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Victim oi Heart AttachClark Gable, Filmland King, DiesBy JAMES BACON AP Movie-TV Writer HOLLYWOOD (AP ClarkGable, the king of Hollywood, died Wednesday night from a heart attack in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.He had been in the hospital since Nov. 6 when a heart attack; felled the husky, 59-year-old actor at his suburban Encio ranch. Death came at 11 p. m , Pacific Standard Time.Doctors said he died peacefully —with only a few sleepy gasps and no apparent pain.Ironically, death came after his best day since that first attack. He had eaten heartily at dinner, then chatted happily with his wife.When Kay, his fifth wife, noticed him dozing again, she retired to her room across the hall She was barely settled when she heard the nurse cry Come quick Never W,II See Baby Thus ended the 30-year reign of the king of Hollywood. Sadly, he never will see his first child due in March.His impending fatherhood was the topic of his last conversation with his wife—and many earlier talks with her and others.He was more concerned about the effect of his illness on me and the baby than he was about himself. Kay related1 feel terrible doing this to you and the baby. he told her soon after he entered the hospital.No Serious Heart History Gable had no previous history of heart trouble when the coronary thrombosis hit him at his 20-acre Encino ranch that Sunday morning 11 days ago.He was the healthiest man alive until that came, his wife said. He hadn't even had a cold in the five years we've been married.’’The blonde widow, under heavy sedation, was bearing up as well as could be expected under the shock.1 was the last newspaperman to talk to him. It was Friday. Nov. 4. He had Just one more scene to shoot in a station wagon with Marilyn Monro* for The Misfits.Catted Him Grandpa How va. grandpa? he grinnedat me 1 kidded him back:What's this I used to be » fan of yours when I went to high school Here i'm a new grandpa and you're about to become a papa for the first time.”1 always was a late starter, h* laughed Then he became seriousThis is a dividend that has come to me late in life When I wind up this picture. I'm takingHAVING FUN Kay SpreckelsClark Gable* and his wife the formeroff until the baby is born in March. I want to be there when it happens — and I want to be there a good many months afterwardThis is my 90th picture and it's been a tough one I'm not doing any more for a long while I want to enjoy my sun Referred to Baby All through the conversation, he referred to the baby only as he — and it was hard to conceive any Gable first-horn as being an\-thing else hut a husky boy For Gable was all man — admired and envied by men ami adored by women He once said he had received 5.000 marriage proposals from women fans.And that was years ago His popularity never diminished de- j spite a series of bad pictures after World War H—pictures that would have killed off any other star In the businessBorn In Ohio Gable was born Feb. 1 1901. inCadiz, Ohio, the son of an oil worker He knocked about as a farm boy. oil field worker and rubber plant employe. Then he took a job as a backstage call boy in a touring stock company. From then on. he was an actor, touring the country with stock companies Lionel Barrymore spotted him once in a l^os Angeles play and got him a series of bit parts in the movies Later he played Killer Mears in the Lolt; Angeles company of The I^a^t Mile The depression ended the era of the patent-haired lovers of the screen and spawned the Gable era His old friend, Lionel Barrymore, suggested to Ixmls B May- , cr that Gable would be ideal for the gangster role In A Free Soul. starring Barrymore and. Norma Shearer.In the movie Gable slapped!Miss Shearer, one of M'Mro-Oold-wyn-Mayer’s top feminine stars.Slap Reaction AstoundingThe reaction was astounding, said one MGM executive, Instead of the letters of protest we expected. women by the thousands wrote in that they would like to be slapped around by Gable Thus started the king’s reign in Hollywood. Joan Crawford said recently that no one. not even (Concluded on page 18
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Albert Lea Evening Tribune
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Thu, Nov 17, 1960
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