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Gossip Friday: Say What They Will
From April 1936: Say what they will, there appears to be more to the Clark Gable-Carole Lombard romance than they want known. They are together all of the time and it commences to look as though Carole has given up on Robert Riskin, the writer.
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Gossip Friday: Taking a Trip?
From March 1947: Clark Gable is planning to take a three-month flying trip around the world when he finishes his next picture. The actor will start “Angel’s Flight” six weeks after he finishes “The Hucksters,” then he’ll take most of the summer for an air jaunt to distant places. His plan indicates what a lonesome guy Clark has been in recent years since the death of Carole Lombard. ___ Clark never did make a film called “Angel’s Flight”–I have seen that mentioned more than once. Also, he was too traumatized to fly for years after Carole’s death (not including his time in the Army Air Corps). He didn’t take a…
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Gossip Friday: Bereaved and Fishing
From February 6, 1942: Grants River Pas, Ore.–Clark Gable, bereaved film star who wanted to get away from picture people after the sudden death of his wife, blonde Carole Lombard, almost found the canyon of the Illinois river southwest of here a Hollywood meeting place this week. He fished there for steelhead trout Wednesday. The next day, Ginger Rogers and Margaret Sullavan, also vacationing at Ginger’s ranch, tried their luck in the same stream. Gable arrived at his old fishing haunts, We-Ask-U Inn, on Monday, and by local newspaper arrangement his presence was not revealed until he left Friday morning, accompanied by Harry Fleishmann.
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Gossip Friday: Seeking Solace
From January 23, 1942: Clark Gable Plans to Seek Solace in Work Hollywood–Clark Gable, turned from a swashbuckling, carefree prankster into a depressed, grief-stricken recluse by the tragic death of Carole Lombard, will seek solace in work. The fun-loving screen star was so anguished by loss of his beautiful blonde wife that he wanted only to be alone. Shielded by studio executives, Gable has been so alone that friends became alarmed at his depressed brooding. Gable hasn’t yet gone to his Encino ranch where he and Carole lived so fully and joyously. He’s in seclusion at a friend’s home. He has left it only twice since he brought Miss Lombard’s…
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Goodbye, Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard Gable died 84 years ago today, when her plane crashed into Mount Potosi outside Las Vegas. She was 33 years old. 84 years is so hard to believe–if you look at the picture above, it could have been taken yesterday. Something about Carole just transcends her era. From the Associated Press: Millions Knew Carole Hollywood, Jan.17–Millions of Americans are going to miss Carole Lombard on the screen. She was killed in a plane crash early today. But she’ll be especially mourned in Hollywood, where she was universally liked because she debunked with that was artificial or insincere. Carol’s name is spelled C-a-r-o-l-e–that final “e” appeared on the screen…
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Gossip Friday: Fireside Chat with Clark and Carole
From December 31, 1940: Two Hollywood stars have had a lesson in acting that ought to make them much better performers in 1941. I refer to Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. For what reason, I don’t know, they seemed to be visiting the White House Sunday night, and were included in the small group that watched the President broadcast his address to the nation. Comments on the speech did not mention the reactions if Mr. Gable and wife, but whatever they may have thought of the message itself, as professional actors they must have realized they were sitting in the presence of a master performer. It seemed to this listener…
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Gossip Friday: Unorthodox Presents
From December 1938: The gifts Carole Lombard and Clark Gable have exchanged are even more unorthodox. Whoever heard of a woman in love with a man giving him a gun for Christmas! Or a man, crazy about one of the most glamorous, sophisticated and clever women in the land, hanging a petrol scooter on her Christmas tree! For Clark, Carole stopped, almost overnight, being a Hollywood playgirl. People are expected to change when they get married. The necessary adaptation to a new life and another personality shows up in every bride and groom. All Clark and Carole did was strike up a Hollywood twosome. Nobody said “I do!” Clark Gable…
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Gossip Friday: Praise from Lombard
From December 1938: George King Wins Praise of Miss Lombard For Getting Clark Gable to Learn Dancing Ability as Hoofer Was Required For Role in ‘Idiot’s Delight’ HE LOSES WEIGHT by Robbin Coons Hollywood, Dec. 22–From Carole Lombard to George King: Congratulations. Miss Lombard presented the same to Mr. King because he had accomplished (1) what she had been unable to do and (2) what no movie script had been able to do, and (3) what no woman had been able to do. Mr. King, a business-like young man, had made Clark Gable dance. Mr. Gable, for these many years, had gone through life practically without stepping on a dance…
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Gossip Friday: The Waiting Game
From November 1938: Technicalities legal procedure, it appeared today, may prevent Hollywood from hearing Carole Lombard and Clark Gable say “I do” until some time in 1940. The actor’s $286,000 property settlement with his second wife, Maria Langham Gable, has been mutually approved but requires a court’s okay before Mrs. Gable can file suit for divorce. Gable said his wife, from whom he has been separated for three years, would seek a divorce as soon as a ruling is obtained on the legality of the settlement. He did not say he intends to marry the effervescent Lombard, but his friends declared they are sure he will as soon as he…
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Gossip Friday: A Country Style Recipe
From November 1939: Country style recipes rule on the Carole Lombard-Clark Gable ranch. A favorite old-timer is fried apples, quartered, cooked on brown sugar, flavored with a hint of orange or lemon juice. Delicious with country sausage.
