Vintage Hollywood

Clark Gable

~The King of Hollywood~

Name: William Clark Gable
Birth: February  1, 1901 (Cadiz, Ohio - U.S.)
Death: November 16, 1960 (Los Angeles, California - U.S.)
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1918 - 1960
Notable work: GONE WITH THE WIND          {Victor Fleming}
                          IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT {Frank Capra}
                          MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY {Frank Lloyd}
             CALL OF THE WILD
              {William A. Wellman}
Spouse(s): -Josephine Dillon  1924/1930
                      -Maria Langham  1931/1939
                      -Carole Lombard  1939/1942
                      -Sylvia Ashley  1949/1952
                      -Kai Williams  1955/1960
Children: John Clark Gable
                    Judy Lewis
Service: Army Air Forces
Rank: Major
War: World War II
Years of service: 1942 -1944

Gifted with great charm, charisma and a strong stage presence, from the thirties until his death, he was one of the greatest stars of world cinema.

~He was a king wherever he went. He earned the title. He walked like one, he behaved like one, and he was the most masculine man that I have ever met in my life. Gable had balls.~ Joan Crawford

~Gable was a great, great guy, and certainly one of the great stars of all times, if not the greatest. I think that I sincerely doubt that there will ever be another like Clark Gable; he was one of a kind.~ Robert Taylor

~ He was as masculine as any man I've ever known, and as much a little boy as a grown man could be – it was this combination that had such a devastating effect on women.~ Doris Day

▪︎It Happened One Night is the real Gable. He was never able to play that kind of character except in that one film. They had him playing these big, huff-and-puff he-man lovers, but he was not that kind of guy. He was a down-to-earth guy, he loved everything, he got down with the common people. He didn't want to play those big lover parts; he just wanted to play Clark Gable, the way he was in It Happened One Night, and it's too bad they didn't let him keep up with that.▪︎

*AFI's 100 years...100 stars*

7th male legend

1933

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)

Curiosity: The mustache is his distinctive feature.
                  The love of his life was Carole Lombard.
                  He was considered a great seducer      and also a sex symbol in the 1930s.