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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: Paying His Respects
From October 1954: Sentiment found its way into the gaiety and confusion of the premiere of Judy Garland’s long-awaited “A Star is Born” in Hollywood recently with 20,000 fans lining the streets outside the theater. Clark Gable is pictured here as he leaned over Judy’s chair to pay his respects to her. There were big tears in her eyes as she turned away.
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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: Not a Knockout
From June 1936: The famous knockout blow that Clark Gable delivered to his skilled opponent in the prizefight scene for “Cain and Mabel” will be retained in the picture, but will not appear as a knockout. Warners wanted to use it as the end of the 15-round bout in the story, in which Clark co-stars with Marion Davies, but the camera caught the “Round 1” marker above the ring, and there is no way to keep this from showing. As a result, the scenes will appear as a knockdown, and another way will be figured for Gable to score a kayo at the finish of the fight.
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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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Gossip Friday: A Kiss for Paulette
From August 1949, Louella Parsons’ column: When Paulette Goddard flew to Mexico City last night she was put on the plane by Clark Gable, who took her to dinner and sent her on her way complete with corsage and a farewell kiss. Just before Paulette took the plane she signed papers with her attorney, Gregson Bautzer, which enables him to file suit for divorce in Los Angeles. The amazing point of this whole thing is that Paulette has steadily denied to me and all other reporters that she has had any trouble about a property settlement with Burgess Meredith. I happen to know that Burgess never agreed to any settlement…
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Gossip Friday: Don’t Pat Clark Gable on the Back!
From June 1936: Don’t Pat Clark Gable on the Back–He Hates It! Clark Gavle was named recently as one of the three greatest stars of 1936 throughout the world–yet he remains the same Clark Gable. Now he adds to his laurels, with Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy in Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s “Wife Versus Secretary” opening at the Luverne Theatre June 29th. He wears the same hat size that he wore when he was an unknown extra, but there’s a red feather in it today. He still has a passion for turtleneck sweaters, brilliant neckties and old clothes. His favorite relaxation is fooling the willy trout. He can ride a horse…
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Gossip Friday: A Hameroo
From March 1939: Clark Gable’s frequent ribbing of himself has made him just as popular at Selznick as on his home lot, MGM. A good example comes as he makes the scene in “Gone with the Wind” in which he is insulted before a large group of men by Rand Brooks, portraying Charles Hamilton, Scarlett O’Hara’s first husband. “I again must apologize for all my shortcomings.” Then he must turn to Leslie Howard, playing Ashley Wilkes, excuse himself, toss a barbed remark at Brooks and stride from the room. Gable goes through the scenes, struts out and then turns with a laugh and says: “Boy, was that exit a hameroo.…
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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: Bring ’em Back Alive
From March 1938: Barring further rains, Clark Gable is off to Mexico in a few days on a “bring ’em back alive” hunt for mountain lions. Gable’s pals ribbed him quite a bit about the cub he brought back from an earlier expedition, so he is carrying a cameraman along this time to bring back the photographic evidence of the actual capture–if he makes one.
