Magic Lantern Video & Book StoreClark Gable
[1901-1960]
![studio portrait of 'handsome devil' actor Clark Gable [1901-60] in the late 1950s](images/ClarkGable-portrait.jpg "studio portrait of 'handsome devil' actor Clark Gable [1901-60] in the late 1950s") | short profile |
“Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames [that] I'm supposed to have jumped on,
I'd have had no time to go fishing.” — Clark Gable
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served in the U.S.A.A.F. First Motion Picture Unit during World War II
Gable & Lombard often stayed at the Estrella Inn in Palm Springs?
Clark Gable entry at Wikipedia
Clark Gable credits [1923-61] at Internet Movie Database
 ![Best Actor Oscar for "It Happened One Night" [1934]](images/oscar_sm.gif){kind=small} | Clark Gable won a Best Actor Oscar for "It Happened One Night" [1934] and was nominated two other times (1936 & 1940) He also received |
Movies of Clark Gable
Clark Gable credits [1923-61] at Internet Movie Database
Clark Gable Filmography at Wikipedia
 | "Clark Gable: The Signature Collection" [2006]
Warner Home Video color/b&w DVD box set [6/2006] 6 disks for $53.99 contains "Dancing Lady" [1933] with Joan Crawford & Franchot Tone; "China Seas" [1935] with Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery & Rosalind Russell; "Wife vs. Secretary" [Feb 1936] with Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy & James Stewart; "San Francisco" [June 1936] directed by W.S. Van Dyke, with Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy & Jack Holt; "Boom Town" [1940] with Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert & Hedy Lamarr; and "Mogambo" [1953] directed by John Ford; starring Clark Gable, Grace Kelly & Ava Gardner |
 | "Clark Gable Collection, Volume 1" DVD Box Set [2006] Fox color DVD set [8/2006] 3 disks for $44.99 contains "Call of the Wild" [1935] directed by William A. Wellman, with Loretta Young & Jack Oakie; "Soldier of Fortune" [May 1955] directed by Edward Dmytryk, with Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie & Gene Barry; and "The Tall Men" [Sept 1955] directed by Raoul Walsh, with Jane Russell & Robert Ryan |
"The Secret Six" [M.G.M. April 1931]
script by Frances Marion; starring Wallace Beery, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow & Clark Gable
"Red Dust" [M.G.M. Oct 1932]
Directed by Victor Fleming; starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond & Mary Astor
remade by Gable & John Ford as "Mogambo" [M.G.M. Oct 1953]
"Hold Your Man" [M.G.M. July 1933]
starring Jean Harlow, Clark Gable & Stuart Erwin
"Dancing Lady" [1933]
starring Clark Gable, Joan Crawford & Franchot Tone
"It Happened One Night" [Columbia Pictures Feb 1934]
the first Oscar 'grand slam': won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress & Best Script
 | The father of a spoiled, spunky socialite annuls her marriage, so she jumps off his yacht and runs away. An out-of-work reporter realizes he has a choice story when he meets her on a cross-country bus, and he trades his silence and help for an exclusive. But during their travels together, they reluctantly fall in love – though neither is able to admit to it. • Produced & directed by Frank Capra [1897-1991]; script by Robert Riskin, based on the novel "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams; starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas, Alan Hale & Ward Bond; listed on National Film Registry, 1993
Criterion Collection all-region 4k HD b&w Blu-ray [1/2014] for $28.95 Sony Special Edition b&w DVD [12/99] for $14.99 Sony b&w VHS [6/94] for $16.99 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [2/2018 upload; 1:22] online at YouTube blue 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $19.99 • black 24"x36" poster from Amazon for $13.99 |
![Night Bus novel [1933] by Samuel Hopkins Adams](covers2/DellNightBusSHA1933.jpg "Night Bus novel [1933] by Samuel Hopkins Adams") | "Night Bus" novel [1933] by Samuel Hopkins Adams [1871-1958], Cover Art By Sandor Klein The novelette or short story was first published in the August 1933 Cosmopolitan Magazine Fiction Issue, then published as Dell paperback #3, also in 1933. (Magazine not found on Amazon, the paperback is quite rare.) Dell #3 mass pb [1933] out of print/scarce author entry at Wikipedia |
"Call of the Wild" [Aug 1935] directed by William A. Wellman
starring Clark Gable, Loretta Young & Jack Oakie
"China Seas" [M.G.M. Aug 1935]
starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery & Rosalind Russell
"Wife vs. Secretary" [M.G.M. Feb 1936]
starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy & James Stewart
"San Francisco" [M.G.M. June 1936]
 | Directed by W.S. Van Dyke; starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy & Jack Holt; with a cameo by D.W. Griffith {as the orchestra conductor}; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor (Tracy), Best AD, won for Best Sound
Warner Home Video b&w DVD [6/2006] for $17.99 Warner Video color VHS [11/90] for $14.95 Great Music Themes soundtrack CD [11/97] out of print/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Saratoga" [M.G.M. July 1937]
starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon & Una Merkel
"Too Hot To Handle" [M.G.M./Loew's Sept 1938]
 | One of MGM's biggest hits of the year. When a sly newsreel reporter in China meets a female pilot, he gets her hired as his assistant; but she doesn't trust him until their assignment in South America.
Directed by Jack Conway; starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo Carrillo, Johnny Hines, Virginia Weidler, Betty Ross Clarke, Henry Kolker, Marjorie Main, Chris-Pin Martin & Gregory Gaye
Warner Bros. Archive Collection b&w DVD [6/2009] for $21.99 M.G.M. Home Video b&w VHS [9/98] for $9.95 full credits at IMDb |
"Gone With The Wind"
[Selznick/M.G.M. Dec 1939]
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| Beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara loses her first love, and takes up with renegade Rhett Butler at the start of the War Between The States; she refuses to admit her love for Rhett and eventually loses him and her beloved Tara plantation.
Produced by David O. Selznick; directed by Victor Fleming; starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Evelyn Keyes, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Victor Jory, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond & Yakima Canutt; won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Color Cinematography, Best Actress [VL], Best Supporting Actress [HM], Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, Honorary Oscar for "outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood"; Oscar nominations for Best Actor [Gable], Best Supporting Actress [OdH], Best Special Effects, Best Music Score [Max Steiner] & Best Sound; listed on National Film Registry (1989)
Warner 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition color Blu-ray [DUE Nov 2009] pre-order for $56.49 Warner 70th Anniversary Limited Edition color DVD [DUE Nov 2009] pre-order for $45.49 Warner Collector's Edition color DVD set [11/2004] 4 disks for $27.99 Warner Special Edition color DVD [1/2006] 2 disks for $13.99 Warner color VHS [3/2000] 2 tapes - out of prodn/many used Rhino/WEA soundtrack CD [6/97] for $11.98 full credits from IMDb |
more "G.W.T.W." stuff (synopsis, books, posters, official websites, sequels, links) on
Magic Lantern's "Gone With The Wind" 1939 Movie Page
"Strange Cargo" [March 1940]
directed by Frank Borzage, starring Clark Gable, Ian Hunter & Peter Lorre
"Boom Town" [Aug 1940]
starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert & Hedy Lamarr
During World War II, Clark Gable enlisted in August 1942 and served as a turret gunner in combat
with the Eighth Air Force in Europe; transfered to the U.S.A.A.F. First Motion Picture Unit in November 1943
(to complete the film "Combat America"); and resigned his commission at the rank of Major in June 1944.
"Adventure" [1945]
'Gable's Back ! And Garson's Got Him !'
Directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell & Thomas Mitchell
"The Hucksters" [1947]
"Command Decision" [1948]
"To Please A Lady" [1950]
starring Clark Gable & Barbara Stanwyck /tt0043052/
"Mogambo" [M.G.M. Oct 1953]
directed by John Ford; starring Clark Gable, Grace Kelly & Ava Gardner;
remake of Gable's "Red Dust" [1932];
full credits from IMDb
"Soldier of Fortune" [May 1955]
directed by Edward Dmytryk,
starring Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie & Gene Barry
"The Tall Men" [Sept 1955] directed by Raoul Walsh,
starring Clark Gable, Jane Russell & Robert Ryan
"The King and Four Queens" [1956]
directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Clark Gable & Eleanor Parker
"Band of Angels" [1957] directed by Raoul Walsh,
starring Clark Gable, Yvonne DeCarlo & Sidney Portier
"Run Silent, Run Deep" [1958]
starring Clark Gable & Burt lancaster
"The Misfits" [1961]
Directed by John Huston; written by Arthur Miller [1915-2005]; starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe,
Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter & Eli Wallach;
videos/DVDs • credits from IMDb
Works by Clark Gable
A lot of film was shot on Gable’s time in England; it was sent back to M.G.M. Studios where editor Blanche Sewell cut it into a story; the product was called ‘Blanche Tried’.
"Combat America" [U.S.A.A.F. Sept 1944]
 | 62-minute Technicolor documentary made by then-Lieutenant Clark Gable featuring the men of the U.S.A.A.F. 351st Bombardment Group between combat missions over Germany from an R.A.F. base in England; post-production was done by Gable on assignment at F.M.P.U. / Fort Roach. Produced, directed & narrated by and starring 1Lt. Clark Gable; cameos by Gen. 'Hap' Arnold & Bob Hope
Alpha Video 102-min. DVD [6/2009] for $7.98 Periscope Film 110-min. Deluxe Edition DVD [4/2007] for $24.99 Good Times Video b&w DVD [5/2001] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia hour-long online version at Google Video |
Works About Clark Gable
"Broadway Melody of 1938" [1937]
| 15-year-old Judy Garland sings "You Made Me Love You" while looking at a picture of Clark Gable; the opening lines are: "Dear Mr. Gable, I am writing this to you, and I hope that you will read it so you'll know, my heart beats like a hammer, and I stutter and I stammer, every time I see you at the picture show, I guess I'm just another fan of yours, and I thought I'd write and tell you so. You made me love you, I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it . . . " |
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"Gable & Lombard & Powell & Harlow" [1975] by Joe Morella & Edward Z. Epstein "The initmately revealing story of four romantically intertwined lives in a gawdy, golden Hollywood era when real-life passions outdid anything on the screen" Dell mass pb [1975] out of print/used Dell mass pb [1975] out of print/used W.H. Allen / Virgin Books hardcover [3/76] out of print/used see also Magic Lantern's Jean Harlow [1911-37] Page |
"Gable: The King Remembered" [1975 TV movie] /title/tt0440410/
"Gable & Lombard" feature film [1976]
Portrayed by James Brolin;
full credits from IMDb
"The Scarlett O'Hara War" [1980] Portrayed by Edward Winter
"Marilyn: The Untold Story" [1980] Portrayed by Larry Pennell
"Grace Kelly" [1983] Portrayed by Boyd Holister
"Malice In Wonderland" [1985] Portrayed by Gary Wayne
 | "Hollywood Sex Symbols" [1988 video release]
Some Amazon reviewers of the VHS edition suggest poor quality reproduction of press material, but the probable rarity of the clips may be of interest to some fans. Stars covered include Theda Bara, Brigette Bardot, Charles Chaplin, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Rita Hayworth, Sophia Loren, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, Tyrone Power, Elvis Presley, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Taylor, Rudolph Valentino & Mae West Front Row Ent. color/b&w DVD [12/2007] for $19.98 Front Row Ent. color/b&w VHS [undated] out of print/used full credits at IMDb |
 | "Clark Gable: God Save The King" [A&E Biography 1991] A & E Home Video b&w/color VHS [undated] out of prodn/scarce not listed at IMDb |
 | "When The Stars Went To War: Hollywood & World War II" [1994] by Roy Hoopes Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [12/94] out of print/many used Chapter 8 specifically addresses the service of eight movie stars who served in the military: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Robert Montgomery, James Stewart, Sterling Hayden, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Tyrone Power & Wayne Morris – but other stars (male and female) are mentioned throughout the book. |
 | "Tomorrow Is Another Day" [1995 novel] by Stuart M. Kaminsky
In 1943, movie star Clark Gable receives a list of past and future murder victims, all seemingly linked by being present at the filming of the all-night 'burning of Atlanta' scene for "Gone With The Wind" at the Hal Roach Studios backlot in 1938. Gable hires detective Toby Peters, who soon discovers that an extra was murdered with a sword during the filming, and the killing was covered up. Warner Books mass pb [1/96] out of print/used Mysterious Press 8½x5½ hardcover [2/95] out of print/many used |
"Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome" [1996] /title/tt0168590/
"Blonde" [2001] Portrayed by Bruce Hughes & Shayne Greenman
"Clark Gable: Biography, Filmography, Bibliography" [McFarland & Co. 2002]
by Chrystopher Spicer ISBN 0-7864-1124-4.
"Lucy" [2003] Portrayed by Charles Unwin
"Clark Gable and Carole Lombard" (2003) (TV) /title/tt0372213/
"Biography: Clark Gable, The King of Hollywood" (2003) /title/tt0369198/
 | "LIFE: Great Romances, Volume 2" [2003] looks at couples Clark Gable & Carole Lombard, Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford, Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, Greta Garbo & John Gilbert, and Grace Kelly & Prince Rainier Madacy Records b&w/color DVD [1/2003] for $14.40 complete set on 4 disks Madacy Records b&w/color DVD set [1/2003] 4 disks for $35.99 |
 | "The Leading Men of M-G-M" [2005] by Jane Ellen Wayne
This companion book to Wayne's sleazy gossip tome "The Golden Girls of M-G-M" [2002] covers fourteen male stars & execs of M.G.M.: Clark Gable, John Gilbert, Billy Haines, Van Johnson, Peter Lawford, Louis B. Mayer, Ramon Novarro, Elvis Presley, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Robert Taylor, Irving Thalberg & Spencer Tracy Da Capo Press 8¾x6 pb [4/2006] for $13.73 Da Capo Press 9x6½ hardcover [2/2005] for $26.00 |
"Clark Gable: Tormented Star" [Carroll & Graf 2007] by David Bret ISBN 078672093X
"Gable and Crawford" [2008 video release] /title/tt1192872/
new book "Clark Gable In Pictures"
Family Members
William Clark Gable was born 1 February 1901 in Ohio and died in November 1960 in Hollywood.
first wife Josephine Dillon Gable [1884-1971] - married December 1924, divorced April 1930
second wife Maria Langham 'Ria' Franklin Prentiss Lucas Gable [1884-1966]
married July 1931, separated November 1935, divorced March 1939
third wife Carole Lombard Powell Gable [1908-42] - married March 1939, died January 1942
fourth wife Sylvia Ashley Fairbanks Stanley Gable Djordjadze [1904-1977]
widow of Douglas Fairbanks 1939, married December 1949, divorced April 1952
fifth wife Kay Williams Spreckels Gable [1917-83]
married July 1955, widowed November 1960
Judy Young Lewis Tinney {secret daughter of Loretta Young & Clark Gable; born Nov 1935, died 2011}
http://www.judy--lewis.com/ + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Lewis + http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507395/
"Uncommon Knowledge" autobiography [Pocket/S&S 1994] ISBN 0-671-70019-7
John Clark Gable {son of Clark Gable & Kay Spreckels, born March 1961}
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0300095/bio
Photo Gallery
 Clark Gable giving up his moustache at O.C.S in Florida in August 1942 (tall cadet at left is Victor Clark, whose son William Clark contributed original of this {cropped} JPG-file |
![cover version of common cast & crew photo from John Huston's "The Misfits" [1961]](images/stillHustonsMisfitscast&crew-color.jpg)
front row: actors Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable; second row: actor Eli Wallach, director John Huston; third row: producer Frank Taylor, author Arthur Miller |
L i n k s
Clark Gable entry at Wikipedia
Clark Gable credits [1923-61] at Internet Movie Database
Clark Gable credits [1928-30] at Internet Broadway Database
browse Clark Gable on DVD at Amazon
DMK's 'Clark Gable, The Unforgettable King' fansite
'Centennial Tribute To Clark Gable' fansite
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