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Gossip Friday: A Hollywood Picnic
From June 1937: Cutest party of the month was the picnic–uh huh, picnic time is here!–of Clark Gable (of course!!), Carole Lombard, and Gail Patrick and Gail’s boyfriend, Robert Cobb. They took along a huge picnic basket packed with everything it takes to make a picnic hot. Also (and this IS a Hollywood wrinkle in picnicking!) they took along, in a trailer, two horses–“Pride” and “Sonny,” owned by Clark and Bob. At a ranch near the picnic spot in a canyon, some fifty miles from Hollywood, two more horses were hired for Carole and Gail. Hot spot of the afternoon was the goat-lassoing contest between Gail and Clark. Gail won,…
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{The Brown Derby Restaurant} Part 1: The History
This post is Part One of a series of posts I will be doing regarding Clark Gable’s favorite restaurant in Hollywood, The Brown Derby. The Brown Derby Restaurant was a Hollywood standard. In its heyday, it was as famous and as symbolic of Hollywood as as the Hollywood sign or Grauman’s Chinese Theater. I don’t think I have read a single book on a Hollywood star yet in which the Brown Derby wasn’t mentioned, even in passing. A 1932 article described it as such: The Brown Derby is more than a Hollywood institution. It is not only a place to meet and talk over contracts and plan divorces and further romance under…
