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Gossip Friday: Brand New Duds
From November 1939: Fashion and local industry note: Out in Hollywood Clark Gable is sporting a brand new, fringed buckskin jacket made for him by Carl Scherer, Minneapolis Taxidermist. So pleased about it is Clark that he’s just ordered a whole suit of the same. Incidentally, Carole Lombard has also done a bit of shopping in town (by mail). She bought a whole flock of duck decoys from Le Boutin and Leo’s already had two reorders on them. Thought: Perhaps we’re overlooking this Hollywood market.
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Gossip Friday: Everything but Cook
From January 1937: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard visited a phonograph shop not long back, and bought one of those newfangled machines that combine radio, home-recording, loud speaker, and play twenty-four records at a time. Gable watched its performance, then said to the salesman, “That darn thing does everything but cook.” At which Miss Lombard snickered, “You might say the same of me.”
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{New Article} 1940: Joe Lucky
This 1940 article was in The Saturday Evening Post, whom I’m guessing paid their journalists per word because all their articles are so very bloated. This one is 5,838 words, but who’s counting. Me, the one who typed it, I am the one counting. Anyway. This article is supposed to be about how lucky Clark is and that’s why he is a success. But yet it goes into a rather pointless meandering tale of Clark’s early years working in the oil fields, the lumber camps, as a small time theatre actor–a lot of hard, broke times that eventually led to success. At least the author did indeed interview Clark, so…
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Gossip Friday: His Own 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 make a good movie critic.
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Gossip Friday: Sound Your Siren
From January 1940: The boys play too rough on Clark Gable’s sets, Carole Lombard discovered. She visited her husband on the sound stage where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Strange Cargo” was in production, in time to see Gable watching with great amusement while Lou Smith, his stand-in, and Stanley Campbell, his make-up man, reenacted the fight that is staged by Gable and Albert Dekker for the film. Neither of the combatants saw Miss Lombard until Smith suddenly ducked and Campbell landed a haymaker on Miss Lombard’s cheek. The two retired in great confusion and amid profound apologies, while Gable grinningly warned his wife that “next time you step into this gymnasium, you better…
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Gossip Friday: Meet Sonny
From November 1941: Those baby rumors swarming around Clark Gable and Carole Lombard finally paid off–in a way. Carole just bought a colt which she presented to Clark and named Sonny.
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Gossip Friday: Besieged
From September 1941: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard Besieged by Film Fans Here Actor-Couple Signs 150 Autographs Before Hiding in Hotel; On Way to Hunt in Canada Albuquerque, New Mexico–Two old hunting pals spent a few hours in Albuquerque Monday, after their eastbound plane was grounded by bad weather–and Alvarado Hotel employees were almost swamped by a rush of autograph seekers. The reasons: one of the hunters is Clark Gable, motion picture star, who was accompanied by his wife, Carole Lombard of the screen. Gable’s hunting pal is H.H. Fleishman, of MGM Studios, who also was accompanied by his wife. The party was on its way by air to Manitoba, Canada,…
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Gossip Friday: Strange Quartet
From November 1938: A strangely assorted quartet that meets once or twice a week in the valley for rounds of bridge or badminton is composed of Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Mr. and Mrs. Andy Devine. The Devines have many other intimates, but Gable and Lombard keep much to themselves. When they do step out socially, it is invariably over to Andy’s ranch.
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Gossip Friday: Regular Patrons
From March 1937: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are regular patrons [of the drive-in theater] and, to avoid possibility of detection and annoyance, the two sometimes come in the battered old Ford which Carole gave Clark a year ago.
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Gossip Friday: Patched Up
From September 1936: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard decided t 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.
