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Gossip Friday: Most Kissed Man
From May 1947: By the time he finishes “The Hucksters,” Clark Gable will be the most-kissed man in Hollywood. His first scene called for him to kiss Connie Gilchrist, who plays a telephone operator; three times. Later the same day, he kissed Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner and five-year-old Diane Perrine! Clark has dropped 20 pounds since he made “Adventure”–and not from all that kissing, either. He didn’t like the way he looked on the screen with all that weight and went to work exercising it off. Here’s a little tip that may interest you. After seeing Gable and Ava Gardner in action, MGM is thinking about remaking some of the…
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{New Article} 1940: Mrs. Goldilocks and The Bears
Here is one of these articles that I had in a pile for years and I swore I had already typed and posted it, but turns out I didn’t. So here it is. It’s about Clark Gable and Carole Lombard and their friends in Encino–Andy Devine, Phil Harris and Lum and Abner. It all started months ago when Andy Devine, Lum and Abner, Clark and Carole, and Phil Harris kind of struck up a close friendship over hunting and fishing. Sunday mornings, or whenever they had a free dawn, they’d get up at the crack of it, and rig up duck blinds in a marsh some forty miles from town.…
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Gossip Friday: A Startling Chapeau
From August 1936: While we’re in the startling chapeau department, it might be well to record the fact that Clark Gable arrived at the preview of “The Princess Comes Across” with Carole Lombard and a beret. He took a terrific razzing from a gang of youngsters on the sidewalk and went in to view the picture, which contains a funny sequence about a he-man type of guy wearing a beret. On the way out the beret was stuffed in the Gable pocket.
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{New Article} World’s No.1 Honeymooners: The Clark Gables!
This article, by Ed Sullivan, appeared in newspapers on October 15,1939. So, here it is exactly 80 years later! It promises that “Sullivan takes you into the Hollywood home of the newlyweds to tell you for the first time the true story of their elopement,” but don’t get too excited because there is no interview with Clark Gable or Carole Lombard here, nor are there really any earth-shattering revelations. On the road maps it is route 101, the Los Angeles natives refer to it more familiarly as Ventura boulevard, the ribbon of concrete which meanders north to San Francisco thru the hot and fertile valleys and foothills of California. I…
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{Photos} The Marital Mix-Up of Carole and Clark
Here is a pictorial layout in a fan magazine from 1939, before Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married. Pretty much from the second these two were confirmed as a couple there had been article after article about whether or not they’d marry. You’d think with the title “The Marital Mix-Up of Carole and Clark” that there would be an article following this but nope, just pictures of Clark and Carole in No Man of Her Own and with their former spouses. Huh. Here it is anyway:
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{New Article} 1939: What’s the Matter with Lombard?
This article, published a few months after Carole Lombard married Clark Gable, wonders what is the matter with her, in the same vein as other articles after she became involved with Clark, such as Why is Carole Lombard Hiding Out From Hollywood? and What’s Become of the Good Scout? There are persons in Hollywood who are sore at Lombard. She doesn’t care, however, because she probably doesn’t know of her misfortune. If she did, she would doubtless do something about it, because Carole is too good a business woman to willfully make anyone sore at her and too warm-hearted to deliberately give offense to anyone. It never pays to make…
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It’s Here Again…Carole Lombard Month!
To celebrate the third Mrs. Gable’s birthday, October is Carole Lombard Month here on DearMrGable.com! So stay tuned for new articles and pictures of Clark’s beloved Ma all month! Follow us on Facebook and Instagram!
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Gossip Friday: You Need a Sense of Humor
From July 1941: Clark Gable and Bing Crosby pass out identical advice. If you want to be popular, successful and happy, say they, develop a sense of humor. “Because a sense of humor will let a girl be natural,” specifies Clark Gable. “It will act as a shock-absorber for the rough spots a girl’s going to find wherever she goes. And because it’s a pleasure to work with jolly people, she will find herself in demand everywhere.” “A sense of humor makes affectation impossible,” explains Bing. “A sense of humor and a sincerity set off a girl’s wholesomeness. That’s the best bit of happiness and success insurance any girl can…
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{New Article} 1951: The Girl Who Won Gable Back
This article is a follow-up to the one I posted a few weeks ago, Clark Gable’s Secret Romance. That 1949 article was all about the sweet, secret romance between Clark Gable and Virginia Grey. Well, by the end of that year Clark had married his fourth wife, Sylvia, and left Virginia in the dust, despite Modern Screen magazine’s insistence that Virginia would be the next Mrs. Gable. By the time this article was published in November 1951, Sylvia had moved out and Clark was back on the market. The night she heard of Clark Gable’s marriage to Sylvia Ashley, she cried her eyes out. Later, her sister came by, took…
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Gossip Friday: Quite a Party
From April 1957: The party of the month: Whether it cost $125,000 as loudly calculated, or just one third of that amount, there’s no argument that the lavish party hosted by oil millionaire Tex Feldman and his wife was one of the most elaborate ever held in any town–any time. The private room at Romanoff’s was completely redecorated into a replica of New York’s famed Delmonico Restaurant at the turn of the century. The guests were invited to dress in the theme of “My Fair Lady.” … Clark Gable and his Kay asked if they could bring two out-of-town guests, and had to be told they couldn’t! Because of the…
