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Gossip Friday: They’ll Be Back
From January 1958: Clark Gable and his Kay left today on a Caribbean cruise, but they’ll be back here for the Academy Awards and the world premiere of “Teacher’s Pet” the last of March.
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Gossip Friday: He’s Had Lots of Practice
From August 1956: Sight of the week: Clark Gable carrying wife Kay up the forty steps to Sam Goldwyn’s studio projection room, to show her the rough cut of his “King and Four Queens.” Clark had lots of practice carrying the fair sex–to wit–Vivien Leigh up the grand staircase in “Gone with the Wind.”
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Gossip Friday: Part of His Duties
From May 1957: Clark Gable’s wife, Kay, who seldom visits the studio, dropped onto the “Teacher’s Pet” set to watch Clark and Doris Day emote. “They’ll do a love scene next,” she was told. “That’s part of Clark’s duties,” she laughed.
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{New Article} The Great Gable Part 2
Here is part 2 of The New York Daily News’ “Great Gable” series. A rather disjointed piece, swinging from Clark’s recent marriage to Kay Williams, his reputation as aloof and lonely, and the failure of his post-war films to catch on with audiences. Paradoxically, Gable, while fundamentally a lone wolf, is a friendly man, with a lively interest in others. During all the years he was King of MGM, the legend of Clark Gable’s inaccessibility grew to the point where he became widely regarded as a male Garbo. Affably aloof was the way reporters most often described him. And when one gained a rare interview with the celebrated star, it…
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{New Article} The Great Gable Part 1
This is part one of a series of articles that were written for the New York Daily News. Apparently Clark Gable gave them a few quotes, they interviewed some of his friends, were all ready to go to print and then came the surprising news that Clark had eloped with Kay Williams the day before. So they had to squeeze that into the articles as well. It is hard to find anybody who doesn’t like Gable—even among his ex-wives and girlfriends, practically a small army in themselves. Even Lady Sylvia Ashley, Wife No. 4 whom Gable eventually locked out of his California ranch, has admitted, grudgingly, that Gable is quite…
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Gossip Friday: Striking
Of the many beauties in Hollywood there are few who excel Clark Gable’s wife Kay. Gable and the beautiful Kay attended the premiere of “Giant” and she, dressed all in white and wearing emeralds, was one of the most striking women there.
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Gossip Friday: Clark Gable Takes a Bride
Seventy years ago today, on July 11,1955, Clark Gable married Kay Williams Spreckels in Minden, Nevada. July 12, 1955: Clark Gable, 54-year-old screen veteran, and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, actress and former wife of California sugar heir Adolph Spreckels II, were married Monday in a surprise double-ring ceremony. It was Gable’s fifth marriage, Miss Williams’ third. The ceremony in the home of Justice of the Peace G. Walter Fisher claimed an on-again, off-again romance that has linked their names in gossip columns for about 10 years. Gable, appearing very formal in a dark blue suit, and his bride, wearing a chic tan suit, were uncommunicative before and after the ceremony.…
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Gossip Friday: Got Their Limit
From December 1958: Kay and Clark Gable got their limit of quail at Catalina. Last year Clark gifted her with long cashmere underwear. She said: “He taught me to shoot. I’m one of the few wives of his gun club who goes along. When I listened to men talking about hunting in the Stork Club, I used to shudder. Now you can have the Stork Club, I’ll take hunting. We looked like Mexican bean pickers after we’d picked up our birds.”
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Gossip Friday: No Marriage
From January 1955 (Louella Parsons): A rumor from several sources today had Clark Gable and Kay Williams Spreckels, ex-wife of multi-millionaire Adolph Spreckels, in an elopement. A telephone call to the Gable home in the San Fernando Valley brought the information that Gable was week-ending at the ranch home of a friend and that he and Mrs. Spreckels were expected home for dinner. When questioned about a marriage, the servant who answered the phone said: “As far as I know, there isn’t any marriage.” A few days before Christmas, Mrs. Spreckels stopped at my house and when I asked if she and “The King,” as the popular Gable is known,…
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Gossip Friday: Memories of Clark Gable
From January 1961, (Sara Hamilton, Photoplay magazine’s gossip columnist): Hollywood without Clark Gable will never be the same. There never was and never will be anyone to take his place. With his passing an era is over, never to return. I can still see him standing on the porch of his Encino home, brown tweed jacket over his broad shoulders, looking more the hero of a romantic novel than he ever did on the screen. I remember the evening he said, with mock seriousness, “Now Sara, here’s $30. We’re going to The Dunes, outside Palm Springs, for a little gambling and I expect you to make us both a fortune,”…
