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Gossip Friday: Making an Apperance
From January 1939: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, making their first public appearance since Mrs. Maria Gable announced she planned to sue for divorce, attended a preview last night, smiling broadly as they pushed through the throngs outside the theater. Miss Lombard clung tightly to Gable’s arm as the crowd pressed in. The preview was “Idiot’s Delight,” starring Gable and Norma Shearer.
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Happy Birthday, Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard, that zany blonde actress who happened to marry Clark Gable and was arguably the love of his life, was born 108 years ago today in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Here’s some newspaper blurbs from her birthday over the years her and Clark were together: 1937: Carole Lombard had a birthday. Firecrackers exploded under her chair. There was a rubber spider in her makeup box. Carole ate cotton-stuffed candy. Carole struck a match–it exploded. Carole lit a match –it exploded. Carole sat down–the chair collapsed. Carole shook the salt shaker–it contained sugar. Carole’s wondering if it isn’t a pretty high price to pay to maintain her reputation as moviedom’s leading…
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Rare Carole Lombard Photos
Want to see some rare Carole Lombard photos? Happy to oblige. Here are some I uncovered in vintage scrapbooks. If you follow the site on Facebook, you may have seen some of these already, but who wouldn’t want a second look at the divine Miss Lombard? And sorry about the watermarks, but don’t blame me, blame the people who steal photos that cost me money from my website and don’t give me any credit! How about this amazing color shot? Having some fun on the set of her film “Vigil in the Night.” Hey, she even got a goofy look out of Charles Laughton while filming “They Knew What…
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It’s Carole Lombard Month!
Yes, folks, it’s that time again: Carole Lombard month on DearMrGable.com! Stay tuned for Carole Lombard all month long!
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Gossip Friday: Letter from Movita
From November 1941: Remember Movita, who played in “Mutiny on the Bounty” and who afterwards married Jack Doyle and went to live in England? Clark Gable and Carole Lombard have just received a letter from her. She says she was injured slightly in an air raid last October but that her narrowest escape was more recent–a bomb struck the back of a theater while she and Doyle where on stage.
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Gossip Friday: Hunting in the Homeland
From November 1941: Clark Gable said to be hunting in Ohio. The state conservation division reported today that movie actor Clark Gable was hunting in Henry County. Division officials said Henry County officials, in reporting a shortage of hunting licenses, said that the movie star was one of thousands of out-of-state hunters who had applied for a license.
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{New Article} 1936: Gable Changed?
In this 1936 article, a magazine writer who first met Clark Gable in 1931 goes back to interview him now that he’s had a string of hits and an Oscar. It is always hard for me to temper my enthusiasm in writing of Clark Gable. I happened to do the first interview with him and I may as well be frank and admit that it was done under protest. I had the average man’s prejudice against another man over whom women were raving. And I came away from that interview thoroughly sold on Clark. Women might go for him, but he was typically a man’s man. Several things about this ruggedly…
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Gossip Friday: Weeding It Out
From December 1941: Weeds have so over-run the Clark Gable-Carole Lombard garden, they’re offering cuttings of Tuberose Burdock and Nightblooming Pigweed to friends.
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Gossip Friday: This Calls for a Rewrite
From April 1938: Clark Gable knows now that it pays to be particular about his stories and so he has sent Too Hot to Handle back for a rewriting job. He and Metro Goldwyn Mayer had many a battle over Test Pilot and Clark held it up for eighteen weeks until he knew the story was right. The result is that Test Pilot is breaking records and and has been held over in Hollywood for another week–a thing that rarely happens at the Chinese. His objection, I hear, is that the newsreel cameraman, instead of being the hero we know him to be, is pictured as a faker whose exploits…
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Gossip Friday: Quite the Chicken Rancher
From March 1939: You’ve never heard of a more enthusiastic rancher than Clark Gable. He has bought 1200 chickens to go with the five that Andy Devine gave him as a gag birthday present, also some pheasant and a plow for the mule, Bessie, the gift of Carole Lombard.