Gossip
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Gossip Friday: Serious Farmers
From May 1941: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are taking their farming more seriously than ever. They’re looking for a ranch in Oregon now.
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Gossip Friday: Laughing Visitor
From June 1941: There is one laugh in Hollywood you can never mistake–Carole Lombard’s. I hear it when I come onto the “Honky Tonk” set at MGM, and sure enough, there is Carole howling at Clark Gable’s get-up for his gambler’s role in the Alaskan melodrama. Unperturbed, Gable takes her by the shoulders and kisses her upon the tip of her nose. “How are you, sweetie pie?” he asks. Director Jack Conway and the roughly dressed actors in the saloon scene look on and grin appreciatively. “Papa,” says Carole, “I hear you really were hamming it up a few minutes ago.” “Yeah,” says Clark. “You could smell the corn clear…
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Gossip Friday: No Buffalo
From January 1942: Solicitous cowboy friends keep sending Carole Lombard buffalo steaks. She hates ’em.
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Gossip Friday: Mittens for Lombard
From January 1942: Mittens will soon be coming of age. One of the smartest innovations in accessories will be seen on the screen, when Carole Lombard wears mittens with sophisticated street clothes. The ever-original Irene has designed several woolen costumes for the glamorous star to wear in Ernst Lubitsch’s “To Be or Not to Be” and, in colors to match, simple little mitts of very fine knitted wool.
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Gossip Friday: Robbed!
From April 23, 1938: Carole Lombard told police today a watch given her by Clark Gable was among $25,000 jewelry stolen from her home.
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Gossip Friday: Making an Apperance
From January 1939: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, making their first public appearance since Mrs. Maria Gable announced she planned to sue for divorce, attended a preview last night, smiling broadly as they pushed through the throngs outside the theater. Miss Lombard clung tightly to Gable’s arm as the crowd pressed in. The preview was “Idiot’s Delight,” starring Gable and Norma Shearer.
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Gossip Friday: Letter from Movita
From November 1941: Remember Movita, who played in “Mutiny on the Bounty” and who afterwards married Jack Doyle and went to live in England? Clark Gable and Carole Lombard have just received a letter from her. She says she was injured slightly in an air raid last October but that her narrowest escape was more recent–a bomb struck the back of a theater while she and Doyle where on stage.
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Gossip Friday: Hunting in the Homeland
From November 1941: Clark Gable said to be hunting in Ohio. The state conservation division reported today that movie actor Clark Gable was hunting in Henry County. Division officials said Henry County officials, in reporting a shortage of hunting licenses, said that the movie star was one of thousands of out-of-state hunters who had applied for a license.
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Gossip Friday: Weeding It Out
From December 1941: Weeds have so over-run the Clark Gable-Carole Lombard garden, they’re offering cuttings of Tuberose Burdock and Nightblooming Pigweed to friends.
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Gossip Friday: This Calls for a Rewrite
From April 1938: Clark Gable knows now that it pays to be particular about his stories and so he has sent Too Hot to Handle back for a rewriting job. He and Metro Goldwyn Mayer had many a battle over Test Pilot and Clark held it up for eighteen weeks until he knew the story was right. The result is that Test Pilot is breaking records and and has been held over in Hollywood for another week–a thing that rarely happens at the Chinese. His objection, I hear, is that the newsreel cameraman, instead of being the hero we know him to be, is pictured as a faker whose exploits…