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Gossip Friday: Every Man For Himself
From October 1938: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were at the county fair, minus dark glasses, or any other disguise, and were delighted at getting to the grandstand without a single demand for an autograph. But they reckoned without the man at the microphone, who immediately spotted them and broadcast their presence. From then on, it was every man–and woman–for himself.
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Gossip Friday: Not Inflated Snobs
From January 1940: Judging from the letters pouring in from Atlanta, the down-to-earth good-fellowship displayed by Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, there for the premiere of “Gone with the Wind,” scored as great a hit as the picture. Remembering how often our touring celebrities have made exactly the opposite impression in their contacts with John and Jane Public, I think the Academy ought to vote Clark and Carole a special statuette. By simply being “folks,” they’ve probably done the industry more good than has resulted from any one super-production of the year. It’s significant that, as the praise comes marching back from Georgia, Hollywood wears an expression of astonishment. “Imagine!”…
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Gossip Friday: Gracious and Friendly
From October 1941: There were lots of stories growing out of that visit to South Dakota by Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. But the best one for my money concerns the Sioux Falls people who talked to Clark and Carole in Watertown. Olaf Pederson a Metz baker, and Maxine Dement, his girlfriend, a maid at the W.E. Perrenoud home, were accompanied by another couple as they took a rural school teacher back to Watertown after a visit here. They stopped at a filing station for gasoline. “Well, have you seen Gable and Lombard?” asked the station attendant, just to make conversation. “No,” chorused the Sioux Falls people, “are they in…
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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,…
