Clark Gable & Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard and Clark Gable at Sardi’s, c.1940
Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable, 1936
Carole Lombard and Clark Gable in a candid taken by a fan, 1940
Clark Gable holds his Best Actor Oscar for “It Happened One Night” at the 7th Annual Academy Awards in 1935
Clark Gable and Frank Capra at the 1936 Oscars.
Yes, I’ve been known to like ladies…and I do. But with her, it’s different. Everything about her is different than with any other gal.
Clark Gable photographed by Bob Landry, 1946
“Clark was the least selective lover in the hemisphere. He’d screw anything - a girl didn’t have to be pretty or even clean”
- Billy Grady ( MGM’s casting executive)
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard for No Man of Her Own, 1932
Robert Taylor, Robert Montgomery and Clark Gable in uniform, 1940s
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934
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I was so glad when he married Carole; it was a perfect match. She was so right for him. They both hated anything phony, they both loved life so much… It was so awful, when she was killed in that plane crash. Clark came to me that night when he learned about it.
We didn’t make love—I just held him. He was drunk, he had to get drunk, and he cried like a baby, as though his life had ended, and maybe, in a way, it had.
Joan Crawford
Princess Clark Gable takes a few minutes to gossip with a BFF. “No, Louise, listen—Louise—no but—Louise—she thinks that, like, we don’t notice how desperate she is? And, like, yeah, okay, your dad is a Duke, but how far back can she even trace her nobility? Please. Like, where’s your coat of arms, bitch? And like, if I saw her on the street and didn’t know who she was, I’d totally think she was a villager. And it’s like, did I not just throw a masked ball last month, and, like, what, now she’s having one? It’s just like, ugh, you know what I mean? But I guess I understand, because the only way she could get anyone to come to a ball is by covering her face, so, yeah. But no, I’m totally going. No, I was thinking the little red number with the white pearl earrings. Yeah, I think it’ll look really good.”
Clark Gable on the set of Gone with the Wind (1939)