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««■I never could see myself in that part,” he once said His portrayal in the movie of the famed best sellers was a screen classic but it was not hjs favorite.His all-time favorite was the one that won him an Oscar in 1934— . the wise-cracking newspaperman’, of “It Happened One Night”“I was having a beef with Metro in those days,” he once said. “I was sick—even went to a hospital — but they threatened me with suspension. To get even, they exiled me^via a loanout to Columbia.“Columbia in those days was not the major studio it is now.It was a little independent on poverty row—Siberia for me, so my bosses at MGM thought _“But I knew they had guessed wrong as soon as I read the script and talked to Frank Capra, the; director. The picture was the big turning point in my career. MGM had me in a rut playing mostly heavies or brutes.“ Tt Happened One Night* gave me a chance to play comedy and from then on, I was never, type cast.”Gable, a better actor than most screen heroes, never took himself seriously. A few years ago, I asked him if he intended to take up directing as had some of his fellow stars.“Direct? Hell! 1 haven’t even learned how to act yet.” in a way, that quot summed up Gable — a big star who never got the big head—even though he had the ears for It.Unlike * many big stars, Gable was as beloved fry fellow workers as by fans. When news of hisiirst-heart attack-broke-a-flocM of MGM people from gatemen to publicity men flocked to the hospital to help — although Gable hadn’t worked at MGM for ID years.
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Waynesboro Record Herald
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Nov 17, 1960
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