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Gossip Friday: Strangely Related Duos
From August 1936: Strangely related duos in Hollywood. It’s a small world at that. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. Bob Riskin and Julia Lair. Mrs. Gable and Alex Buckman. (Lombard was Riskin’s old girl, Miss Laird is Buckman’s ex-wife, and you know about the Gables.) ____ Riskin, who wrote the screenplay for It Happened One Night, later married Fay Wray in 1942.
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At Separate Tables…
About a year before Cupid struck, Clark and Carole were having a grand time one night at the Trocadero Club—just at different tables. Carole seemed to only have eyes for her date, screenwriter Robert Riskin (he penned It Happened One Night). Meanwhile Clark and Ria were double-dating with Constance Bennett and her beau, Gilbert Roland. One wonders if they stopped by each other’s tables to say hello! While Clark left Ria very soon after this picture was taken, Connie and Gilbert were married in 1941, after being called out for “acting married while being unmarried” in the infamous article that called out Clark and Carole for the same offense: “Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and…
