Clark Gable: A BiographyHarmony Books, 2002 - 408 There really was a Hollywood, a place of fashionable men and gorgeous women and the all-powerful studio system that allowed them to defy the conventions that governed the rest of the country. Clark Gable arrived there after a rough-and-tumble youth, and his breezy, big-boned, everyman persona quickly made him the town's "King." He was a gambler among gamblers, a heavy drinker in the days when everyone drank seemingly all the time, and a lover to legions of the most attractive women in the most glamorous business in the world. In this well-researched and revealing biography, Warren G. Harris gives us an exceptionally acute portrait of one of the most memorable actors in the history of motion pictures, as well as a sure sense of the milieu and the times of mid-century Hollywood. More than anything else, one is struck by the romance of the era--the glamour and the excess, the playfulness and the lust. The people who were Gable's intimates are legends in their own right: Loretta Young, Marion Davies, David O. Selznick, Jean Harlow, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, Grace Kelly, and the list goes on and on. Clark Gable reveals newly uncovered information about Gable's illegitimate daughter, his relationship with Joan Crawford, and his great love for Carole Lombard, his third wife. |
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... Winkler , the MGM staff publicist who handled all of his dealings with the press , to find some remote spot that was a bit nearer to Hollywood than Timbuktu . Winkler finally hit on Kingman , Arizona , a small town with a population of ...
... Winkler , the MGM staff publicist who handled all of his dealings with the press , to find some remote spot that was a bit nearer to Hollywood than Timbuktu . Winkler finally hit on Kingman , Arizona , a small town with a population of ...
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... Winkler like a brother and considered himself responsible for his death . They first met in 1937 , when Winkler was a Herald - Examiner reporter assigned to cover the Violet Norton paternity trial . Gable liked Winkler's coverage and ...
... Winkler like a brother and considered himself responsible for his death . They first met in 1937 , when Winkler was a Herald - Examiner reporter assigned to cover the Violet Norton paternity trial . Gable liked Winkler's coverage and ...
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... Winkler's wife would be able to get a bigger cash settlement , the opposite was true . Gable persuaded Jill Winkler to waive her right to sue the airline by promising to build her a house and to also provide her with a $ 100,000 annuity ...
... Winkler's wife would be able to get a bigger cash settlement , the opposite was true . Gable persuaded Jill Winkler to waive her right to sue the airline by promising to build her a house and to also provide her with a $ 100,000 annuity ...
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