William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 - November 16, 1960) is an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or simply "The King". He began his career as a bus boy and appeared in addition to a silent film between 1924 and 1926, and developed to support roles with several films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1930. The following year, he earned his first role in Hollywood. and over the next three decades he became a prominent person in over 60 films.
Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night (1934), and was nominated for a lead role in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and for his best - known as Rhett Butler on Gone with the Wind (1939) (according to Encyclopaedia Britannica ). Gable also found success commercially and critically with films such as Red Dust (1932), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), San Francisco (1936) Saratoga (1937) Boom Town (1940), The Hucksters (1947), Homecoming (1948); and The Misfits (1961), which is his last screen appearance.
Gable came up against some of the most popular actresses of the day. Joan Crawford is her favorite actress to work with, and she's partnered with Gable in eight films. Myrna Loy worked with him seven times, and he was paired with Jean Harlow in six productions. He also starred with Lana Turner in four features, and with Norma Shearer and Ava Gardner in three apiece. Gable's last movie, The Misfits (1961), unites them with Marilyn Monroe (also in his last final screen appearance).
Gable is considered one of the most consistent box-office players in history, appearing in the annual Ten Ten Money Making Stars Polling Quigley Publishing yearly. He was crowned as the seventh-largest male star of the classic American cinema by the American Film Institute.
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Life and career
Early life
William Clark Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio, to William Henry "Will" Gable (1870-1948), an oilman, and his wife, Adeline (nÃÆ' Â © e Hershelman). His father was a Protestant and his mother was a Roman Catholic. Gable named William after his father, but even in his childhood, he was almost always called Clark or sometimes Billy. She was mistakenly registered as a woman on her birth certificate. Among Gable's ancestors were the Pennsylvania Netherlands (Germany), Belgium, Rhinelander, and Bavarians.
When Gable was six months old, he was baptized at the Roman Catholic church in Dennison, Ohio. Her mother died when she was ten months old, probably from a brain tumor, although the official cause of death was given as epilepsy. William Gable refused to raise his son, Catholic, who provoked criticism from the Hershelmans. The dispute was settled when Will Gable agreed to allow his son to spend time with his maternal uncle, Charles Hershelman, and his wife on their farm in Vernon City, Pennsylvania.
In April 1903, Gable's father married Jennie Dunlap (1874-1919), whose family came from the neighboring town of Hopedale. The marriage does not produce a child. Gable is a tall and shy boy with a loud voice. Her stepmother raised her to be neat and tidy. Jennie plays the piano and gives her stepson lessons at home. Then he took the brass instrument. At 13, she was the only boy in a male band. He is very mechanically inclined and likes to dismantle and repair cars with his father. Although his father insisted that Gable do "manly" things, such as hunting and hard physical work, Gable liked the language. Among the trusted companies, he will read Shakespeare, especially the sonnets.
Will Gable agreed to buy 72 volumes of the World's Largest Literature to improve his son's education, but claimed he had never seen his son use it. In 1917, when Gable was still in high school, his father was in financial trouble. Will decided to pay off his debt and try his hand on the farm, and his family moved to Ravenna, Ohio, near Akron. Despite his father's insistence that he work in the fields, Gable immediately went to work in Akron for Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Initial career
At 17, Clark Gable was inspired to become an actor after seeing The Bird of Paradise drama, but he could not make a real start until he was 21 and inherited some money.
By then, his stepmother had died, and his father had moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma to return to the oil business. Gable toured the stock companies, and worked in the oil fields and as a horse manager. He found work with some second-rate theater companies, so he walked across the Midwest to Seaside, Oregon, worked as a woodcutter, and to Portland, Oregon, where he worked as a tie seller at Meier & Frank department store. In Portland, she meets Laura Hope Crews, a stage and movie actress, who encourages her to return to the stage with another theater company. Twenty years later, Crews played Aunt Pittypat with Gable Rhett Butler at Gone With the Wind (1939).
Acting coach Gable, Josephine Dillon - theater manager in Portland - 17 years older than him. He pays for his teeth to be fixed and his hair styled. He guided her in building a chronically malnourished body, and taught her better body control and posture. He spends a lot of time training his high-pitched voice naturally, which he slowly scales down, to get better resonance and tone. As her speech habits increase, her facial expressions become more natural and reassuring. After a long practice, Dillon thought he was ready to try a film career.
Movie stage and quiet
In 1924, with Dillon funding, they went to Hollywood, where he became manager and first wife of Gable. He changed his stage name from W. C. Gable to Clark Gable. He found work in addition to silent films like Erich von Stroheim The Merry Widow (1925), The Plastic Age (1925), starring Clara Bow, Forbidden Paradise (1924), starring Pola Negri, plus a series of two-reel comedy called The Pacemakers . He appeared as an addition to Fox The Johnstown Flood (1926). Seventeen-year-old Carole Lombard, who later became his third wife, also appeared in addition to the film, even though they were not in the same scene. He also appeared as a small player in a series of shorts.
However, he was not offered a major movie role, so he returned to the stage. She became a lifelong friend with Lionel Barrymore, who, although initially cried Gable out for what he considered an amateur acting, urged him to pursue a career on stage. During the theater season of 1927-28, he acted with the Laskin Brothers Stock Company in Houston, Texas, where he played many roles, gained enough experience, and became a daytime idol performer. He then moved to New York City, and Dillon was looking for a job for him on Broadway. He received good reviews on Machinal (1928); "She is young, strong and brutally masculine," wrote the critic at The Morning Telegraph.
Initial success and rising stars
In 1930, after his impressive performance as a boisterous and desperate Killer character in the Los Angeles stage production of The Last Mile, Gable was offered a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His first role in the voicemail was as a unshaven criminal in William Boyd Western's low budget called The Painted Desert (1931). He received many fan letters as a result of his strong voice and performance; the studio noticed.
In 1930, Gable and Josephine Dillon divorced. A few days later, he married the Texas socialite Maria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham, who was nicknamed "Rhea". After moving to California, they remarried in 1931, possibly due to differences in state legal requirements. "His ears are too big and he looks like an ape," said Darryl executive F. Zanuck, then at Warner Bros., about Gable after testing him to lead in the studio gangster drama Little Caesar (1931).
That same year, at Night Nurse, Gable plays an evil driver who gradually starved two sweet little girls to death, then made Barbara Stanwyck's character unconscious with her fist, a supporter role originally planned for James Cagney until the release of The Public Enemy suddenly made Cagney a leader. After several screen tests failed for Barrymore and Zanuck, Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg. He became a client of a well-connected agent, Minna Wallis, brother of producer Hal Wallis and a close friend of Norma Shearer.
Gable's arrival in Hollywood happened by chance. MGM is looking to expand the stability of male stars and he fits into the law. He first worked primarily in supporting the role, often as a villain. He made two drawings in 1931 with Wallace Beery, a supporting role in The Secret Six , then with his share increasing in size almost matching Beery's in the Hell Divers aviation movie . MGM's publicity manager, Howard Strickling, developed the image of Gable's studio, playing his he-man experience and the lumberjack in evening clothes personality.
To increase its popularity, MGM often pair it with established female stars. Joan Crawford asked her as her fellow at Dance, Fools, Dance (1931). He built public fame and visibility in films such as A Free Soul (1931), in which he played a gangster who encouraged the character played by Norma Shearer; Gable never played a supporting role again. The Hollywood Reporter writes "A star in the making has been made, one that, for our calculations, will surpass another star... Never have we seen the audience work themselves into such enthusiasm when Clark Gable walked in screen ".
He followed it with Susan Lenox (1931) with Greta Garbo, and Possessed (1931), where Crawford (later married to Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and he drove the screen. Adela Rogers St. Johns later dubbed real life relationships Gable and Crawford as "an affair that almost burned Hollywood." Louis B. Mayer threatened to terminate their contract, and for the time being they stayed separate. Gable turned his attention to Marion Davies. However, Gable and Garbo disliked each other. He thinks he is a wooden actor, while he thinks he's arrogant.
Gable is considered for Tarzan's role in Tarzan the Ape Man, but lost to superior physical skills and swimming skills from Johnny Weissmuller. However, making love with Gable with Jean Harlow without a bra in Red Dust (1932) soon made him the most important male star of MGM.
After the hit Hold Your Man (1933), MGM recognized the Gable-Harlow couple's gold mine, placing them in two more films, China Seas (1935) with Gable and Harlow billed at over Wallace Beery) and Wife vs. Secretary (1936) with Myrna Loy and James Stewart. A very popular, on-screen and off-screen combination, Gable and Harlow made six joint films, the most famous being Red Dust (1932) and Saratoga (1937). Harlow died during the production of Saratoga . Ninety percent completed, the remaining scenes were filmed with long shots or double use like Mary Dees; Gable says that he feels as if "being in a phantom embrace".
MGM does not have a project ready for Gable and pays him $ 2,000 per week, under his contract, to not do anything. Head studio Louis B. Mayer lent him to Columbia for $ 2,500 per week, earning $ 500 profit per week. Gable was not the first choice to play the lead role of Peter Warne on It Happened One Night (1934). Robert Montgomery initially offered the role, but he refused, feeling the script was bad.
The shooting started in a tense atmosphere, but both Gable and director Frank Capra enjoyed filming. It Happened One Night became the first film to sweep all five Academy Awards, with the winner Gable for Best Actor. For Capra, Gable's character in the movie is very similar to his original personality:
It Happen One Night is the real Gable. He can never play such a character except in one film. They made him play as a big and excited lover, but he's not that kind of guy. He's a humble person, he loves everything, he comes down with ordinary people. He did not want to play the parts of that great lover; he just wants to play Clark Gable, like him on It Happened One Night, and that's too bad, they do not let him follow that.
He returned to MGM as a star bigger than ever. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Fletcher Christian at Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
Spencer Tracy Collaboration
Gable makes three pictures with Spencer Tracy, who enhances Tracy's career and solidifies them in the public mind as a team. San Francisco (1936) featured Tracy in a brief but Oscar-nominated role in which she served as a priest knocking Gable, who was then the studio's lead leader, in a boxing ring.
Go with the Wind
Despite his reluctance to play a role, Gable is best known for his performance at Gone with the Wind (1939), where he earned Best Actor Oscar nomination. Carole Lombard was probably the first to state that he played Rhett Butler (and he played Scarlett) when he bought him a copy of a bestseller, which he refused to read.
Butler's last sentence on Gone with the Wind , "Frankly, my dear, I do not care," is one of the most famous lines in film history. Gable is an almost immediate favorite for Rhett's role with public and producer David O. Selznick. Since Selznick does not have a male star under a long-term contract, he needs to go through a negotiating process to borrow an actor from another studio. Gary Cooper is Selznick's first choice. When Cooper rejected the role of Butler, he was quoted as saying, " Gone With the Wind will be the biggest failure in Hollywood history.I'm glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his nose, not me." On At that time, Selznick was determined to hire Gable, and started looking for ways to borrow it from MGM. Gable is wary of potentially disappointing audiences who have decided that no one else can play that role. He later admitted, "I think I know now how a fly should react after being caught in a spider web."
With all accounts, Gable got along well with his co-stars during filming. Gable is a good friend to actress Hattie McDaniel, and she even slips a real alcoholic beverage during a scene where they should celebrate the birth of Scarlett's and Rhett's daughters. Clark Gable was almost out of the "Gone With the Wind" location when she found the studio facilities separated and named "White" and "Colored." Gable speaks on the phone with film director Victor Fleming, who calls the master prop and tells him, "If you do not get the signs, you will not get Rhett Butler." The signs are lowered immediately. Gable tried to boycott the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, Georgia, because McDaniel from African American was not allowed to attend. She is reportedly just leaving after she begs him to leave. Gable remained friends with McDaniel, and he always attended his Hollywood parties, especially when he raised funds during World War II.
Gable did not want to shed tears for the scene after Rhett accidentally caused Scarlett to miscarry their second child. Olivia de Havilland made her cry, then commented, "... Oh, he will not do it.He will not! Victor (Fleming) tried everything with him He tries to attack him on a professional level We have done it without him crying a few times and then we trying to last.I said, 'You can do it, I know you can do it and you will be amazing...' Well, in heaven, just before the camera rolls, you can see tears dripping in his eyes and he plays the scene with very good.He put all his heart into it. "
A few decades later, Gable says that every time his career will begin to fade, the release of Gone with the Wind will immediately revive its popularity, and he continues as top actor for the rest of his life.
Marriage to Carole Lombard
Gable's marriage in 1939 to his third wife, actress Carole Lombard (1908-1942), was the happiest period in her personal life. They met while filming 1932's No Man of Her Own while Lombard was still married to actor William Powell, but their romance did not take off until 1936. They became reunited at a party and soon became inseparable, quoted in fan magazines and tabloids as an official couple. Gable developed well around the young, charming, and honest personality of Lombard, saying, "You can trust that little nonsense with your life or your hopes or your weaknesses, and he does not even know how to think about letting you fall." Lombard, for its part, seems to have gained personal stability and a satisfied household life that he did not have before. He taught himself how to hunt and fish and accompany Gable on a journey with his hunting mates.
Gable is still legally married, and he extends a long and expensive divorce from his second wife, Rhea Langham. Her salary from Gone with the Wind enabled her to reach a divorce settlement with Langham, however, on March 7, 1939. On March 29, at production break at Gone with the Wind , Gable and Lombard were married in Kingman, Arizona. They bought a farm previously owned by director Raoul Walsh in Encino, California, and made it their home. They raise chickens and horses, and keep cats and dogs.
On January 16, 1942, Lombard was a passenger on the Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 3 with his mother and press agent Otto Winkler. She just finished her 57th movie, Being To Be or Be, and was on her way home from a successful tour of a successful bond sale when a DC-3 flight crashed into a mountain near Las Vegas, Nevada, killing 22 passengers, including 15 soldiers en route to training in California. Gable flew to the crash site to claim the corpses of his wife, mother-in-law, and Winkler, who became the best man at the wedding of Gable and Lombard. Lombard was declared a victim of the first war of American women relating to World War II, and Gable received a personal letter of grief from President Roosevelt. The Civil Aeronautical Council investigation of the accident concluded that pilot error was the cause.
Gable returns to their Encino gardens and carries out his burial wishes as he pleads in his will. A month later, he returned to the studio to work with Lana Turner in the Somewhere I'll Find You movie. After losing 20 pounds since the tragedy, Gable proved emotionally and physically destroyed by him, but Turner stated that Gable remained a professional during the duration of filming. He acted in 27 more films and remarried twice. "But he's never the same," said Esther Williams. "He's been ruined by Carole's death."
World War II
For details of combat mission Gable, see RAF Polebrook
In 1942, after Lombard's death, Gable joined the US Army Air Force. Lombard suggested that Gable register as part of the war effort, but MGM was reluctant to let him go, and he rejected the suggestion. Gable made a public statement after Lombard's death that prompted Air Force Air Force General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold to offer Gable a "special duty" in aerial cannon.
The Washington Evening Star reports that Gable performed a physical checkup at Bolling Field on June 19, beginning to join the service.
"Mr. Gable, it was learned from a source outside the war department, was given to Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold, head of the air force yesterday." Star continues. "It's understood that Mr. Gable, if he's assigned, will make a movie for the air forces.Lieut Jimmy Stewart, another uniformed actor, has done this."
Gable had previously expressed interest in the school of aspiring officers, but he registered on August 12, 1942, with the intention of becoming an airman registered to a bomber. MGM arranges for his studio friend, cinematographer Andrew McIntyre, to register with him and accompany him through training.
However, shortly after his registration, McIntyre and he were sent to Miami Beach, Florida, where they entered the USAAF OCS Class 42-E on August 17, 1942. Both completed the training on October 28, 1942, assigned as second lieutenant. His class of approximately 2,600 fellow students (of which he ranks around 700 in standing classes) selected Gable as a graduation speaker, in which General Arnold presented a cadet with their commissions. Arnold then informs Gable of his special duty: to make recruitment films in battle with the Eighth Air Force to recruit air shooters. Gable and McIntyre were immediately sent to the Flexible Gunnery School at Tyndall Field, Florida, followed by a photography course at Fort George Wright, Washington State and promoted to first lieutenant upon completion.
Gable reported to Biggs Army Airfield, Texas, on January 27, 1943, to train together and accompany the 351th Bomb Group to England as the head of a six-person image unit. In addition to McIntyre, he recruited screenwriter John Lee Mahin, Sgts camera operator. Mario Toti and Robert Boles, and a healthy man Lieutenant Howard Voss to equip his crew. Gable was promoted to captain when he was with the 351 Bomb Group in Pueblo Army Air Base, Colorado, a rank commensurate with his position as unit commander. (As first lieutenant, McIntyre and he have the same seniority.)
Gable spent most of 1943 in Britain at RAF Polebrook with the Bomb Group 351. Gable flew five combat missions, including one to Germany, as observers at B-17 Flying Fortresses between 4 May and 23 September 1943, earned Air Medal and Cross Fly Distinguished for its efforts. During one of the missions, Gable's plane was damaged by flakes and attacked by a fighter, who dropped one of the machines and fired the stabilizer. In the attack in Germany, one crew member was killed and two others were injured, and flakes passed Gable's shoes and nearly lost his head. When this news reaches MGM, studio executives begin to undermine the Army Air Force to reassign its most valuable screen actors for noncompetitive duties. In November 1943, Gable returned to the United States to edit his film, only to find that the lack of air shooter personnel had been fixed. He was allowed to finish the film, joining the First Motion Picture Unit in Hollywood.
In May 1944, Gable was promoted to major. He wished for another combat task, but when the invasion of Normandy came and went in June without further orders, Gable was relieved from his active duty as major on June 12, 1944, at his request, because he was too mature to fight.. His letters have been signed by Captain (then US President) Ronald Reagan. Gable completed the editing of the film Combat America in September 1944, gave his own narrative and used many interviews with enlisted shooters as the focus of the film. Since his film production schedule made it impossible for him to fulfill the duty of the reserve officer, he resigned from his commission on September 26, 1947, a week after the Air Force became an independent service branch.
Adolf Hitler likes Gable above all the other actors. During World War II, Hitler offered a decent reward for anyone who could catch and bring Gable to him unscathed.
Gable's military awards are Distinguished Flying Cross, Water Medal, US Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle East Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal. He also qualifies for and receives the air shooter's wings.
He took advantage of his wartime experience in the film Command Decision (1948), playing brigadier general of World War II who oversaw bomb attacks in Germany.
After World War II
As soon as he was out of service, Gable returned to his ranch and rested. He continued his prewar relationship with Virginia Gray and dated other young stars. He introduced his golf caddy Robert Wagner to MGM casting. Gable's first film after World War II was Adventure (1945), with his playmate Greer Garson not matching. It was a critical and commercial failure despite the famous teaser tagline "Gable back and Garson got it".
After Joan Crawford's third divorce, Gable and he resumed their affairs and lived together for a short time. Gable is recognized for his performance in The Hucksters (1947), a hint of corruption and post-war Madison Avenue immorality. A very public and brief romance with Paulette Goddard came after that. In 1949, Gable married Sylvia Ashley, a British model and actress previously married to Douglas Fairbanks. The relationship was very unsuccessful; they divorced in 1952. Immediately following Never Let Me Go (1953), opposite Gene Tierney. Tierney was Gable's favorite and he was very disappointed when he was replaced at Mogambo (due to his mental health problems) by Grace Kelly. Mogambo (1953), directed by John Ford, is a remake somewhat cleaned from the previous Pre-Code film Red Dust , with Jean Harlow and Mary Astor, which has been a success greater than. The affair at Gable's location with Grace Kelly (1929-1982), young enough to be his daughter, gradually ended after the filming was over.
Gable is becoming increasingly unhappy with what he considers to be the mediocre role that MGM offers, while the studio considers his salary excessive. The studio's head Louis B. Mayer was fired in 1951 amid Hollywood production and earnings slump, largely due to the increasing popularity of television. The head of the studio struggles to cut costs. Many MGM stars are dismissed or their contracts are not renewed, including Greer Garson and Judy Garland. In 1953, Gable refused to renew his contract and began to work independently. His first two films in this new situation were the Soldier of Fortune and The Tall Men (both of 1955), which were profitable, despite little success. In 1955, Gable married his fifth wife, Kay Spreckels (nÃÆ' Â © e Kathleen Williams), a former fashion model and actress of thirty years old who had previously married the heiress of Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. Gable became the stepfather to his son. Bunker Spreckels, who went on to live the famous celebrity lifestyle in the late 1960s and early 1970s surfing, eventually leading to an early death in 1977.
In 1955, Gable formed a production company with Jane Russell and her husband, Bob Waterfield, and they produced The King and Four Queens (1956), only Gable production. He found producing and acting too heavily on his health, and he began to manifest real vibrations, especially in the long run. The next project was Band of Angels (1957), with relative newcomer Sidney Poitier and Yvonne De Carlo; it was not well received despite the similarity of Gable's role with Rhett Butler. Newsweek said, "It's a very bad movie so it must be seen to not believe it." Subsequently, he paired up with Doris Day in Teacher's Pet (1958), taking a black and white image. The film is good enough to bring Gable to offer more movies, including Run Silent, Run Deep (also 1958), with co-star and producer Burt Lancaster, featuring his first onscreen death since 1937, and which get good reviews. Gable began to accept television bids, but refused them unfairly. At the age of 57, Gable finally admitted, "Now is the time to act on my age". The next two movies were a light comedy for Paramount: But Not For Me (1959) with Carroll Baker and Beginning In Naples (1960) with Sophia Loren. The latter, despite the cold critical reception, was a nice box-office success and was nominated for an Academy award and two Golden Globes. Filmed mostly in locations in Italy, it was Gable's last movie released in color.
On February 8, 1960, Gable received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in the film, located at 1608 Vine Street.
Gable's last movie is The Misfits (1961), with a script by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston. Starring along with Gable is Marilyn Monroe, her final completed film; Montgomery Clift; Eli Wallach; and Thelma Ritter. Many critics regard Gable's performance as the best, and Gable, after seeing the rough cuts, agrees.
Portraitist Al Hirschfeld made the drawing, and then the lithograph, depicting Clift, Monroe, and Gable movie stars with screenwriter Miller, in what was suggested as a typical "on-the-set" scene during troubled production. Throughout his life, Gable loved the work of artist Reinhold Palenske, and they were close friends.
Politics
Gable is a conservative Republican, although he never publicly speaks of politics. His third wife, Carole Lombard, was a liberal Democratic activist, and he persuaded him to support Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt and New Deal. In 1944, he became an early member of the Conservative Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, with Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and other conservative actors and filmmakers, and therefore pro-McCarthy. In February 1952, he attended a public meeting on television in New York where he enthusiastically urged General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for president. This is when Eisenhower is still sought by both parties as their candidate. Despite severe coronary thrombosis, Gable still managed to vote by letter in the 1960 presidential election for Richard Nixon.
Death
On November 6, 1960, Gable was sent to the Presbyterian Medical Center of Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, where doctors discovered that he had suffered a heart attack. The newspaper report the following day noted his condition as satisfactory. On the morning of November 16 he looked better. But he died that night at the age of 59 years from an arterial blood clot. The medical staff did not do CPR for fear that the procedure would damage Gable's heart, and the defibrillator was not available.
There has been speculation that Gable's physical role in The Misfits contributed to his sudden demise as soon as the filming was over. In an interview with Louella Parsons, published shortly after Gable's death, Kay Gable said, "It was not the physical effort that killed him, it was a terrible tension, waiting for the eternal, waiting, waiting, waiting forever, for everyone. angry so he just goes and does anything to keep busy. "Monroe says that he and Kay have become close during the filming and will refer to Clark as" Our Man ", while Arthur Miller, observing Gable at the scene, notes," no no sign of humiliation ever showed on his face ".
On March 20, 1961, Kay Gable gave birth to Gable's only son, John Clark Gable, at the same hospital where her husband died four months earlier. Marilyn Monroe attends her son's baptism.
Gable is buried in Great Mausoleum, Memorial Terrace at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale.
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Personal and family life
During the filming of The Call of the Wild in early 1935, the film's lead actress, Loretta Young, became pregnant with Gable's son. Their daughter, Judy, was born in November 1935. Those who know about Gable's father widely assume that pregnancy is the result of an affair. Eighty years later, Linda's son-in-law Lewis - Young - claims that prior to his death, Young informs him that he has been raped by Gable, and though both have been eye-playing, there is no infidelity.
Young pregnancy is hidden in a complicated scheme, reportedly designed by Eddie Mannix. As he approaches the end of his pregnancy, he is on vacation to Europe for several months. He then returned to the United States to give birth to their daughter in Venice, California. During Young's pregnancy, Gable had spent a lot of time overseas, but he was in New York City when he received an unmarked telegram saying, "The baby was born, she is beautiful, and blond." Young and his mother refused to send a telegram; Loretta believes that Carter Hermann (husband of his brother Polly, who is also Judy's godfather) has sent him.
Judy Lewis was the only child Gable born when she was alive. Nineteen months after birth, Young claimed to have adopted Judy. The girl grew very similar to Gable, including having big ears sticking out. She went by the name of Judy Lewis after her mother married Tom Lewis when Judy was four years old. According to Lewis, Gable visited his home once, when he was 15 years old, asked about his life, and kissed him on his forehead after leaving. She did not tell him that she was her real father. Both Gable and Young will never publicly acknowledge the truth about their daughter, but mostly in Hollywood and some in the general public believe that Gable is his father, because, in part, due to their strong resemblance and the time of his birth.
When he was 31 and five years after Clark Gable's death, Lewis finally confronted his mother about his true offspring. Loretta insists that she is her birth mother and Gable is her father. Young never publicly acknowledged the reality while he was alive, which he said would confess grave sins. However, he eventually granted his biographers permission to enter information provided that the book was not published until after his death. He died on August 12, 2000, at the age of 87 years of ovarian cancer. Judy Lewis died at the age of 76 on November 25, 2011, also cancer.
In 1955, Gable married twice divorced with Kay Williams, and had a son, John Clark Gable, by him, on March 20, 1961, after his death. John Clark has two children: Kayley Gable (born 1986) and Clark James Gable (born September 20, 1988). Kayley is an actress, while Clark James currently hosts the national reality show Cheaters .
Style and acceptance
In a photo essay of a Hollywood movie star, Life magazine called Gable, "All men... and a few more."
Doris Day summed up Gable's unique personality: "He's as masculine as any man I've ever known, and like a little boy who can become an adult man - this combination is very bad for women."
The old friend, the star together eight times and again, romantically again Joan Crawford concurred, stating on David Frost's TV show in 1970 that "he is king wherever he goes" He goes like that, he behaves like that, and he is the most masculine man I have ever met in my life. "
Robert Taylor says, "Gable" is a great guy, great, and of course one of the great stars of all time, if not the greatest. I think I really doubt that there will be others like Clark Gable; he is a good person. "
In his memoir Bring on Empty Horse David Niven states that Gable, a close friend, is very supportive after the sudden and accidental death of Niven's first wife Primula (Primmie) in 1946. Primmie has supported Gable emotionally after Carole Lombard's death four years earlier: Niven tells Gable to kneel at Primmie's feet and cry as he holds and comforts her. Niven also stated that Arthur Miller, author of The Misfits, has described Gable as "a man who does not know how to hate."
Gable has been criticized for changing the critical aspect of the script when he feels that the script will not match his image. Scriptwriter Larry Gelbart, as quoted by James Garner once stated that Gable, "... will not come down with a submarine [referring to Run Silent Run Deep (1958), where the movie ends differently from the book which is basically], because Gable does not drown. "
Eli Wallach, in his autobiography, also stated that Wallach's most dramatic scene in The Misfits was cut from the film after being filmed for several shots. This scene depicts the character of Wallach (who secretly loves the character played by Marilyn Monroe) who is emotionally destroyed when she visits him, hopes to propose it, and instead sees it with a Gable character. Both Gable and Monroe are not on screen, and Wallach's heartbreak is shown by him dropping the bouquet of roses he carries for him. Gable ordered the scene was removed because he felt that his character would never steal a woman from another man. Wallach, however, refrains from criticizing Gable, noting that he is professional and considerate in his behavior.
Movieography
Gable is known to have appeared in addition to 13 films between 1924 and 1930. He later appeared in a total of 67 films released theatrically, as himself in 17 short "subject films", and he was narrated and appeared in World War II. a propaganda film entitled Combat America , produced by the United States Air Force Air Force.
In popular culture
Warner Bros cartoon is sometimes classified as gable. Examples include Have You Got Any Castles? (where his face appears seven times in the novel The House of the Seven Gables ), The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (where his ear fills himself) Hollywood Steps Out (where she follows a mysterious woman), and Cats Do not Dance where she appears on a billboard promotion for Gone With The Wind >.
The 2003 album Give Up by the electronic band The Postal Service included a song titled "Clark Gable". The song's narrator says he wants love like something in the movie and includes the lyrics "I kissed you with a style that Clark Gable would admire, I think it's a classic."
In the 1938 Broadway Melody movie Judy Garland (15 years old) sang "You Made Me Love You" while looking at a composite image of Gable. The opening line is: "Dear Mr. Gable, I am writing this for you, and I hope you will read it so you will know, my heart is beating like a hammer, and I stammer and I stammer, every time I see you in the picture exhibit, I think I am just a fan of you, and I think I will write and tell you You make me love you I do not want to do it I do not want to do it I t... "
Bugy Bunny's shaky exile position, as described by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett, comes from a scene in the movie It Happened One Night, where the character of Clark Gable is leaning on the fence. , eat carrots quickly and talk full mouth to the character Claudette Colbert. This scene is famous when the movie is popular, and viewers at that time may recognize the behavior of Bugs Bunny as satire.
Gable telah digambarkan dalam film oleh James Brolin di Gable dan Lombard (1976), Larry Pennell di Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980), Edward Winter di Moviola : The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), Boyd Holister di Grace Kelly (1983), Gary Wayne di Malice in Wonderland (1985), Gene Daily dalam The Rocketeer (1991), Bruce Hughes dan Shayne Greenman dalam Blonde (2001), dan Charles Unwin dalam Lucy (2003).
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