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{New Article} 1947: Tee for Two
I’ve typed many an article for this website (see for yourself) and will admit that the majority of fan magazine pieces are fluff. Especially in the early 1930’s–they are long winded, written in an almost comical romantic prose, and have little to no substance. This trend started to change after World War II, and most of the articles you get are actual interviews, some better than others. This one from 1947 is actually an entertaining little piece, written by Clark’s frequent golfing buddy Ed Sullivan. In it you’ll find a rare nugget indeed: a Clark quote about Carole Lombard. After her death, his quotes about her are few and far…
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Gossip Friday: Book of Outtakes
From March 1936: Just heard an amusing story about Carole Lombard. For years, she has been saving all the portraits of herself that went wrong in the gallery and were never released. Pictures in which she looked awkward or silly. Now she’s had 500 of them bound into a book. ___ If that’s true, wouldn’t we all love to see it!
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{In the News} 1941: That Flapping at the Gables’ is Mighty Like a Stork
The omnipresent rumors of an impending little Gable continued on in this newspaper spread from 1941: That Flapping at the Gables’ is Mighty Like a Stork Hollywood, Feb. 14–A little Rhett Butler (or possibly a Rhetta) is now on its way at the nearby rancho of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, according to advices on Sir Stork’s movieland grapevine today. The report was linked to Carole’s visit to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Jan.2, when she was given a physical check up by Dr. Richard W. Telinde, the hospital’s chief gynecologist. Intimates of the couple recalled that Carole’s pet name for Clark is “Pappy” and that, in recent weeks,…
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Movie of the Week: Strange Cargo (1940)
This week, Clark Gable is a no-good, very bad convict and Joan Crawford is the naughty girl he’s chasing in Strange Cargo. Gable is Verne, a thief who has been imprisoned for years in a dirty jail on an island in New Guinea. Out on work duty one day, he comes across Julie (Crawford), a cafe singer. She turns him in when he breaks out to try and be with her. She is then banished from the island for harboring a criminal. When Verne manages to escape again along with fellow inmates, Julie joins them on their voyage to the mainland. Both are uneasy by the presence of Cambreau (Ian…
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{Photos} Carole Connection: Idiot’s Delight (1939)
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard weren’t married yet when Clark started filming Idiot’s Delight. He had just signed on the dotted line to play Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, but had time to kill before GWTW started. Norma Shearer had personally requested him for the lead in Idiot’s Delight, as she could no longer be counted on to bring in the big crowds based on her name alone. Clark was leery of the film. He had seen the play when it had been in Los Angeles, with Alfred Lunt in the role, and knew it required singing and dancing, neither of which he was confident in doing. Director…
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Gossip Friday: Holy Toledo!
From December 1941: Since they’ve established that swear kitty on Carole Lombard’s set, her favorite expression has become “Holy Toledo!”
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{In the News} 1941: Carole Lombard Declares Open Season on Gossipers
Here’s a syndicated newspaper article from October 1941 (similar to this article in the Archive from 1940: “Help Kill Crazy Rumors about Me!”) Carole Lombard Declares Open Season on Gossipers Goes Hunting After Denying She’s Dead or Is to Divorce Clark Gable Hollywood, Oct. 13–Carole Lombard went gunning today, not only for birds with feathers on ’em, but also for the radio oracles who claim she’s about to divorce Clark Gable, or die, or both. Miss Lombard will get the ducks when the season starts Thursday. On the gossipers she has declared open season. They’re causing her phone to ring so much she’s not getting enough sleep. Last week Miss…
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Movie of the Week: Idiot’s Delight (1939)
You get to watch Clark Gable dance the very best he can and Norma Shearer do her very best Greta Garbo impression in this week’s film, Idiot’s Delight (1939). Gable is Harry Van, a World War I vet and struggling vaudeville performer when he meets Irene (Norma Shearer), while performing in a traveling show in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the assistant to the hilariously inept Madame Zulieka (Laura Hope Crews), she an acrobat. They have a brief romance before going their separate ways. Many years pass as Harry tries different acts and odd jobs in between. Fast forward to 1939 and Harry is on a train in Europe with his current act, Les…
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Gossip Friday: Better Think Twice
From March 1936: The next time Carole Lombard goes to give anybody a dog, she’ll think twice. The day after she bought a dachshund for Walter Lang, he left for the Orient and deposited the pooch with Carole. Now she has to cart it around the studio with her own two mutts. To make it worse, there is bad blood between Lang’s dachshund and Carole’s Pekingese, “Pushface.”
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{Photos} No Man of Her Own (1932)
Here’s some pictures from this week’s movie, No Man of Her Own (1932). The portraits from this film are stunning. Although Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were not supposedly romantically involved at the time, the still camera sure did capture a lot of their heat! I think it knew something they didn’t… There’s a few publicity shots of Clark and Carole with Dorothy Mackaill looming strangely over them. And there’s this one, which looks like Clark is about to strangle Carole. On the last day of shooting, notorious prankster Carole gave Clark a ham with his face pasted on it. In return, Clark gave Carole a giant pair of shoes,…