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First Name

Clark

Last Name

Gable

Birthday

1901-02-01

Height

Build

Athletic

Eye Color

Grey

Hair Color

Brown - Dark

Birthplace

Cadiz, Ohio, USA

Zodiac Sign

Aquarius

Died

1960-11-16

Place of Death

Los Angeles, California

Cause of Death

Heart Failure

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Roman Catholic

Claim to Fame

Gone With the Wind

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

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Clark Gable`s mother died when he was seven months old. At 16 he quit high school, went to work in an Akron (Ohio) tire factory and decided to become an actor after seeing the play "The Bird of Paradise". He toured in stock companies, worked oil fields and sold ties. In 1924 he reached Hollywood with the help of Portland, Oregon, theatre manager Josephine Dillon, who coached and later married him (she was 17 years his senior). After playing a few bit parts he returned to the stage, becoming lifelong friends with Lionel Barrymore. After several failed screen tests (for Barrymore and Darryl F. Zanuck), Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM`s Irving Thalberg. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) and the public loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (1931) the same year. His unshaven lovemaking with bra-less Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932) made him MGM`s most important star. At one point he refused an assignment and the studio punished him by loaning him out to (at the time) low-rent Columbia Pictures, which put him in Frank Capra`s It Happened One Night (1934), which won him an Oscar. He returned to far more substantial roles at MGM, such as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939). When his third wife Carole Lombard died in a plane crash returning from a War Bond drive, a grief-stricken Gable joined the US Army Air Force and was off the screen for three years, flying combat missions in Europe. When he returned the studio regarded his salary as excessive and did not renew his contract. He freelanced, but his films didn`t do well at the box office. He announced during filming of The Misfits (1961) that, for the first time, he was to become a father. Two months later he died of a heart attack. He was laid to rest beside Carole Lombard at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Official Websites

www.classicmoviefavorites.com/gable/, cinemaclassic.free.fr/clark/clark.htm, www.tcmdb.com/participant.jsp?participantId=67232, www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=373, judy--lewis.com/

Full Name at Birth

William Clark Gable

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Stage & Screen

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William Wellman, Spencer Tracy, Ward Bond, Andy Devine, Victor Fleming, Keenan Wynn, Joan Crawford, Howard Hawks, William Faulkner, Ava Gardner, Shug Keeler, David Niven, William Powell, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Lucille Ball, Cedric Gibbons, Dolores Del Rio, Hattie McDaniel, Eugene Pallette, Harry Fleishman, Andrew McIntyre, Robert Wagner, Jane Russell, Art Rooney, William Holden

Favorite Foods

Chicken And Dumplings, Bratwurst And Sauerkraut, Baked Beans, Steak, Raw Onion, Peppermints, Chocolate Cake

Favorite People

William Shakespeare (Author)

Biography (Print)

Clark Gable: A Biography [2005] (warren g. harris), Clark Gable;: A personal portrait [1961] (Kathleen Williams Gable), Clark Gable - The King of Hollywood [2008]

Father

William Henry Gable

Mother

Adeline Hershelman

Family Member

Judy Lewis (daughter), John Clark Gable (son)

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Occupation Text

Actor

Friend

Jean Harlow, Ronald Colman, Benita Hume, Franchot Tone, Ross Alexander

Wikipedia Text

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Though arguably best known for his role as Rhett Butler in the epic Gone with the Wind (1939), which earned him his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, he was also nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and he won for It Happened One Night (1934). His other notable films include Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and The Misfits (1961).

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