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Gone with the Wednesday: Celebrate the 75th Anniversary in Ohio with The Clark Gable Foundation!
Clark Gable’s home state of Ohio will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of Gone with the Wind this October! Patrick Curtis and Mickey Kuhn (toddler Beau and child Beau in the film) will be in attendance! Friday, October 3 at the Cadiz Country Club in Cadiz, Ohio: 5:30pm–Dinner, Play and Open Forum with Patrick and Mickey Saturday, October 4 at the Tuscarawas County Branch of Kent University Performing Arts Center in New Philadelphia, Ohio: 11:00am–Exhibits and Sales Tables 1:00pm–Forum with Patrick and Mickey 2:00pm–Auction of Memorabilia 4:30pm–Screening of Gone with the Wind For further information and to obtain tickets, contact the Clark Gable Foundation at (614) 942-4989.…
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Gossip Friday: Compounded Salary
From September 1936: Everyone thought Clark Gable was clowning when he remarked that he would like to sign a contract for twenty-eight days, starting with two cents a day. Each day’s salary to be multiplied by itself. In other words, the first day he would make two cents. The second day four cents. Believe it or not, by the end of twenty-eight days, it runs up in the millions. If you don’t believe Clark, get out your paper and pencil and start figuring.
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Gone with the Wednesday: Vivien Leigh, Rhett Butler and I
Here is an article from Photoplay magazine in February 1940 in which Clark dispels some rumors about Vivien Leigh, his feelings toward playing Rhett Butler, and his marriage to Carole Lombard. Some quotes: On the challenge of playing Rhett Butler: “…my mind was preoccupied with Rhett Butler. He had me plenty worried, so worried that I didn’t want to play him. Don’t think that was because I didn’t realize what a fat part he was. Rhett is one of the greatest male characters ever created. I knew that. I’d read the entire book through six times, trying to get his moods. I’ve still got a copy in my dressing…
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August Movie of the Month: San Francisco (1936)
This month, Clark is a hard gamblin’ hard drinkin’ woman chasin’ shyster, Spencer Tracy is his best friend the priest and Jeanette MacDonald is the saintly opera singer who steals his heart in San Francisco. Gable is Blackie Norton, a ruthless saloon-keeper in 1906 San Francisco, proud of his gambling ways. Despite their differences, he falls in love with Mary Blake (MacDonald), an aspiring opera singer who he hires to sing in his revue. His childhood pal, priest Tim Mullin (Tracy), objects to him putting Mary on display and stopping her from her opera aspirations. Realizing that Tim is right and that she should pursue her dreams instead of letting…
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Gossip Friday: A Familiar Looking Couple
From November 1939: One cold, fall night not long ago, an auto court manager in a small California mountain town rented a bearded man and his wife a cabin for one night. The manager didn’t pay much attention to the man, or the beard, because every male in town was growing one for the annual Fiesta. But he couldn’t he over how pretty the blonde girl was, and he was almost sure he had seen her before. The next morning word was buzzed about the town that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard had spent the night there, and left behind a hunting coat with Clark’s name in it. There were immediate suggestions that the coat be…
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Lauren Bacall and Clark Gable: No Sparks
As everyone as heard by now, screen legend Lauren Bacall died this week at the age of 89. Known for her whistling, partying with the Rat Pack, legendary romance with Humphrey Bogart and that steely stare, Lauren’s death leaves a void in Hollywood. Glamour that can not be copied. Although Lauren did not star alongside Clark Gable in any feature films, did you know that she did have the pleasure of being Clark ‘s date for one night? In the summer of 1944, Lauren was depressed because her ongoing affair with the married Humphrey Bogart was not going anywhere. They were on the outs and her friends all thought she should move…
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Gone with the Wednesday: Clark Gable, George Cukor and the Rumor Mill
Ever heard the rumor that Clark Gable got George Cukor fired as the director of Gone with the Wind because George was gay and Clark had such an inflated ego he wanted his own friend Vic Fleming to diret him instead? I hash out the rumor in this post from 2012: Rumor Mill: Clark Gable, George Cukor and Gone with the Wind
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Photos: We Point With Pride
Silver Screen magazine “points with pride” to Clark, in April 1939: In The Lists Of The “Ten Best,” Clark Gable Is Always Among Those Present. All the misguided promotion ideas that usually leave the actor booked for Oblivion were tried on Clark Gable, but he out-lasted them all. He was Great-Lovered and Parnelled, but he is still one of the best bets at the box-office. Whether he is cast in a part like Christian on the Bounty or a lead in “It Happened One Night,” he does his dardnest and leaves it up to you. And there is his secret–he gives you all he’s got, and who can give…
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Gossip Friday: No Brooding Lancelot
From September 1951: Clark Gable will be too busy to brood, even if he were inclined to, over the divorce from Sylvia. He’ll do his first costume picture since “Gone with the Wind,” called “King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table,” in which he’ll portray Lancelot, and talk is that the King will also star in a series of rough and romantic adventure dramas this fall. ____ Well, that film didn’t come to fruition at all! And I think at 50 Clark was a bit old to be Lancelot anyway…
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Gone with the Wednesday: The Stars Before “the Wind”
Let’s take a look at the stars of Gone with the Wind before they starred in their iconic roles 75 years ago… Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O’Hara) Olivia de Havilland (Melanie Wilkes) Ann Rutherford (Carreen O’Hara) Evelyn Keyes (Suellen O’Hara) Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes) Barbara O’Neill (Ellen O’Hara) Thomas Mitchell (Gerald O’Hara) and…a young Clark Gable (Rhett Butler)