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Gossip Friday: Clark Gable in Vallejo
From July 1940: In a short but interesting interview with Clark Gable, visiting movie actor, this morning in the lounge of the Casa de Vallejo, quite a few Vallejoans learned just what a real fellow he is. Clark came down to Vallejo this morning from Napa aboard Councilman James Fisher’s yacht and reported an enjoyable trip. He said, “Vallejo looks like a nice place. However, due to my limited time, I will be unable to judge it well.” Leaving about 11 o’clock this morning from the Vallejo Yacht Club aboard Dr. E.J. Casper’s “Junemma,” Mr. Gable hoped for some good fishing in the bay area, as, like golf and hunting,…
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Gossip Friday: Carole Lombard–Mrs. Kanin?
From January 1941: [When Garson Kanin was directing Carole] in “They Knew What They Wanted,” he’d say when he wanted her in a sad mood: “Just imagine you had married me instead of Gable.” [He] says it always worked!
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Carole as Her Own Critic
A brief photo-essay from Life Magazine, September 1940: This episode in the making of a movie is a dramatic moment rarely, if ever, photographed before. The movie is RKO’s version of They Knew What They Wanted, from the play that won Sidney Howard a Pulitzer Prize in 1925. The characters are director Garson Kanin, Actors Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton. For two months they have worked like beavers on what they beleive is to be a great movie script. They have had the usual quarrels. On location at Napa, Calif., 550 miles from home, they have run into the usual location troubles: bad weather, delays, throngs of bothersome autograph hounds.…
