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IdiThus ended the 30-year reign of. the king of Hollywood. Sadly, he, 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 hen and others.“He was more concerned about the effect of his ilhess on me and the baby than he was about himself.” Kay related.“I feel terrible doing this to you and the baby,” he told her soon after he entered the hospital.Gable had no previous history of heart trouble when the coronary thrombosis hit him at his 20-acre Encino ranch that Sunday morning li days ago.“He was the healthiest man alive until that came” his wife smd. “He hadn't even had a cold in the five years we've been married.”Ihe blonde widow, under heavy sedation, was bearing up as well as could be expected under the shock.I was the last newspaperman to talk to him. It was Friday, Nov. 4. He had just one more s£ene to shoot in a station wagon with Marilyn Monroe for “The Misfits.”“How ya, grandpa?” he grinned at me. I kidded him back:“What’s this. I used to be a fan of yours when I went to high school. Her© I’m a new grandpa and you’re about to hernmp apapa for the first time.I always was a late starter,” he laughed. Then he became serious.“This is a dividend that has come to me late in life. When I wind up this picture, I’m taking off until the baby is bom in March. I want to be there when it happens — and I want to be there a good many months afterward.“This is my 90th picture—and it’s been a tough one. I’m nof doing any more for a long while. I want to enjoy my son.”All through the conversation, he referred to the baby only as he— and it was hard to conceive any Gable first-born as being anything alse but a husky boy.For Gable was all man — admired and envied by men and , adored by women. He once said he had received 5,000 marriage proposals from women fans.And that was years, ago. His Tunr To Pago 2, Col §
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Waynesboro Record Herald
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Nov 17, 1960
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