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Clark Gable
William Clark Gable was an American actor often referred to as the "King of Hollywood". He appeared in more than 60 motion pictures across a variety of genres during a 37-year career, three decades of which he spent as a leading man. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gable as the seventh-greatest male screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema.
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Born 1 February 1901 · Died 16 November 1960 · Q71243
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2026· 2 entries
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2025· 1 entry
AOL: Clark Gable's Spouses: All About the King of Hollywood's 5 Marriages
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Clark Gable's Favorite Martini Hack Is One You Might Want To Try
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2022· 2 entries
autoevolution: Stories about: Clark Gable
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autoevolution: Clark Gable's 1952 Jaguar XK120 Is Gone With the Wind for $311,111
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2020· 1 entry
The Cheat Sheet: ‘Gone With the Wind’ Star Clark Gable Had a Secret Child
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2019· 1 entry
Yahoo: Clark Gable III Dies: TV Host, Clark Gable Grandson Was 30
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2015· 1 entry
Young's daughter-in-law alleged that Young had said in 1998 that Lewis was conceived by date rape
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2002· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Clark Gable killed a pedestrian while driving drunk, but MGM covered up the accident and sent another man to jail in his place.” False.
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“You have to pass a physical to film that”
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2001· 1 entry
Won Golden Boot Awards (2001).
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1999· 1 entry
The American Film Institute ranked Gable as the seventh-greatest male screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema
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1961· 1 entry
It was a somewhat disconnected film with its antihero western themes, but it has since become a classic
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1960· 4 entries
Died 1960-11-16.
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Gable was sent to Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, where doctors found that he had suffered a heart attack
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Gable received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in motion pictures, located at 1608 Vine Street
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“The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great — and they know I know it.”
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1955· 3 entries
Gable would be 10th at the box office – the last time he was in the top ten
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Gable married Kay Spreckels (née Kathleen Williams), a thrice-married former fashion model and actress who had previously been married to the son of Adolph B
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A production company with Jane Russell and her husband Bob Waterfield, and they produced The King and Four Queens (1956), a film Gable thought would also star Russell to capitalize on The Tall Men's moderate success
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1951· 1 entry
Amid slumping revenue and increased Hollywood production costs, due in large part to the rising popularity of television
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1950· 1 entry
Gable came to Young's house for a brief visit
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1949· 2 entries
Gable married Sylvia Ashley, an English model and actress who was the widow of Douglas Fairbanks; the couple divorced in 1952
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Gable married Sylvia Ashley, a British model and actress previously married to Douglas Fairbanks Sr
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1947· 1 entry
A week after the Air Force became an independent service branch
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1945· 1 entry
While filming "Adventure" for Victor Fleming, Gable proposed marriage to his co-star Joan Blondell, which she declined
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1944· 2 entries
His discharge papers were signed by Captain (later U
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Gable became an early member of the conservative Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a group explicitly created to help root out communists from the film industry
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1943· 1 entry
Gable reported to Biggs Army Airfield, Texas to train with and accompany the 351st Bomb Group to England as head of a six-man motion picture unit
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1942· 4 entries
And were commissioned as second lieutenants
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Shortly after his enlistment, he and McIntyre were sent to Miami Beach, Florida, where they entered USAAF OCS Class 42-E
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Following Lombard's death and his completion of the film Somewhere I'll Find You, Gable joined the United States Army, under the Army Air Forces
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Lombard was a passenger on Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 3 with her mother and press agent Otto Winkler
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1939· 1 entry
To his third wife, actress Carole Lombard (1908–1942), was one of the happiest periods of his personal life
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1935· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night (1935).
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1933· 2 entries
Though delayed in release due to pre-Code Legion of Decency cuts until 1934
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Gable was initiated into Freemasonry at the Beverly Hills Lodge No
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1931· 2 entries
In California and divorced on March 7, 1939
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Possibly due to differences in state legal requirements
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1930· 2 entries
By MGM's Irving Thalberg for $650 per week (equivalent to approximately $13,761 in 2025)
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After his impressive appearance as the seething and desperate character Killer Mears in the Los Angeles stage production of The Last Mile, Gable was offered a contract with Pathé Pictures
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1924· 1 entry
In California, Gable was 23 and Dillon was 40; the couple divorced in 1930
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1920· 1 entry
His father moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, going back into the oil business
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1917· 1 entry
And decided to try his hand at farming, and moved the family to Palmyra Township, near Akron, Ohio
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1901· 2 entries
Born 1901-02-01.
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In Cadiz, Ohio, to William Henry "Will" Gable (1870–1948), an oil-well driller, and his wife Adeline (née Hershelman)
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