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Clark GaBIeContinued Front'Poge 1popularity never diminished despite a series of bad pictures after World War H—pictures that would have killed off any other star in the business. •Gable was born Feb. 1, J901, int Cadiz, Ohio, the son of an oil; worker.,He knocked about as a farm boy, ofl 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 Los Angeles play and got him a series of bit parts in the movies.Later he played Killer Mears in the Los Angeles company of “The Last Mile.”The Depression ended the era of the patent-haired lovers of the screen and sprawned the Gable era. His old friend, Lionel Barrymore, suggested to Louis B Mayer 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 Metro-Gold* wyn-Mayer’s top feminine stars.“The 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 Brando, has ever approached Gable. He's the king—and he always will be/'When Margaret Mitchell wrote “Gone With The Wind/' she had Clark Gable in mind when she created the character of Rhett Butler. Everybody knew it but Gable.
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Waynesboro Record Herald
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Nov 17, 1960
Page 12
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