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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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Happy Birthday, Dear Mr. Gable!
Today is Clark’s 111th birthday. I suppose it is slightly feasible that he could still be alive today…but not very likely! Knowing him and his modest ways, I am sure he would be shocked that anyone in the year 2012 remembers him and his movies. But we all do! Here’s what Clark was doing every 11 years on his birthday: 1912: Living in a house his father built on Mill Street in Hopedale, Ohio, young Clark was in the fifth grade, playing the horn in the school band and thriving under the attention of his beloved stepmother, Jennie Dunlap. 1923: Clark (or as he was called then, “Billy”) was working at…