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1938: Getting Gay with Gable
By Elizabeth Wilson Screenland, January 1938 What happens when Clark cuts up If it hadn’t been for East’s mild little diamond bid Clark Gable probably never would have hone duck hunting, Claudette Colbert wouldn’t have been invited to Walter Lang’s for dinner, and I would have gone serenely, well, not too serenely, through life without ever knowing what a duck press is. It certainly had unexpected repercussions. Up until then the game had been quite a nice little game, not brilliant, but nice, and South hadn’t yawned more than five times. But when East made that mild little bid in a weak voice it started a bidding duel between East…
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Gossip Friday: Western Garb
From July 1941: It’s kind of cute on Carole Lombard’s part. Because she is so happy living on a ranch, every time someone has a birthday she sends him or her a complete western outfit. Carole and Clark are looking for huge acreage in Northern California. The Fred MacMurrays are interested too. They may buy together and build on adjoining properties. The MacMurrays want to raise citrus fruit. Clark and Carole want to raise among other things, cattle.
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{New Article} The King and I
This new article was syndicated in The America Weekly, which was a Parade-magazine-like insert in newspapers. I actually was very surprised to find this printed in 1957. Clark had a very arms-length relationship with the press. He was usually cooperative but he never let them get TOO close. When they bought the ranch in 1939, Clark and then-wife Carole Lombard immediately instituted an ironclad rule that no pictures were to be taken inside. With the exception of this interview, which I absolutely adore and is as close as we’ll ever get to Clark being on Johnny Carson or the like, Clark’s answers about his personal life were usually guarded. Knowing…
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1957: The King and I
By Kay Gable as told to Liza Wilson The America Weekly, February 10, 1957 Clark Gable’s wife reveals why she was “on pins and needles” before he proposed—and what life is like with the Great Lover My life with Mr. G. began at six o’clock on a beautiful, sunny California morning. It was July 11th, a date I shall never forget, and the year was 1955. Mr. G. arrived at my home in Beverly Hills. We were on our way to be married that afternoon in Minden, Nevada. I had been walking on clouds ever since the King proposed to me some weeks earlier in the rose garden of his ranch…
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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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2014 Year in Review
I think every year I say that it was a busy year around the website, but this year it really was! This year marked the 75th anniversary of Gone with the Wind, and around here we celebrated with a GWTW item every Wednesday– Gone with the Wednesdays: Introducing Gone with the Wednesdays An English Girl as Scarlett? I Was Afraid of Rhett Butler! Photoplay Magazine Makes Their Choice For Rhett The Gift of Rhett Leslie Howard Speaks Scarlett Clark Gives the Latest News on Gone with the Wind Here’s Rhett–You Asked For Him! Is This Scarlett? Clark Gable Reflects Back on Rhett Butler Repost–A Different Ending for Gone with the…
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November Movie of the Month: It Started in Naples (1960)
This month, it’s Clark Gable and Sophia Loren romping around the beautiful Capri scenery in It Started in Naples. Clark is Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer who travels to Rome to settle the estate of his estranged brother who drowned. He is shocked to learn that he has a nephew–an impressionable, unruly eight-year-old boy named Nando (Marietto), who is being cared for by his mother’s sister, Lucia (Loren). At first Mike tries to give Lucia some money and head back to America, but as he gets to know Lucia and Nando, he decides to stick around. Lucia works as a maid and cook during the day and as a nightclub…
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{Ohio} Cadiz, Where Clark Gable was Born
Let’s begin our walk in Clark Gable’s footsteps through Ohio at the beginning, shall we? Cadiz, Ohio is a small town, with no mega-malls, no Starbucks, not even a supermarket–just a Dollar General and a convienence store. It does indeed seem like it’s in the past–I have no doubt that many of the buildings that are there now were there when Clark’s parents moved there. The homes are all older and mostly unassuming, with some Victorians here and there. The most impressive building is the looming city hall, pictured above, that was built in 1894, so Clark’s birth would have been recorded here. Cadiz-ians are quite proud of their hometown…
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It’s Carole Lombard Month! (And some more news)
Well, folks, it’s that time of year again–Carole Lombard Month here on DearMrGable.com! October brings with it Carole’s birthday and a month of Carole-ful joy on the site–articles, photos and Gossip Fridays all about the love of Clark Gable’s life! I have been doing this for several years and fans of the site seem to love it more and more each year. Two other things worth mentioning: 1. I have created a link to the “Nutshell Reviews” of each of Clark’s films that I did earlier in the year. It’s now included in the top menu. 2. I am headed off to the great state of Ohio–aka the birthplace of…
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{New Article} 1961: Clark Gable’s Baby: This is a Story of Faith and Immortality
Sometimes, when I find a new article for the site, I sit down and read it, jot down some notes, and then put it in the pile to type. Other times (often when I’m backlogged!), I don’t read the article until I am actually typing it up. This article is one of those and I must say that while I was typing it I had to stop several times and re-read what I typed, shaking my head, “What the heck is the point of this article?!” I’m still not sure. Kay Gable ignored the advice of her doctor. “Your own heart’s not in such great shape, you know,” he’d said.…