiana was made when she had the renewal of her contract with Artist Manager Myron Selznick so adroitly reworded that instead of having to pay him 10 percent of her salary, he was to pay her the same percentage of his daily business. Having signed and filed it, you can imagine the consternation of the astute Selznick when Carole’s attorney…
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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: 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: 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.
