Clark Gable: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
Clark Gable: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
Clark Gable was in Mogambo (1953) with Donald Sinden, who was in Balto (1995) with Kevin Bacon; giving Gable surprisingly only two degrees of separation. William Clark Gable first appeared on February 1st 1901 to an audience of his mother and father in Cadiz, Illinois. The boy would grow to become the embodiment of masculinity in Hollywood cinema during the ‘30’s and 40’s. The appropriately nicknamed “King of Hollywood” is most known for his roles of the iconic Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind (1939) and, his Academy Award winning performance for Best Actor (1934), as Peter Warne in It Happened One Night (1934). Before he died in 1960, due to a heart attack, he played opposite Hollywood’s biggest stars and leading ladies: Jimmy Stewart (Best Actor 1941) Wife Vs. Secretary (1936), Spencer Tracy (Best Actor 1938, 1939) Boom Town (1940), Claudette Colbert (Best Actress 1935) It Happened One Night (1934), Joan Crawford (Best Actress 1946) Strange Cargo (1940). Gable however was not limited to appearing alongside another big name, he could certainly carry a film with his star power alone, as evidenced by his over 80 film credits as an actor.
In A Free Soul (1931) Gable plays gangster Ace Wilfong. Ace is on trial for murder when he meets and falls for the daughter, Jan Ashe (Norma Shearer), of his well-to-do lawyer David Ashe (Lionel Barrymore, who won Best Actor for this role). Jan has learned to embrace a wilder style of life from being raised around her father who has a drinking problem yet maintains a high class social life; so even though she is involved with another man she is powerless under the Gable spell and goes out to see him a few times. But, after all, he is a gangster and eventually what was once charm turns to overpowering womanizing and Jan decides that even though she is as addicted to Ace as her father is to alcohol she must stay away from Ace forever. This does not sit well with the love struck
Clark Gable was in Mogambo (1953) with Donald Sinden, who was in Balto (1995) with Kevin Bacon; giving Gable surprisingly only two degrees of separation. William Clark Gable first appeared on February 1st 1901 to an audience of his mother and father in Cadiz, Illinois. The boy would grow to become the embodiment of masculinity in Hollywood cinema during the ‘30’s and 40’s. The appropriately nicknamed “King of Hollywood” is most known for his roles of the iconic Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind (1939) and, his Academy Award winning performance for Best Actor (1934), as Peter Warne in It Happened One Night (1934). Before he died in 1960, due to a heart attack, he played opposite Hollywood’s biggest stars and leading ladies: Jimmy Stewart (Best Actor 1941) Wife Vs. Secretary (1936), Spencer Tracy (Best Actor 1938, 1939) Boom Town (1940), Claudette Colbert (Best Actress 1935) It Happened One Night (1934), Joan Crawford (Best Actress 1946) Strange Cargo (1940). Gable however was not limited to appearing alongside another big name, he could certainly carry a film with his star power alone, as evidenced by his over 80 film credits as an actor.
In A Free Soul (1931) Gable plays gangster Ace Wilfong. Ace is on trial for murder when he meets and falls for the daughter, Jan Ashe (Norma Shearer), of his well-to-do lawyer David Ashe (Lionel Barrymore, who won Best Actor for this role). Jan has learned to embrace a wilder style of life from being raised around her father who has a drinking problem yet maintains a high class social life; so even though she is involved with another man she is powerless under the Gable spell and goes out to see him a few times. But, after all, he is a gangster and eventually what was once charm turns to overpowering womanizing and Jan decides that even though she is as addicted to Ace as her father is to alcohol she must stay away from Ace forever. This does not sit well with the love struck