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Gossip Friday: Ranch Life
From July 1940: Gable Considers Ranch Life Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, who have 20 acres in fruit trees near Hollywood, are going into ranching in a big way. They returned from Prescott, Ariz. carrying a 30-day option on a tract of 48,000 acres, which Mr. Gable this week said he would purchase, If so, he will stock it with thoroughbred cattle and point to it as a retirement site when he and Carole decide to quit pictures–which many believe may come much sooner than the expiration of Clark’s contract in 1945. ___ Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned.
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Gossip Friday: The Gift of Trees
From June 1939: Mrs. Helen Stuart Sends Prize Trees to New Gable Home Two prize elm trees which will stand on the grounds of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Gable’s new home in Bel-Air are the gift of Mrs. Helen Kimberly Stuart of Neenah, WI to Mr. Gable and and his recent bride, Carole Lombard. Mrs. Stuart, whose aunt is Miss Lombard’s grandmother, is called Aunt Nell by the actress. Jack and James Kimberly of Neenah are also distant relatives of the new Mrs. Gable, as their grandmother was a sister of Mrs. Gable’s grandmother. The elm trees which Mrs. Stuart sent to the newlyweds are offspring of the tree under…
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Happy Anniversary, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married 84 years ago today, March 29, 1939, in Kingman, Arizona. It was Clark’s third marriage and her second. Clark was hard at work on a little film called Gone with the Wind at the time. Carole had been known as the “Queen of Screwball” for her zany comedies like Nothing Sacred, My Man Godfrey, True Confession and The Princess Comes Across. After she married Clark, she changed course and decided she wanted to try her hand at drama. Desperate to have a baby, she slowed down her work load and only made six films from 1939 until her untimely death in January 1942.…
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Gossip Friday: Open Season
From October 1941: Carole Lombard went gunning today, not only for birds with feathers on ’em, but also for the radio oracles who claim she’s about to divorce Clark Gable, or die, or both. Miss Lombard will get the ducks when the seasons starts Thursday. On the gossipers she has declared open season. They’re causing her phone to ring so much she’s not getting enough sleep. Last week Miss Lombard and Gable were near Watertown, S.D., hunting pheasants. They went to their cabin after a day’s tramp through the fields and turned on the radio. “And there I was at home in Hollywood in bed, according to the man, about…
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Gossip Friday: Ten Years Later
From March 1941: This is anniversary week for Clark Gable. It marks his tenth year as a recognized screen performer. And he’s celebrating it in the true Gable manner–by doing absolutely nothing about it. Where will Gable be ten years hence? Some say Clark will be directing pictures. Our guess is he’ll be well out of movies and living the life of a rancher on some 50,000-acres (or larger) place in Arizona. He’s fed up on the glitter and tinsel and gossip of Hollywood–has been for a long time. And once he gets away they’ll never drag him back–not even for that proposed sequel to “Gone with the Wind.” Our…
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Gossip Friday: Hammy Hawk Island
From July 1941: Carole Lombard never misses a chance for a laugh on husband Clark Gable, and Henry O’Neill provided her with an opportunity to howl when she visited the set of “Honky Tonk.” From his scrapbook, O’Neill brought out an old theatrical handbill, dated Sept. 17, 1929. It was advertising a play, “Hawk Island,” opening at the Longacre Theater of Hartford, Conn. On the front of the handbill was a picture of the play’s most exciting scene. Standing behind a desk with one hand raised dramatically and the other pointing a gun at the rest of the cast, including O’Neill, was none other than Mr. Gable. Despite his “hammy”…
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Gossip Friday: If You’re Going to the Gables for Dinner…
From April 1941: If Carole Lombard calls you on the phone and tells you that she and Clark Gable would like to have you come up to their San Fernando ranch for dinner, by all means don’t get yourself gussied up. When the Gables are at home, informality is the law. Clark likes to loaf around in gray slacks without any semblance of a press. Carole, while always smartly dressed, still gets a kick out of being garbed like a rancher’s wife. Don’t tell Clark he is a great actor. He’ll think you’re kidding him. Do Suggest seeing his newest car. He’s like a little boy about automobiles and personally…
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Gossip Friday: Patched Up Their Quarrel
From October 1936: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard decided to patch up their quarrel for the sake of the joint box they owned for last week’s Pacific southwest tennis tournament. Another interested observer at the matches was Mrs. Rhea Gable, who spent most of the time looking sadly at the husband from whom she is separated, and his blonde companion.
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Gossip Friday: Snooty Star
From May 1937: Carole Lombard is called a Snooty Star because she won’t give interviews about her romance with Clark Gable. But after all, Mr. Gable, though separated from his former wife for a long time, is not divorced., so it would be very bad taste indeed for Carole to shoot off her mouth. She won’t do it, and rightly so.
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Gossip Friday: Have a Seat
From October 1937: As soon as he can get away from work every afternoon Clark Gable drives over from Metro and seats himself on the floor in Carole’s dressing room with a cheese sandwich in one hand and a can of beer in the other.
