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Heart Attack Fated To Movie ActorClark Gable died last night following a heart attack. Here he is photographed during filming «f The Misfits'* near Beno. He became ill a few days after completing his role.iTbe Greatest Of Them All...{Clark Gable, 59, Dies In Hollywood Hospital By JAMES BACON f— --’ AP Movie-TV Writer JHOLLYWOOD lift-—- Clark i Gable, the greatest movie star of! them all, dropped his head back-on a pillow late Wednesday night and died of a heart attack.The end came so fast that his doctor said there was no pain-just a few gasps. A few seconds before he had been asleep. A fflirse ia his xoambeanLihe-gasps and shouted across the hall to Mrs. Gable who had moved into Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital when Gable, 59, was taken there after his first heart attack Nov. 6.Ironically, death came after his best day since that first attack._He had eaten heartily at dinner,, then chatted happily with his wife, j j When Kay, his fifth wife, no-j . ticed him dozing again, she re-!tired to her room across the hall. I , She was barely settled when she: j heard the nurse cry: “ComeI quick!” IThus ended the 30-year reign of the king of Hollywood. Sadly, he I never will see his first child duel 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 him-! self,” Kay related. j“I feel terrible doing this to you and the baby,” he told her soon! after he entered the hospital. i Gable had no previous history of heart trouble when the coro-i nary thrombosis hit him at his 20-acre Encino ranch that Sunday morning ll 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.”
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Waynesboro Record Herald
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Nov 17, 1960
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