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Jun 23, 2022 · Gable soon experienced a health crisis, suffering a heart attack on November 6. The star was taken to the hospital for treatment, and he seemed to be doing okay. But only 10 days later, Gable died suddenly in his bed at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.
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William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Often referred to as the "King of Hollywood", [2] he had roles in more than 60 films in a variety of genres during a career that lasted 37 years, three decades of which was as a leading man.
Nov 17, 2016 · Clark Gable died at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital Wednesday at 11 p.m. The 59-year-old star had been hospitalized since he was stricken with a heart attack Nov. 6.
Feb 26, 2019 · DALLAS (AP) — Clark James Gable III, host of the reality TV show “Cheaters” and grandson of late Academy Award-winning actor Clark Gable, has died in Texas. The Dallas County Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science says the 30-year-old Gable died Friday at a Dallas hospital.
- His Break Came Through Stage Acting
- He Had An Affair with Actress Joan Crawford
- Gone with The Wind Propelled Him to Stardom
- His Wife Was Killed in A Plane Crash
- His Career Waned After The War
- He and Marilyn Monroe appeared in A Film Together Shortly Before They Both Died
- His Use of Amphetamines Worsened His Ill Health
Gable was born in Ohio in 1901. After dropping out of school at sixteen, he saw his first theatrical production and set his heart on becoming an actor. At 21, he moved to Portland. There, he met his first wife, acting coach Josephine Dillon. After sharpening her new husband’s acting talents, Dillon took Gable to Hollywood. Despite securing several ...
His newfound success coincided with the demise of his first marriage. Gable and Dillion divorced in 1930 and Gable married wealthy socialite Maria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham. On screen he starred with the biggest female stars of the day: Greta Garbo, Mary Astor, Jean Harlow and Joan Crawford, the latter with whom he embarked on a passionate af...
Now at the apex of his stardom, in 1939 Gable was cast as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. Producer David O. Selznick was so desperate to cast Gable in the role that he made an extremely expensive deal with MGM to release him to them, by even agreeing to pay MGM a share of the film’s profits. The lengthy search for an actress to play the film’s ...
In 1939, Gable married for a third time to the actress Carole Lombard, who he found to be enjoyably frank and outspoken. The marriage was a happy one, and was often cited as the most contented period of Gable’s life. However, it was short-lived. In January 1942, Lombard was killed in an air crash whilst travelling home from a war bond drive. The lo...
His initial return to Hollywood as a bonafide war hero was met with huge enthusiasm. Gradually, however, Gable’s stardom began to wane. His fourth marriage, to Lady Sylvia Ashley, whom many thought bore a striking resemblance to Lombard, ended in divorce three years later. In 1955 he also parted ways with MGM. Gable continued to make films througho...
It was through his final performance, in John Huston’s The Misfits, that audiences were once more reminded of the acting prowess of theirfading screen icon. Written by Arthur Miller for his then-wife Marilyn Monroe, the film is a melancholy drama set in the sparse expanses of the Nevada desert. The film ends with Gable and Monroe’s characters, Gay ...
Gable’s health was already in decline when filming for The Misfitsbegan in 1961. This was no doubt compounded by his use of amphetamines to lose weight for the role and his insistence on doing all of his own stunts. Two days after filming wrapped, Gable suffered a major heart attack. He was rushed to hospital but died ten days later from coronary t...
Sep 3, 2010 · In the death scene that followed, she couldn’t keep her eyelids from fluttering and wore a death mask when Gable picked her up. She was so frightened when the mask was being made, her...
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Jul 14, 2021 - "This is a contemporary casting direct from an original and very rare and vintage life mask of acting legend Clark Gable. The original casting came directly from MGM's make-up department and Oscar winning make-up artist William Tuttle (1912-2007).
