Star of the Week - Clark Gable

Last week's star was Deborah Kerr. This week's star is none other than the "King" of Hollywood: Clark Gable

Real Name: William Clark Gable

Born: February 1, 1901 in

              Cadiz, Ohio

Died: November 16, 1960 (age 59)

Height: 6-1

Academy Award Nominations:

It Happened One Night (1934)  WON
Mutiny on The Bounty (1935)

Gone With The Wind (1939)

Trademark: Often played a virile, lovable rogue whose gruff facade only thinly masked a natural charm and goodness.

 - Small pencil thin mustache

Known as "The King of Hollywood", Clark Gable was a force in Hollywood. Although he is known for his role as Rhett Butler in "Gone With The Wind", Gable was excellent in other roles. My favorite of his is It Happened One Night. Gable was paired alongside Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, and Lana Turner. It was with his wife Carole Lombard that he is most famous. It's very sad that she died in a tragic plane crash. Years of drinking and smoking and his ballooning weight affected his health in his later years. Clark Gable died of a heart attack in 1960. In 1999 the American Film Institute listed Clark Gable as the 7th greatest male star of all time (behind Bogart, Grant, Stewart, Brando, Astaire (?), and Fonda).

Clark Gable is one of my favorite actors (only behind Cary Grant, James Stewart, and Humphrey Bogart). I used to be not like him very much but he's really grown on me. Only through watching his films did i come to realize that Clark Gable was so great. He definately embodied the word "man". and not bad looking either.

Notable Films: Gone With The Wind, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on The Bounty, The Misfits

Joan Crawford said of Gable "he was a king wherever he went. He walked like one, he behaved like one, and he was the most masculine man that I have ever met in my life."

Life Magazine called Gable: "All man... and then some."