It Happened One Night
1934
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May 17, 2020 · Getty Images. Clark Gable Died of Stroke Days after Saying Marilyn Monroe Nearly Gave Him a Heart Attack. By Rebelander Basilan. May 17, 2020 07:30 A.M. Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe's final film was "The Misfits" in 1961. On the last day of filming, Gable said that he's happy the picture was done. Advertisement.
Oct 12, 2018 · Home > 2018. A historical look at Clark Gable's fatal heart attack. Harold Smulyan, MD (photo by Jim Howe) Movie star Clark Gable was just 59 when he died of a heart attack in 1960, on the cusp of major changes in the understanding and treatment of coronary heart disease.
- Who Was Clark Gable?
- Early Life and Career
- Hollywood Stardom and Movies
- Later Career and Death
- Personal Life
Actor Clark Gable initially had a hard time getting Hollywood roles due to his big ears. However, after signing with MGM, he was cast alongside stars like Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, and his popularity soared. He hit box-office gold with such films as It Happened One Night and Gone with the Wind. His final film, The Misfits, was also Marilyn Mon...
William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901, in Cadiz, Ohio. His father was an oil driller and farmer; his mother died when he was an infant. Gable dropped out of high school at 16 and went to work at a tire factory in Akron, Ohio. One evening he saw a play and enjoyed it so much that he decided to become an actor. He tried to work his way in ...
Gable worked as an extra in Hollywood before turning his attention to the theater, first in traveling productions and then in the Broadway play Machinal, for which he got good reviews. After it wrapped, he returned back to California and appeared in a stage production of The Last Mile. Back in Hollywood, Gable was rejected at screen tests because c...
After his discharge in 1944, he returned to the big screen in Adventure. Though it was a lackluster flick, Gable’s return to film had people flocking to the box office. He continued to make movies with MGM, including Mogambo with Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly, but his career never regained the same momentum. Still, when his studio contract expired in...
Gable was a ladies’ man both on and off-screen, and he was married five times over the course of his life. His wives included his first theater director Josephine Dillon, socialite Rhea Langham (Maria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham), actress Carole Lombard, Lady Sylvia Ashley and actress Kay Williams Spreckels. Spreckels and Gable had one son, Joh...
3811 x 2539 px (12.70 x 8.46 in) - 300 dpi - 4 MB. Spectators at the funeral of American film actor Clark Gable at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images.
Nov 3, 2022 · Studio publicity photo of Clark Gable. Clark Gable, the ‘King of Hollywood’ and icon of the Golden Age of cinema, died on 16 November 1960 in Los Angeles. His death came just weeks after he finished shooting The Misfits, which also marked the last screen appearance of his co-star Marilyn Monroe.
Frankly, my dear, Clark Gable still sets hearts a-flutter. But how did the "King of Hollywood's" off-screen struggles with alcohol, divorce, and personal tra...
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Aug 15, 2021 · A donation of historical photos shows Clark Gable, the King of Hollywood, training as a turret gunner in 1943 in Spokane. Millions of people around the world know and love Gable from his iconic ...
