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Gossip Friday: Don’t Worry, Fella
From April 1947: At a preview showing of “Homecoming” in Glendale, Clark Gable, John Hodiak and Anne Baxter were all sitting together. During a love scene between Gable and Anne, a man behind them whispered to his wife: “Gee, Hodiak just sits there and watches Gable make love to his wife.” Hodiak turned around and whispered back, “Don’t worry, fella. I kissed Anne when we got home. And Gable wasn’t there to watch me.”
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Movie of the Week: Homecoming (1948)
This week, Clark Gable is an accomplished surgeon returning home from World War II, Lana Turner is his nurse love interest and Anne Baxter is his fretful wife in Homecoming (1948). Gable is Dr. Ulysses “Lee” Johnson, a successful surgeon with a loving and caring wife, Penny (Baxter). When he volunteers for the Army and heads overseas to fight in World War II, he meets a snappy nurse, Jane “Snapshot” McCall (Turner). At first his stuffy, conservative ways and her free-thinking style clash, but soon they are working well together in crisis and become friends. Penny becomes suspicious of their relationship when Lee mentions her frequently in his letters home.…
