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Gossip Friday: #1 Leading Lady
From March 1936: The one woman in Hollywood who really is in Clark Gable’s confidence is—guess—May Robson. They have been like mother and son off the screen for several years. Now they are to be a screen family in “Wife vs. Secretary,” and it seems perfectly natural to them.
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{New Article} 1935: This Belongs to You! This Belongs to Me!
Let’s begin our birthday month article-palooza with this one from 1935. The focus here is that Clark wants a personal life and a professional life and he wants them separate! No matter how pleasant the impression you get from the finished picture, it represents work, hard work, not only on the part of the director, cameraman, author, electrician, prop man and many others, but work on the part of the actor. My feeling, therefore, is that we earn our salaries by our work in pictures, and we shouldn’t have to continue working every minute we are away from the studio. Don’t raise your eyes at that remark and say you…
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Birthday Month Updates Coming!
It’s Clark Gable’s birthday month around here! Every year I fill the month of February with lots of new stuff and this year is no exception. I am inundated with articles so I figured it was the perfect opportunity to post them all. So all month long, look out for new articles from various stages of Clark’s life! I also will be putting up pictures from every one of Clark’s films om the site’s Facebook page, so “like” us if you haven’t already!
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Happy Birthday, Clark Gable
Clark Gable would be 114 if he was alive today. Last year, to celebrate his birthday, I complied 113 quotes that others said about Clark. So this year I gathered together 114 quotes from the man himself. So here’s what Clark had to say on a number of topics: 1. “What I want from life is what everyone wants—peace of mind, good health, a share of this world’s goods, friends—companionship. I’m not different from anyone else, for that’s what everyone wants.” (1948) 2. “Just don’t ask me for advice on staying married. I wouldn’t know the secret. I must have learned something about marriage since I went into it the first…
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Gossip Friday: Stop the Gossip
From February 1936: Clark Gable returned to town from another “duck hunt”—and there is a reason for those quotes—and is dashing hither and yon in a very handsome new car. Mrs. Rhea Gable gave a very handsome dinner party on a recent evening, and one of the guests was a Mary Taylor. One of Clark’s late rumored romances was with some one of the same name, and that ought to stymie that. ____ Yeah, probably not.
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Gossip Friday: Strange Accident
From September 1934: There is no accounting for strange accidents. Take what happened to Clark Gable for example. Clark has hunted bears and lions in the most dangerous mountain-lands. He has enacted scores of hazardous stunts for movie cameras. Throughout these experiences, he has never been scathed. But recently, working on a sequence for his new film, an unexpected noise behind him caused Gable to jerk his head around quickly. The twist sprained the muscles of his neck and shoulder, and the pain of the contracted muscles was so great that Clark was rushed to a hospital.
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Remembering Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard Gable died 73 years ago today, at the young age of 33. Her sudden death in a plane crash shocked the nation, stunned Hollywood and devastated her husband. This article that was published a few months after Carole’s death, appears in the Article Archive, What the Loss of Carole Lombard Means to Clark Gable: Gable was working on that fateful afternoon of January 16, 1942. He felt wonderful about it. He’d had five months lay-off since the production of “Honky Tonk,” the longest vacation he’d experienced since his first real click in 1931. It was swell to be back and he liked the new picture. It was…
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Gossip Friday: Leading the Field
From June 1954: Clark Gable and Virginia Grey have resumed their long, long romance. If there is to be a fifth Mrs. Clark Gable this year, the Grey lass seems to be leading the field. There was quite a lot of excitement around when Clark Gable sent flowers to Virginia Grey when she was in the hospital as a result of an automobile accident. Virginia was one of his more serious romances, you know. But nothing happened except that Virginia got well, thank heaven, and Mr. G. went back to his Arizona ranch.
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Hollywood Hobbies
This cartoon appeared in Screenland magazine in 1933: John Barrymore Just as sure as not You’ll find John on his yacht Developing seaworthy legs. And spending his time, Without reason or rhyme, With his rarest collection of eggs. Joan Crawford You cannot ignore, In this group of four, The personal hobby of Joan. She considers it play To model in clay And even to chisel in stone. Norma Shearer If you can’t analyze The charm of her eyes Of the glamorous lure of her tresses– You, at least, should have known That Miss Shearer is prone To designing her very own dresses. Clark Gable Here is…
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Gossip Friday: Be Seeing You, Sugar!
From November 1949: Paulette [Goddard], of course, has found her true love at last, or so she claims, in Clark Gable and this romance, which started with a gag blind date, has flourished so that Paulette didn’t even want to leave for Mexico for a picture commitment. However, when Clark escorted her to the plane in that maroon Rolls Royce,she was loath to kiss him in front of the photographers. All she did when she got to the top of the ramp, was turn to Clark and shout, “Be seeing you, Sugar!” and then disappeared into the plane.