Clark Gable
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PERSONAL DATA OF CLARK GABLE
Born in: CADIZ, Ohio (USA)
Born on: 01/02/1901
He dies at: LOS ANGELES, California (USA)
He dies on: 11/16/1960
CLARK GABLE BIOGRAPHY
Actor. Orphaned by a mother when he was only seven months old, he grew up with his father, an oil well driller, married in a second marriage to Jennie Dunlap. At sixteen he left school and his father’s house to go to work in a factory. Struck by the vision of the play “The bird of Paradise” and encouraged by his stepmother, he began acting in small traveling theater companies. Fundamental is the meeting and marriage with Josephine Dillon, director and actress of a theater company, who is twelve years older than him and from whom he divorces in 1930, which pushes him to Hollywood in 1924. Limited by the clumsy appearance, the teeth crooked and protruding ears, he only gets small parts and disappointed he moves to Broadway. Here he meets Lionel Barrymore, with whom he forms a lifelong friendship, who introduces him to producer Irving Thalberg. In 1931 he married Rhea Langham, a wealthy multi-divorcee seventeen years older than him, he returned to Hollywood and achieved success with a series of films starring alongside the famous divas of the moment: Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer, thanks also to transformation of his image – MGM makes his smile perfect with dentures and less showy his ears. The actor perfectly embodies the role of a tough and incurable seducer who knows how to treat women. The consecration came in 1934 with the Oscar as best actor for the interpretation of the journalist Peter Warne in “It happened one night” by Frank Capra, alongside Claudette Colbert. Other nominations will arrive for “Mutiny of the Bounty” (1935) by Frank Lloyd and especially for the interpretation of Rhett Butler in the blockbuster “Gone with the wind – 1939) by Victor Fleming. In 1942 he left the scene to enlist in aviation after the loss of his third wife, the actress Carole Lombard (married in 1939 after her divorce from Lengham) who died in a plane crash. Highly decorated for his brave deeds on the European front, he returns to Hollywood but his fame begins to fade and his star shines again only for his last great performance in Arthur Miller’s 1961 “The misfists”. Two days later the end of filming dies of a heart attack, leaving his only son, John Clark, born from his fifth marriage to Kay Spreckles, married in ’55 (three years after the divorce from his fourth wife Lady Sylvia Ashley), prematurely orphaned. He is buried in the Sanctuary of Trust’s Great Mausoleum, Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California, next to Carole Lombard. He had an illegitimate daughter, actress Judy Lewis, by actress Loretta Young.
CLARK GABLE’S MOST RECENT FILMS
Hollywood Hollywood (That’s Entertainment, Part II)
Role: Actor
Year: 1976
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (That’s Entertainment!)
Role: Actor
Year: 1974
A Girlfriend for Dad (The Courtship of Eddie’s Father)
Role: Actor
Year: 1963
The Misfits
Role: Actor
Year: 1961 Go to the Complete Filmography
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF CLARK GABLE
Drama: 27% Sentimental: 20% Comedy: 16% Adventure: 13%
CLARK GABLE STATISTICS ON COMINGSOON.IT
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RECENT ROLES PLAYED BY CLARK GABLE
| Movie | Role |
|---|---|
Hollywood Hollywood | Himself |
Once upon a time there was Hollywood | (‘Unscrupulous’) |
A girlfriend for dad | Himself in “Mogambo” |
The displaced | Gay Langland |
The Bay of Naples | Michael Hamilton |
HOT SEA | Richardson |
10 in love | James Gannon / James Gallangher |
The band of angels | Hamish Bond |
The James Dean Story | (Archive images: premiere of “The Giant”) |
ONE KING FOR FOUR QUEENS | Dan Kehoe |
The relentless | Ben Allison |
COUNTERSPIONAGE | Col. Pieter Deventer |
Mogambo … |
