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Gossip Friday: What Can We Do for Laughs?
From March 1936: Carole Lombard, George Cukor, Clark Gable, William Powell, Jean Harlow and several other stars who are paid to amuse you, were gathered about a table recently and it was Lombard who asked: “What can we do for laughs?”
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Gone with the Wednesday: Clark Gable, George Cukor and the Rumor Mill
Ever heard the rumor that Clark Gable got George Cukor fired as the director of Gone with the Wind because George was gay and Clark had such an inflated ego he wanted his own friend Vic Fleming to diret him instead? I hash out the rumor in this post from 2012: Rumor Mill: Clark Gable, George Cukor and Gone with the Wind
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{Rumor Mill} Clark Gable, George Cukor and Gone with the Wind
It’s no secret that Clark Gable didn’t want to be in Gone with the Wind. Despite the public’s insistence that he was the only one who could play Rhett, he had no desire to step into the shoes of the rebellious blockade runner. “The reason I didn’t want to do Gone with the Wind–here is a novel that is the top seller of all time. Now, people form opinions about characters–they formed an opinion that I was going to play it. They already had a preconcieved idea of what they were going to see. That’s why I didn’t want to play, I said too many people know this character. My God, with…