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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 Brief Divorcee?
From March 1939: Mrs. Clark Gable, who is in Las Vegas awaiting her divorce, may marry as soon as her former husband does. Hal Strotz, the former Mrs. Jay Gould’s widower, flew to Las Vegas to spend the weekend as Mrs. Gable’s guest. He telephones to her every day and, according to her close friends, is devoted to Ria. Her divorce will become final on March 6 and, while there is no official word that she will become Mrs. Strotz, things look serious between her and her admirer.
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Gossip Friday: Two Millionth
From March 1938: Clark Gable affixed his 2,000,000th autograph for “Ducky” Pond, coach of the Yale University football team. The star has kept accurate check on his signatures since asked for his first autograph six years ago as the result of his performance in “A Free Soul.” ___ I really doubt that….
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{New Article} Gable the He-Man Talks!
Here’s a brief article from London’s Daily Mirror in 1936, while Clark Gable was filming San Francisco. Nothing earth shattering here. A man with a very dirty face. A man in a grimy, tattered suit. A queer-looking cove with blood-stains all over him, sitting patiently on a rickety old camp-stool. Don’t look round now, but it’s your old friend, Clark Gable. Want to know what he’s really like? If he’s really and truly the Tall-Dark-and-Handsome he looks on the screen? If he’s really so tough as the pictures make him out to be? I’ll tell you now. Better still, Clark Gable will tell you himself. He said this: “I’ve had…
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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: Mr. Bow Tie
From January 1936: Clark Gable, famous setter of men’s fashions, is introducing a new one or, rather, reviving an old one–bow ties for streetwear. He is wearing long bows with pointed ends in bright stripes. Gable’s first honor on this line was when he made popular the turtlenecked sweater.
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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.
