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What’s Coming Up in February and Vote Now to Win a Gable DVD!
February is a special month here on DearMrGable.com–February 1st marks Clark Gable’s birthday! I post something new to the website every single day in February and this year will be no exception. This year will have a schedule, though: Sundays: Random! Mondays: New Article in the Article Archive Tuesdays: New Photo Blog Entry Wednesdays: New Photos in the Gallery Thursdays: New Article in the Article Archive Fridays: New Gossip Friday Saturdays: New Blog Post–Dissecting Gable Rumors In addition, I am going to let all you Gable fans select the Movie of the Month for February! Cast your vote below, on the website Facebook page, or email me. Your vote equals…
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2011 in Review
Well, another year is coming to an end and a new one is beginning. Hard to believe in 2012 will be this website will be three years old! 2011 was an exciting year for DearMrGable.com: Over forty new articles added to the Article Archive Thousands of pictures added to the gallery–it now holds over 10,000 pictures! The one year anniversary of this site’s Facebook page–I cherish all the Gable fans I have met through Facebook! The following films were featured as Movie of the Month in 2011: January: Hold Your Man (1933) February: China Seas (1935) March: Saratoga (1937) April: Band of Angels (1957) May: Idiot’s Delight (1939) June: But Not…
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Gossip Friday: Waitress’ Choice
From February 1936: On a recent questionnaire given to waitresses at the Beverly Hills Brown Derby, it was discovered that twenty-five of the girls were willing to answer. Thirteen of them were writing poetry, three wrote plays and twenty-three thought Clark Gable the best actor. P.S. Only one little gal had any desire to be an actress!
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Snowed in with Clark
Clark Gable never made a Christmas movie. Not even a movie with a legitimate Christmas scene! Surprising but true. So, we’ll have to settle for some shots of Clark in the snow to make things festive around here…
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Gossip Friday: Holiday Greetings from…
From a fan magazine, here are hand-signed holiday wishes from several stars of the golden era, including Olivia de Havilland, Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Jeanette MacDonald, James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant and more. No, Clark and Carole aren’t included, but I thought it a cute holiday gift nonetheless! Happy Holidays everyone! Click to enlarge:
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Gossip Friday: Roughing it
From February 1939: Clark Gable’s hunting paraphernalia is really something to look at. His sleeping bag is made with an extra-thick downy mattress. His gun cases were given to him by Carole Lombard. They are made of hand-carved leather. The deer gun case has hand-carved deer for decoration. The duck gun case is finished off with hand-carved ducks. Clark usually hunts up Bakersfield way and Carole often goes along. She’s such a crack shot, she usually gets the limit a few minutes after her arrival. So she spends the rest of her time playing retriever for Clark. And they used to call this “roughing it!”
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December Movie of the Month: Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Following on the heels of the very successful Test Pilot, Clark and Myrna Loy were teamed again in 1938 for another romantic adventure drama. This film is an interesting look behind the scenes at the now-extinct-thanks-to-television newsreel business. Gable is Chris Hunter, a newsreel cameraman who is always where the action is. Walter Pidgeon is Bill Dennis, a rival newsreel cameraman who is constantly trying to out-scoop Chris. Both of them are bored in Shanghai since they can’t get anywhere near the action of the Chinese-Japanese war. His boss (Walter Connolly) demanding action shots of the war, Chris starts making up fake shots using toy airplanes and sending them in.…
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Gossip Friday: Ria’s Ready for her Closeup
From February 1939: One of the most attractive and popular matrons in Hollywood is Ria Gable. Even though she separated from Clark Gable, all their old friends clung to Ria as a tribute to her. Recently Ria returned from a trip to New York. Hollywood was happy to have her back. And Ria says the highlight of her trip was an afternoon spent in Gloria Swanson’s New York apartment. The decorating scheme and all the furnishings of her Hollywood home have been transferred East by Gloria. The same charm, the same individuality that made Gloria Swanson’s home a showplace in Hollywood, makes her new residence of the really outstanding places…
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{New Article} 2001: A Man’s Man Off the Screen Too
This article is one I found during my recent trip to Los Angeles. It was published in the Los Angeles Times to commemerate Clark Gable’s 100th birthday. I particularly enjoyed this article because it is very casual in style–just the author describing what Clark was like while he talked to him. An interesting glimpse inside the man. Particularly funny is the description of Clark trying to run a simple errand and getting accosted on the street: A few minutes later he came out of the elevator wearing a double-breasted, camel hair wrap-around coat, a tan, wide-brim fedora hat, and the Gable grin. He was taller and more rugged looking than…
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Gossip Friday: Keeping His Promise
From April 1940: Clark Gable and a friend dashed out of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York and entered a taxi, on their way to the broadcasting station. Clark was due to go on the air in a national hook-up, and they already were frightfully late. The crowd espied Gable. And that was that. They threatened to overturn the vehicle unless he emerged for all to see, and signed his autograph for then. When he didn’t leave the taxi, and the friend in his excitement shouted to the driver to go through the crowd, the mob actually started to make good their threat. The actor solved the difficulty by leaning out…