Porter wondered whether Clark Gable would object to his name being used in the song, in which it is implied that Gable is one of Lois's lovers ("Mister Gable, I mean Clark / Wants me on his boat to park").
He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film It Started in Naples (1960) which starred Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, and Vittorio De Sica.
:"1st Lieutenant Clark Gable is hereby directed to proceed to England ... for making a combat film dealing particularly with the combat phases of aerial gunnery ... ".
The second is that she appeared as an extra in the pre-Code film, Night Nurse (1931), which starred Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable and Joan Blondell.
In addition, the Pioneer Saloon has a small memorial to both Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
40 Years Of Star Trek (2006); The Estate Of Clark Gable (2006); The Estate Of Stan Laurel (2007); The John Lennon Collection of “Magic” Alex Mardas (2004); The Star Wars Collection Of John Mollo (2003); Eric Clapton’s Guitars in aid of the Crossroads Centre (1999 and 2004).
The 1931 film The Finger Points was loosely based on Lingle's life and death, and starred Richard Barthelmess as the reporter, Fay Wray as his love interest, and Clark Gable as the gangster who corrupts him.
Boom Town the 1940 epic film about wildcatting in the early oil industry, and about those maverick 'wildcatters' turned loose upon windswept plains of Oklahoma, starred Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy as oilmen.
From that film, Mauricio adopted the artistic last name "Garcés" believing the letter "G" would bring good luck and turn him into a star at the level of his idols Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant.
The 1935 version of The Call of the Wild with Clark Gable, Loretta Young and Jack Oakie was filmed on location in Mount Baker National Forest because Twentieth Century Pictures felt it was remote enough to guarantee lack of interruption from skiers and other park visitors.
The winery also invited Hollywood stars including Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Carole Lombard to visit.
After releasing a couple of solo albums, Anders retired from his music career temporarily and went with Balling to live in Los Angeles, California, in Clark Gable's former house.
The working title for this cartoon was It Happened All Night (a pun on the Clark Gable It Happened One Night), but it was changed after the studio censors feared that the title would be too sexually suggestive.
During the war, American actor Clark Gable was stationed at the airfield before being relocated to RAF Polebrook.
He also played Clark Gable in a play about the making of the 1961 film The Misfits, he toured South-East Asia in a production of Catch Me If You Can and also toured New Zealand in the play Rose.
At 8:30 p.m., Anna Sage, John Dillinger, and Polly Hamilton strolled into the Biograph Theater to see Clark Gable in Manhattan Melodrama.
A typical spiv has been described as having: A duck's arse haircut, Clark Gable moustache, rakish trilby hat, drape-shape jacket,, and loud garish tie ... which all represented a deliberate snook cocked at wartime austerity.
Thomson notes that Clark Gable was a rising star at thirty: “Now, in our collective recollection, Gable may seem older, worldlier, and more grown-up than Cruise was at thirty. But when did Gable ever risk playing the jerk to whom Cruise was totally committed in The Color of Money? When was Gable as uninhibitedly tender as Cruise managed in Risky Business? And could Gable have survived the black-hole narcissism of Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man?”
Persons who lived and worked near Whizbang during its heyday included oilmen E.W. Marland and Frank Phillips and future actors Ben Johnson, Jr., a cowboy and rodeo star, and Clark Gable who worked as a roustabout in the oil fields.
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After Office Hours is a 1935 film starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett and directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
Started in the early sixties with films such as It Started in Naples by Melville Shavelson with Clark Gable, and The Agony and the Ecstasy by Carol Reed, with Charlton Heston.
He was to be accompanied by one author (Gordon Rigby), two camera men (Carl Berger and Robert Miller), one assistant director, a business manager, a sound man (Zultan Kagel) and one American actor, whom Elliott hoped would be "a cross between Clark Gable and Ronald Colman."
The many covers that Capa shot for the magazine included portraits of television personality Jack Paar, painter Grandma Moses, and Clark Gable.
With the huge success of It Happened One Night, the 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, every studio in Hollywood attempted to cash in with a similar storyline.
He married, secondly, in 1954, to Sylvia Ashley, a onetime English showgirl who was the former wife of Major Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Clark Gable, and the widow of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
In the meantime he was gradually creating his public character, inspired by Clark Gable and Mickey Spillane's gangsters.
The film preceded MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, by two years.
Along with Clark Gable, Kent Taylor served as the inspiration behind the name of Superman's alter-ego - Clark Kent.
Millicent Rogers was romantically linked to a number of notable men throughout her life, including author Roald Dahl, actor Clark Gable, the author Ian Fleming, the Prince of Wales, Prince Serge Obolensky, and an unknown "heir to the Italian throne".
After World War II Hasse became a famous German movie actor, also internationally appearing in the Alfred Hitchcock movie I Confess (1953) with Montgomery Clift and starring with Clark Gable and Lana Turner in Betrayed (1954).
The story revolves around a love triangle, set on a rubber plantation most likely located in Cochinchina (southern French Indochina) during the monsoon season, between the plantation's owner/manager Dennis Carson (Gable), a prostitute named Vantine (Harlow), and Barbara Willis (Astor), the wife of an engineer named Gary Willis (Raymond).
Although she was pursued by the likes of Clark Gable and Ernest Hemingway, she wrote that the one love of her life remained Hayward, who in turn left her for another socialite, Pamela Churchill.
The cartoon's title is a play on The Hucksters, a satirical novel about the advertising business that was made into a 1947 live-action film starring Clark Gable.
Actress Kay Francis was in charge of hospital morale, and she saw to it that many of the stars who frequented the resort now entertained the patients; including The Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, Jack Benny, Harry James, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Kay Kyser, James Cagney, Clark Gable and dozens of others.
Howard Hawks was the initial director, but left the set when he found he would be working with non-actor Baer, not Clark Gable.
He was one of the first Hollywood bigwigs to advocate early U.S. involvement, and he convinced stars like Clark Gable, James Stewart, Robert Taylor and Nelson Eddy to become involved in the war effort.
Wife vs. Secretary is a 1936 comedy film directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown, and starring Clark Gable as a successful businessman, Jean Harlow as his secretary, and Myrna Loy as his wife, supported by James Stewart, in one of his first memorable roles, as the secretary's suitor.