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Gossip Friday: Sudden Lapse
From November 1947: Clark Gable and his favorite girl friend, Iris Bynum, had a sudden lapse of romance when their friends began taking the courtship too seriously; always a signal to retreat for the actor. Meantime Mrs. Dolly O’Brien, the Palm Beach matron who interrupted her romance with Clark to marry Jose Dorelis whom she is now divorcing, is back in Hollywood at the moment. At a Santa Barbara party together, Mr. Gable was dancing constant attendance on the fair Dolly. Handsome director Freddy de Cordova, however, finds Iris the dream girl of the moment and seems to be rapidly extinguishing any torch the personable Bynum may be toting.
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Gossip Friday: In Store for 1950
From December 1949: Predictions for 1950. Clark Gable has been a subjective much Hollywood speculation during the past year. Will he marry again? Can he really fall in love again? Well 1950 will be the best year Clark has known since 1938. (which forecast good notices for his new MGM film the Key to the City. ) I love affair which was interesting in 1949 may not be of much potency now, that might mean Paulette Goddard. He’s going to see an old friend in 1950, and that meeting may kindle the fires of the past. I wouldn’t advise marriage, however, before 1951. There’s some confusion in Clarks mind, a…
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Gossip Friday: Typewriter Doctor
From October 1934: Milo Whitlatch doesn’t have to be told that Clark Gable has been to the mountains or beach for a vacation. Whitlatch, typewriter doctor at Gable’s studio, had only to inspect the star’s “portable” when it’s brought in repairs. If Gable has been to the beach, there’s sand in the mechanism. If he has chosen the mountains, there’ll be a pine needle or two stuck away under the keys. If the art of conversation has died, the business of writing letters in longhand has all but perished too among Hollywood’s letter answering stars. Whitlatch attends to 355 typewriters, 200 of them belonging to writers, directors and stars, the…
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Gossip Friday: Quite a Turkey
From January 1940: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard raised their own 25-pound Christmas turkey.
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Gossip Friday: On the Sick List
From January 1940: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are on the sick list–but in a minor way. Carole is merely overtired from the Atlanta junket, and Clark has lost his voice from the same cause. As a matter of record, Clark found the jaunt much less dangerous than he had anticipated. “I had expected to be torn apart,” he said on his arrival back here. “But the people in the South are ladies and gentlemen–they leave you with your pants.”
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Gossip Friday: Still No Queen
From November 1954: Rumor or No: The King hasn’t chosen his Queen! When Clark Gable made a fast trip to the hospital to pick up his old friend Kay Williams Spreckels who had suffered a slight accident, many people jumped to the conclusion that romance was in the air. Actually, Clark maintains friendship of longstanding with Kay, as with Virginia Grey, and if he ever talked of marriage to either, no one says so. Clark, who will be fifty-three on February 1, has confided to intimates that there is only the slimmest chance that he’ll ever wed again. Furthermore, he is not going to dispose of his ranch on Petit…
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Gossip Friday: Experts Agree
From October 1934: Clifton Webb is the most scrupulously fashionable of acting celebrities; he innovated the lapel red carnation and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. popularized the whimsy. Clark Gable, experts agree, did much to bring back the turtleneck sweater which I see here and there among collegiates, and certainly Katharine Hepburn made America jodhpur-conscious.
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Gossip Friday: No Feud in Cargo
From November 1939: For these many weeks, we’ve been reading items and hearing rumors about Clark Gable and Joan Crawford being so angry at each other the chances are against their ever finishing their current costarring picture. So we dropped by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer today on the theory that maybe we’d see Gable get his face slapped by an outraged Miss Crawford. On stage 26 was Miss Crawford in tatters, as if somebody had gone after her with a pitchfork. There also was Gable, dirty, sweaty, greasy–and snarling at his leading lady. “Don’t tap your heart,” she yelled back at him, “it’ll break your finger.” If ever two movie performers were boiling…
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Gossip Friday: Thanksgiving in the Desert
From December 1959: The Thanksgiving holiday and the Polo Matches at Eldorado attracted many visitors to the Palm Desert area. Clark Gable and Kay Spreckles had lunch on the terrace at Shadow Mountain Club while the children played tennis. Hugh O’Brien escorted pretty redheaded Doris Hurley to the Polo Fields. Also on hand for Thanksgiving were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lanz. Mr. Lanz is the creator of Woody Woodpecker and his wife is Woody’s voice. They were guests at the Shadow Terrace in Palm Desert.
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Gossip Friday: I’ve Earned It
From November 1956: Mr. Gable is a partner with Jane Russell and Bob Waterfield in “The King and Four Queens.” We asked how it felt to be a freelance actor after 25 years at MGM. “I make my own mistakes now instead of having someone else make them for me,” Mr. Gable said. “I’m still trying to make a good picture so if I appear in a bad one, it’s my fault. “I left MGM because I didn’t want to be tied down and committed to work at such-and-such a time. I think I have made enough pictures now so that instead of taking one month off, I can take…
