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Gossip Friday: Up to Four
From October 1936: One of the gifts that Clark Gable gave Carole Lombard for her birthday was a thoroughbred cocker spaniel. This brings Carole’s dogs up to four.
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Gossip Friday: Dwindling Gift
From January 1937: Carole Lombard, high prankster of Hollywood, was on the other end of the gagging when she had a birthday party recently. Instead of elaborate gifts, all her pals got together and sent her the most amazing things! Honest, I can’t tell some of them. But I can tell you what Clark Gable sent—a huge package, elaborately packed and wrapped. Carole, aflutter, unwrapped and untied and untied and unwrapped Clark’s gift. It dwindled and dwindled. And finally, she found a ten-cent-store pop gun! But Clark made up for it. Later, he sent her his real birthday gift—a jeweled bracelet, and a cocker spaniel.
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Gossip Friday: Morose and Cynical
From September 1936: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard have discovered their temperaments differ too widely to allow of friendship. Incidentally, most of Clark’s friends have remarked that, since the separation from his second wife, he has been exceedingly morose and cynical.
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Gossip Friday: Interested Observers
From September 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: Jiminy Cripes
From September 1941: Rumors spring out of nowhere in Hollywood and traverse the town’s grapevine routes like wildfire. A report that Gable and Carole Lombard were splitting up had the town on its ears one day last week. Gable, it was said, had quit home and gone to live with George Raft. After MGM’s phones buzzed for hours with queries, the matter was put squarely up to Gable. “Jiminy Cripes,” he said, using much stronger language than that, “what have I done to get this? I don’t even know George Raft.”
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Gossip Friday: A Good Critic
From July 1936: The big show at a Hollywood Boulevard movie house the other evening was for that group of people who sat behind Clark Gable and Carole Lombard at a showing of “San Francisco.” But Gable’s conversation about the picture he’s in didn’t go unnoticed. He’d made a good movie critic.
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Gossip Friday: Belated Honeymoon
From July 1939: The only people, apparently, who don’t know where Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are going to spend their belated honeymoon are Mr. and Mrs. Gable. Gable admitted that he and Mrs. Gable have discussed a motor trip through Europe (Gable has never been abroad)), Alaska, the Panama Canal and South America. “We haven’t gotten around to Africa yet,” grinned Gable, “or Niagara Falls.” But with Metro Goldwyn Mayer speeding work up on “The Great Canadian,” to follow “Gone with the Wind,” the chances are that the Gables will spend their honeymoon in Hollywood. ___ “The Great Canadian” wasn’t made, with or without Gable. And unfortunately, Clark and…
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Gossip Friday: Number One Guest
From July 31, 1938: Clark Gable is the nation’s Number One guest. Name any kind of a beauty contest, rodeo, festival, benefit or fraternal clam bake and the chances are 10 to 1 Gable has been invited to attend it. Ten percent of the Gable fan mail consists of invitations–conventions, personal appearances, cornerstone layings, graduation ceremonies, banquets and purely social events. It runs a close second to the 12 percent who won’t believe he prefers Carole Lombard to them–and daintily offer their hand and heart in marriage.
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Gossip Friday: You Beat Us
From June 1940: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are confirming the baby item to close friends. They sent one pair of new parents a congratulatory wire saying: “Nice going, you beat us but not by much. ___ Sadly, not true.
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Gossip Friday: Don’t Got Milk
From July 1940: I hate to tell this on Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, nor does it seem possible, but when they built their barn, they bought a cow, which turned out to be a heifer (ingenue to you). Never having had a calf, it couldn’t give milk. Carole learned the truth, and exchanged it for a cow. Then they bought everything that Goes into a first-class commercial dairy, so they would have fresh milk daily.
