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Happy Anniversary, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married 86 years ago today. Desiring privacy, they hopped in the car and motored to the small town of Kingman, Arizona for a quick ceremony, then drove all night back to Los Angeles. They were photographed still in their wedding clothes, beaming at each other, the next morning on the lawn of Carole’s home. The summer after they wed, they moved into the the Encino ranch they had purchased from director Raoul Walsh. The ranch, which would ultimately be the last residence for both of them, was and is an integral part of their love story. Below is a syndicated newspaper article that was…
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Happy Anniversary, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard!
Happy Anniversary to Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, married 86 years ago today! Hollywood, March 30 (Associated Press)–Clark Gable bought Carole Lombard’s wedding ring, which he nervously slipped on her finger late yesterday, at about the same time the second Mrs. Gable established her Nevada divorce residence. Gable turned on his million dollar smile (Gee! those teeth!) when a reporter asked him today when he purchased the ring. He glanced at the third Mrs. Gable and replied: “Oh, about a couple of months ago.” Ria Langham Gable went to Las Vegas about two months ago and six weeks later, on March 7, she got her divorce. Carole and Clark returned…
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Gossip Friday: A Speed War
From May 1936: Out of a “gag” gift from Carole Lombard, Clark Gable is fashioning a gasoline racer in which he plans to show the actress what speed really means on the Muroc Dry Lake. The entire idea had its inception last February 14 when Miss Lombard presented the Metro Goldwyn Mayer star with a broken down car of well-known vintage, painted white with red hearts appropriate for Valentine’s Day. Up until the present time Gable had been too busy before the cameras in the picture, “San Francisco” to do much thinking about what disposal he would make of the heap. But under the hood there now lies a new…
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Gossip Friday: No King and Queen Stuff
From March 23, 1939, Hedda Hopper’s column: Tom Douglas and Rex Evans, former actors, have been decorating like mad–It’s Clark Gable’s new house and it was finished March 17. While the wires are being burned up to find out Clark’s wedding date, when Clark gets a couple of hours off he doesn’t bother about anything but tilling his soil. No king and queen stuff for Clark and Carole, they’ll break the news to all the papers at the same time. ____ Don’t worry, Hedda, they’d be married six days later.
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Gossip Friday: A Rush Job
From March 21, 1939: Carole Lombard has hired twenty-four gardeners to complete a rush job on Clark Gable’s Encino estate. Carole’s mother, Mrs. Peters, has put on record her desire for a church wedding, or a ceremony in a private house performed by a preacher.
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Gossip Friday: Something to Talk About
From February 1936: Did you hear about the [valentine] Carole Lombard sent Clark Gable? She had an old Ford painted white, decorated with huge red hearts and ribbon and had it delivered to Mr. Gable’s hotel with her compliments. All this because of the false reports that have been going around town regarding the fact that she was romantically interested in Clark. Carole says she thought she would give the gossips something real to talk about for a change.
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Gossip Friday: A Mangy Mule
From February 1939: Carole Lombard’s surprise birthday present to Clark Gable was a mangy mule. Andy Devine brought five chickens and another friend, a sack of fertilizer.
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Happy Birthday, Clark Gable
Clark Gable was born William Clarke Gable to William and Adeline Gable in Cadiz, Ohio, 124 years ago today, February 1, 1901. He only lived to be 59 and has been dead longer than he lived, but if this website is any indication, he is not forgotten. 85 years ago, when Clark was turning 39, he had quite the memorable birthday. He and his wife of less than one year, Carole Lombard, had taken off on a hunting trip to Mexico. Shortly after, they caused a media frenzy when it was declared that the two stars were MISSING! The Gables’ personal secretary, Jean Garceau, recalled: “The Gables loved to go…
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{New Article} Hollywood’s Happiest Woman
Below is one of Carole Lombard’s final interviews, printed by the Associated Press in the days following her January 16, 1942 death. Hollywood’s Happiest Woman by Mayme Ober Peak Hollywood-Jan. 17–Sitting in her portable dressing room on the set of “To Be or Not To Be,” only seven weeks ago, Carole Lombard told me she was the happiest woman in Hollywood. I remarked that she was making her first picture in more than a year. She nodded, looked at me a little quizzically, and then said, almost sharply, “I don’t care if I never make another picture.” “No matter what career women tell you,” she said, “you cannot find happiness…
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Gossip Friday: A Different Clark Gable
From January 17, 1942: On the screen Clark Gable is a suave, swashbuckling hero. Nothing ever really upsets him. He has ice water in his veins. But today there is a different Clark Gable, a Clark Gable with disheveled hair and reddened eyes, a Clark Gable who looks like a broken man, a Clark Gable who spent the night nervously pacing a floor, and chain-smoking cigarettes, waiting for word about his wife, the beautiful Carole Lombard, in a TWA airliner which crashed in the Nevada mountains. Gable wanted to join the rescue party going to the scene of the wreckage, but policy persuaded him not to.
