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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... role of a Salvation Army officer who saves Crawford from degrading herself in an affair with a traveling salesman . The ludicrous story may have been part of the reason previewers roared , but director Harry Beaumont took advantage of ...
... role of a Salvation Army officer who saves Crawford from degrading herself in an affair with a traveling salesman . The ludicrous story may have been part of the reason previewers roared , but director Harry Beaumont took advantage of ...
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... role . The one I'd really like to play is Rhett , " she said . Gable , meanwhile , neither wanted nor liked the role . “ The public interest in my playing Rhett puzzled me , " he later recalled . “ I was the only one , apparently , who ...
... role . The one I'd really like to play is Rhett , " she said . Gable , meanwhile , neither wanted nor liked the role . “ The public interest in my playing Rhett puzzled me , " he later recalled . “ I was the only one , apparently , who ...
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... role and predicted it would ruin his career . He told her to butt out . If he rejected the job , he'd be suspended without pay , and they'd have to start economizing to com- pensate for the $ 250,000 that went to his replacement . Not ...
... role and predicted it would ruin his career . He told her to butt out . If he rejected the job , he'd be suspended without pay , and they'd have to start economizing to com- pensate for the $ 250,000 that went to his replacement . Not ...
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