Clark Gable: A BiographyClark Gable arrived in Hollywood 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, including the great love of his life, Carole Lombard. In this well-researched and revealing biography, Warren G. Harris gives an exceptionally acute portrait of one of the most memorable actors in the history of motion pictures—whose intimates included such legends as Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, Loretta Young, David O. Selznick, Jean Harlow, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, and Grace Kelly—as well as a vivid sense of the glamour and excess of mid-century Hollywood. |
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CLARK GABLE: A Biography
Recenzja użytkownika - KirkusVeteran Hollywood biographer Harris, who wrote Gable and Lombard in 1974, now gives Clark Gable a thoroughly engaging bio all to himself.Born in 1901, the only child of an oil speculator in rural Ohio ... Przeczytaj pełną recenzję
Clark Gable: a biography
Recenzja użytkownika - Not Available - Book VerdictA recent trend in Hollywood biographies is to abandon the tabloid style in favor of a more scholarly approach. These two new biographies on Clark Gable follow this trend. Harris (Gable and Lombard ... Przeczytaj pełną recenzję
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Hollywood Extra | 28 |
From Stock to Broadway | 42 |
The Lion Roars | 63 |
The Great God Gable | 79 |
Snapping Garters Everywhere | 96 |
Poverty Row and Back li | 125 |
No Oscar for Rhett | 210 |
The Hollywood Victory Committee | 227 |
Table Rock Mountain 248 | 248 |
Air Force Officer | 266 |
New Companions | 284 |
Lady Sylvia Moves In | 318 |
The Fifth Mrs Gable | 336 |
Expectant Father | 354 |
1O Too Many Women | 140 |
Lovebirds | 156 |
A Death and an Adoption 76 | 195 |
The End of a Golden Era | 375 |
Filmography | 392 |
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