Gotta be Gone With The Wind! He was so handsome and he didn't put up with Scarlett's nonsense, he was the only man who wasn't enamored with her and he wasn't too keen on marriage either!!
Were you aware that Clark Gable flew many missions in the USAAF during WW II as waist gunner in a B-17 Bomber, taking the very real risk of being shot down and killed? His action station was statistically one of the most exposed and deadly, and he sure was no teenager by then. Hats off!
"It Happened One Night" still holds up as a clever, flirty comedy nearly 90 years on! He was excellently paired with Claudette Colbert, and they spend the entire film one-upping each other but never upstaging. It was a marvelous chemistry, and the ways in which they both wore the American fashions of the 1930's is also a treat; both of them being so attractive. And if you like "It Happened One Night," you will also enjoy "Arsenic and Old Lace" with Cary Grant. Happy viewing, everybody!
Weird that there is no mention of Gable’s controversial advocacy for Hattie McDaniels in the Gone with the Wind. It was a pivotal moment and shows another side to him than what is depicted here.
@@BelDyesMedia Hattie McDaniel who was the first Black Woman and Black person to win an Academy Award for her role in “Gone with the Wind” McDaniel and Gable, both grew close while filming the movie, (someone can fact check me, not sure if they were friends before, or of course Google(not stating “Google” in a shady way) because of the segregation laws of the time, McDaniel was not allowed to sit with the rest of the cast, even though she was in the film. Gable, was actually not going to attend because he was pissed about this. It was said he only attended the Academy Awards because McDaniel convinced him to. RIP to both. Hope this helps:
@@BelDyesMedia seriously disappointed they didn't add this because it was indeed a pivotal moment In Hollywood at the time. The King of Hollywood advocated in racial equality.
@@KSP30 Thank you for updating me honey, appreciated. Its funny, as a Black woman (and only speaking for myself here too by the way) his equality work is overshadowed and cannibalised by the alleged r@pe mentioned in the video. I could be wrong but I did read somweher that he himself had biracial heritage.. but again.. that allegation is too much for me.
I've lived a wonderful life for 73 years and didn't find out till I was 54 that I was the love child of Lana Turner and Clark Gable. I am living a life that they both yearned for and couldn't have. Healing wounds for my soul family, what a blessing ❤
I read it. Very disturbing details of the crash itself. I always loved Lombard because Lucille Ball said she came to her in a dream and convinced her to do "I Love Lucy" when Ball had doubts about it. I think her words were, "Go ahead, honey, give it a whirl!" If you loved "I Love Lucy", thank Carole Lombard.
Guess that means the ancient Egyptian men weren't manly. They shaved all their body hair, males and females. Like Gable, they felt that body hair was unclean.
Before you go and ahead and trash this guy, it might be noted that although not required, he joined up at age 41, after being heartbroken by the loss of Carole Lombard. The character he played in "Gone with the Wind" joined the war effort for the south but it turned out Rhett Butler was nothing more than a war profiteer. So Rhett Butler was not a war hero, but Clark Gable was. Gable could have spent his time in the army wearing an officer's uniform, making speeches to buy war bonds or how one should join the army and going on a USO tours, but instead he chose to join the 351st bomb group and was a member of a B-17 bomber. The members of this group did not have long life expectancies. The amount of B-17 crewmen surviving the war was only one in four. During his time in service he was always friendly to anyone and everyone. While he served, he gave autographs upon request to anyone who asked, knowing at the same time, most of the guys he was giving an autograph to, -were not going to be around too much longer.
Just imagine if you were watching the news and a guy's picture showed up saying he had raped a woman while he was married. Would all of his achievements matter to you then? Imagine what the family and public would say if the news went on to state all of the great things he had done in his life. I'd go so far to say that, that almost every single murderer, rapist also has done wonderful things in their life also. Should all of their good deeds negate the rape? No of course not. It simply shows the whole of a person isn't that one repungent act. While the rapist and murderer needs to be held accountable, it doesnt mean society should lock them up forever or kill them . They should be given a chance at true redemption after their punishment has ended ie a clean slate. Unfortunately, in today's world and in the US those acts follow people after prison making it almost impossible at giving them a chance to do something better with their life. We, as their peers have to allow them to redeem themselves. Of course, I'm not speaking of the very serious offender such as serial murderers/rapists and child murderers/rapist. But those aren't the vast majority of who's in jail.
According to what I have read, Loretta Young was not raped but had fallen deeply in love with Clark Gable but also a devout Catholic who felt she could not afford to let the world know about her pregnancy but found a way to disguise her pregnancy and then hid her little girl’s identity and then yet become her baby’s adoptive mother. It is too bad that she just could not stand up to the world but, then things were very different not that far back. I can see both Loretta Young and Clark Gable in Judy Lewis….it is too bad that she did not get to know her father. Today things would be very different. Times they have changed…..for sure.
Right, he seemed so well put together, you just never know what someone is dealing with as far as addiction, so sad, he was a really good person from what I've heard.
I once met someone in Hollywood who said he had dated Loretta Young's daughter, Judy. One time she told Loretta Young that she was going to write a book about her parents. Supposedly Loretta Young said Oh no, You are not going to write a Mommy Dearest book about me!
Speaking of Judy Young: once she came back to Hollywood at 2 yo, her mother would bring her along to the studio while she was working. Apparently, Judy was the splitting image of Clark, ears and all! Everyone knew she was Clark Gables daughter. He was married at the time he raped Loretta Young.
To this day, regardless of anything else, I think he's the most handsome man of all men in the world; and gone with the wind, to this day is my most favorite movie!!!
@@irinacapsa6412I loved Marlon Brando as a teenager, but in my 40s, I've come to love and appreciate Clark Gable and his masculine handsomeness. The way he lived his life seemed to be courageous and full with love despite allegations against him. Brando, who also has allegations against him, was hit with so much tragedy with his partners and kids. Paul Newman also comes to mind. He seemed faithful to his wife to the very end and was a great father and an amazing actor like Gable and Brando. Undoubtedly, Gable, Brando, and Newman are three of the most handsome actors ever.
I didn't know until several years ago that he was the father of Loretta Young's daughter and she placed her for adoption, only to "adopt" her back since she was single.
I wish you mentioned Clark Gable's working relationship with Jean Harlow? They made six films together. Harlow's last movie was with Clark Gable, "Saratoga"(1937). She didn't finish this motion picture because she was already dying. In that film, she had to play having an illness, but the truth is she is actually sicker than her role demands. MGM Studio managed to get her a double to finish the film. Clark Gable remarked of Jean Harlow: "It's like hugging a ghost?"
He was madly in love with her. He would regularly visit her while she was sick. Unknowingly to anyone she was dying of kidney failure. One morning he visited her and leaned down to kiss her where he smelled urine on her breath. She died shortly after that. He was inconsolable after her death and at her funeral.
I read someplace that one of Gable's selling points as a young actor was that he resembled heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey, the prototype of male masculinity in the 1920s.
So all someone has to do to look as good as Gable is to get their eyebrows trimmed, style their hair, and maybe a little dental work? This guy had impeccable facial bone structure, that’s why it worked for him. He was already conventionally handsome before Hwood worked their magic..
If you read and watch enough information about Clark Gable, including this video, you start to realize much of what you see can't be anything more than hearsay and gossip, a lot of which is negative and unfair to someone dead and unable to defend themself.
He probably smoked cigs and drank coffee... brushing, keeping them clean once a day isn't gonna help that issue. Probably more about coffee and cigs than about the dentures.
@@mmhthree My thoughts exactly. I also think he had to know it, and why of course, didn't he get it together? It seems it was widely known and you'd think it would have been an embarrassment. But, he was, after all, Clark Gable! Ha!
@@deniselawrence2094 uh no…at best it was a fling, casual thing that happen on and off for a few years in the 30s. There is no evidence (and I use “evidence” loosely, because all the evidence is merely people saying they saw this or that anyway) outside of outrageous over exaggeration that states that anything outside of the typical loose, casual sex was going on between them, as went on between Gable and many women at the time. And Crawford and many men. There was no “love affair” 🙄. And Crawford is really the only one who has said anything about it and she is an abusive bitch and a notorious liar who desperately needed attention. Forgive me if I don’t believe everything that she says. Gable’s one and only love affair was with Carole Lombard. ❤️
Very good and informative piece. You generally do a great job keeping one's attention. This is among your best pieces, although I agree with the prior posted comments.
Good info. 🙌 I would like to play these for seniors. Sadly the background music would be too loud for them to hear what is being said. It would be greatly appreciated if the background music could be eliminated. Thanks for any help you could do in order to bring seniors some joy in their day 🙏🙏🙋
An unknown secret to the public is that David Jansen, of the original tv show "The Fugitive", was his son. He used to hang out at Gables ranch often. If you look at Gables early movies, without his mustache, Jensen looks just like him. Even his voice is the same as Gables. This information was from someone who was a friend of Gable.
It wouldn't surprise me. After all, he raped Loretta Young and had a baby so who knows how many other women he raped and had babies with. Since, he was a womanizer it's believable he could have many other kids.
With all due respect for people who might think differently, I think the best movie stars of all time are John Wayne and Clark Gable. All the rest come after them, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, Jeff Chandler, Alan Ladd, Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston. And concerning the girls, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Jean Simmons, Donna Reed, Maureen O'Hara, Jean Arthur, Laraine Day, Janet Leigh, June Allyson, Debbie Reynolds. God bless them all for all the joy they gave us from the screen.
As well as being a very good great actor he made a lot of real great movies. He was handsome in a kind of rugged way like Humphrey Bogart. A real nice actor nice guy.
Stories are stories seriously would you turn down Clark Gable. My father looked so much like him they could have been brothers. My Dad could have easily been his stand in for his movie. Believe me my father never had a problem getting a woman. In Clarks eye’s with such easy access does no really mean no. Do we really know anything about these people?
One of my favorite movies is Run Silent Run Deep in which Clark Gable plays a submarine commander in WWII....I have noticed in several scenes he appears to have hand tremors and maybe a little bit of a head tremor.....Has anything come out about this ? The movie was made in 1958 and Gable died in 1960, so I have wondered if he had any chronic problems with the shaking. Can you advise ?
I’ve read that his years of heavy smoking caused him to develop what some people believe was an early stage of Parkinson’s disease which caused the shaking.
@@nadyarossi5102 well, this video says that, in other words, but I think he didn't know of her existence, because of how the mother was, and why weren't there a bigger stink about her rape? Kinda reminds me of the "boys town" controversy in early 1900's!!!
For those who forgot or never knew ( like the creator of this YT presentation): Miller wrote one of the greatest American Plays, "Death of a Salesman" for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Also wrote "All My Sons," "The Crucible" and "View from the Bridge." He did write "The Misfits" and several other screenplays, but his fame was from his Broadway accomplishments.
Beyond History Blog Clark Gable’s German Roots Andrea Bentschneider - 16. November 2015 - Birthdays, Celebrities, General, German-American On 16 November 1960, Clark Gable, one of the most iconic and successful Hollywood actors, passed away. Born in 1901, he had made movie history with classics such as “Mutiny on the Bounty” and “Gone with the Wind”. He was said to be a box-office guarantee and was honoured with an Academy Award for his role in “It happened one night” in 1934. He played alongside Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly, just to name a few, and became a movie legend. His family background unfortunately wasn’t all that shiny. His mother died when Gable was a toddler and his family faced financial problems a lot - when he decided to become an actor, at first he had to build up his chronically undernourished body. His family history though is very interesting from a genealogical point of view. The roots of Gable’s father went back to Native Americans while his mother apparently had German heritage: Adeline née Hershelman was born in 1869 to John and rosetta Clark Hershelman in Pennsylvania. They were part of the cultural group called Pennsylvania Dutch. This was the name for early German immigrants that settled especially in Pennsylvania. The biggest immigration waves happened from the late 17th to the late 18th century. Their own dialect was called Pennsylvania Dutch as well - the word Dutch here refers not to Dutch people, but to the German word “deutsch”. Clark Gables great grandfather, Johann Jakob Hershelman, had migrated from Trippstadt, Germany, to the US in the mid-19th century. Back then, Trippstadt belonged to the kingdom of Bavaria, today is part of the federal state Rhineland-Palatine. This way the American icon Clark Gable also carried a piece of migration history with him and pleases us today not only with his movies but also from a genealogical viewpoint!
You would think with his obsession about cleanliness that he would have rinsed his mouth out after he ate & brushed his teeth often. Dentures don't smell, what's trapped inside them does. I always felt bad for his daughter, it was not her fault how she was conceived. He was a good actor but not really a decent guy. JMO
I would like to imagine that the young Loretta Young was in love with Gable and that their encounter was consensual. They allegedly flirted a lot on the set of their movie together. I truly believed that they were carrying on an affair with one another, and Young felt compelled to lie about their encounters because she became pregnant and was unmarried.
@@chalkymelon Ah yes, let's believe the "many sources" instead of her own testimony. I'm sure those "many sources" also claimed that she lied about it years later, when she found out what date r/ping actually is. It's still disgusting, you know. Whether you imagined it yourself or decided to believe these imaginings of others.
@@chalkymelon No, the fact that you would rather believe those sources over her is what disgusts me. Not believing women has always been a huge problem in society for forever and it's depressing to see this continue even today.
I'm 56years old but I remember watching the first time seen him I said mam I'm going to marry him when I'm 16,she replied why 16 me ,because then I'm a woman and I heard he likes blondes,I was only 5 then,
Where do you get your information? Gable wasn't a rapist. That is total slander. He loved women and they loved him. He made a mistake, but does that mean his good name has to be trashed in his death?
"He made a mistake" Oh is that what we are calling it now? "A mistake"? He's responsible for his own actions, so yeah, he deserves the trashing, since he never had to face any repercussions while he was alive.
There were lot more things to add about him then video would have been of 30-45 mins , but they had to bring up dat rape thing wheather he did it or not , we dont know if she is playing angel here after a decades and demeening Gables image.
My grandpa looks exactly like Clark Gable, you would think I'm lying if I had a picture I would show you and I'll be like oh my God yes OMG but my mom's side of the family everybody look white so you know but we all fine as hell!! And then I hear it in the biography that he was from Ohio the same place I'm from it's the most weirdest thing I wonder if my mom knows that and my grandmother
I always cringe that so many of Classic Hollywood favourites were so damn Right Wing Conservative....even as they fought against Hilter / Nazism and participated in many "community good works", they still embraced Hard Core Republican politics and the White racial Status Quo. The great Frank Capra, director of It Happened One Night, was surprisingly very Conservative Republican even as he made all those Humanitarian Populist themed films. Gable seems almost schizo and paradoxical to me .He, too, was a hardcore Republican even while married to Lombard, who was a staunch Democrat liberal. I have trouble reconciling Clark's well-known advocacy and friendship with Hattie McDaniel. But then McDaniel was a Misguided Black Conservative, who "knew her place" as a Black woman and pandered to Whites to bolster her career. And what about Gable's rumoured Bi-sexual behaviour...? if it furthered his career, he didnt mind turning a trick with an Influential dude.
I doubt the rape story. According to what I've read about Gable, he was constantly being pursued by women. Not just his attractive costars, but secretaries, maids, waitresses, studio employees, and extras, not all of them necessarily attractive. Yet he obliged many of these star struck women out of gentlemanly politeness, according to one friend who quoted Gable as claiming it being not out of lust so much, as mostly "not wanting to hurt their feelings".
Olivia de Havilland loathed Gable to the end of her life - saying he had no respect for women - - it's funny to hear men who should know how man think and act - how "pushy" they can be - trying to "have their way" - rush to his defense - and accuse Loretta of making it all up - - sad to say - when i finally heard Loretta's accusation - i thought that had to be it - it explained Gable's reticence towards their daughter (he met her only once) - and it explains Young's reluctance to talk about Gable to her daughter - her daughter had to drag it out of her - but Young never brought up the "date rape" to Judy - she mentioned it to a friend who would write a biography revealing it after Judy's death - so Judy thought to the end of her life that she was born out of her parent's love
@@johneyon5257 More likely out of her parents' mutual lust. Different times, different mores, attitudes and social pressures bred a lot of butt covering fabrications, subterfuges and excuses in those days. Especially when careers were at stake. I find it highly unlikely that Gable raped anyone.
Although we will never really know the truth about the “rape” accusation Loretta Young still was very friendly towards Clark Gable and it what is so, confusing about her accusations. Lying to her daughter for all those year or keep those so called secrets well, Loretta grew up catholic and in her contract there was an “ ethic’s clause.” For most stars if they broke that it meant they would lose a very lucrative career. That’s why her what she claim ; for me does not make sense. How can she stay friends with her rapist for years and yet tell her close friends he raped her? Also when she became pregnant she was only twenty and she was very close to her mother. In those days being catholic you don’t have sex, get pregnant much less have an abortion.She was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Those were very different times and if he did rape her why did she torcher herself by still befriending him? Or did she not have a choice but to be his friend? It’s perplexing and complicated.
What is your favorite movie starring Clark Gable?
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Gone With The Wind!
The last movie John Dillinger ever saw, Manhattan Melodrama.
Gotta be Gone With The Wind! He was so handsome and he didn't put up with Scarlett's nonsense, he was the only man who wasn't enamored with her and he wasn't too keen on marriage either!!
GWTW and Soldiers of Fortune
Were you aware that Clark Gable flew many missions in the USAAF during WW II as waist gunner in a B-17 Bomber, taking the very real risk of being shot down and killed? His action station was statistically one of the most exposed and deadly, and he sure was no teenager by then. Hats off!
"It Happened One Night" still holds up as a clever, flirty comedy nearly 90 years on! He was excellently paired with Claudette Colbert, and they spend the entire film one-upping each other but never upstaging. It was a marvelous chemistry, and the ways in which they both wore the American fashions of the 1930's is also a treat; both of them being so attractive. And if you like "It Happened One Night," you will also enjoy "Arsenic and Old Lace" with Cary Grant. Happy viewing, everybody!
Two great movies!
Two of my favorite movies!
Love those old screwball comedies.
Such a great good natured M/F tensions without the obligatory (today) sex.
Love "It Happened One Night", it is a wonderful screwball comedy !
Absolutely, "Arsenic & Old Lace" is also a favorite of mine, Cary Grant was wonderful in it !
Weird that there is no mention of Gable’s controversial advocacy for Hattie McDaniels in the Gone with the Wind. It was a pivotal moment and shows another side to him than what is depicted here.
what happened?
@@BelDyesMedia Hattie McDaniel who was the first Black Woman and Black person to win an Academy Award for her role in “Gone with the Wind” McDaniel and Gable, both grew close while filming the movie, (someone can fact check me, not sure if they were friends before, or of course Google(not stating “Google” in a shady way) because of the segregation laws of the time, McDaniel was not allowed to sit with the rest of the cast, even though she was in the film. Gable, was actually not going to attend because he was pissed about this. It was said he only attended the Academy Awards because McDaniel convinced him to. RIP to both. Hope this helps:
@@BelDyesMedia seriously disappointed they didn't add this because it was indeed a pivotal moment In Hollywood at the time. The King of Hollywood advocated in racial equality.
@@KSP30 Thank you for updating me honey, appreciated. Its funny, as a Black woman (and only speaking for myself here too by the way) his equality work is overshadowed and cannibalised by the alleged r@pe mentioned in the video. I could be wrong but I did read somweher that he himself had biracial heritage.. but again.. that allegation is too much for me.
@@KSP30 they were friends before Gone with the Wind
He had a women fall head over heels in love with him he was authentic. Too bad tragedy seperated them. He never got over her.
They get back together later on tho in the sequel 😅
I've lived a wonderful life for 73 years and didn't find out till I was 54 that I was the love child of Lana Turner and Clark Gable. I am living a life that they both yearned for and couldn't have. Healing wounds for my soul family, what a blessing ❤
Anyone interested in Gable or Lombard should read "Fireball." It's about the plane crash that killed Lombard. Great, great book.
Thanks for the tip, my new obsession!
I read it. Very disturbing details of the crash itself. I always loved Lombard because Lucille Ball said she came to her in a dream and convinced her to do "I Love Lucy" when Ball had doubts about it. I think her words were, "Go ahead, honey, give it a whirl!" If you loved "I Love Lucy", thank Carole Lombard.
@@TPOrchestra yes, the level of research and detail was amazing.
@@TPOrchestra thank you, I look forward to the read!
Clark Gable was an avid reader, something he always kept hidden from the public because he didn't think it seemed manly.
He wasn't manly. He shaved under his arm pits!
Guess that means the ancient Egyptian men weren't manly. They shaved all their body hair, males and females. Like Gable, they felt that body hair was unclean.
And suddenly he’s become more attractive to me.
Before you go and ahead and trash this guy, it might be noted that although not required, he joined up at age 41, after being heartbroken by the loss of Carole Lombard.
The character he played in "Gone with the Wind" joined the war effort for the south but it turned out Rhett Butler was nothing more than a war profiteer.
So Rhett Butler was not a war hero, but Clark Gable was.
Gable could have spent his time in the army wearing an officer's uniform, making speeches to buy war bonds or how one should join the army and going on a USO tours,
but instead he chose to join the 351st bomb group and was a member of a B-17 bomber. The members of this group did not have long life expectancies.
The amount of B-17 crewmen surviving the war was only one in four.
During his time in service he was always friendly to anyone and everyone.
While he served, he gave autographs upon request to anyone who asked,
knowing at the same time, most of the guys he was giving an autograph to, -were not going to be around too much longer.
Just imagine if you were watching the news and a guy's picture showed up saying he had raped a woman while he was married. Would all of his achievements matter to you then? Imagine what the family and public would say if the news went on to state all of the great things he had done in his life.
I'd go so far to say that, that almost every single murderer, rapist also has done wonderful things in their life also. Should all of their good deeds negate the rape? No of course not. It simply shows the whole of a person isn't that one repungent act. While the rapist and murderer needs to be held accountable, it doesnt mean society should lock them up forever or kill them . They should be given a chance at true redemption after their punishment has ended ie a clean slate. Unfortunately, in today's world and in the US those acts follow people after prison making it almost impossible at giving them a chance to do something better with their life. We, as their peers have to allow them to redeem themselves.
Of course, I'm not speaking of the very serious offender such as serial murderers/rapists and child murderers/rapist. But those aren't the vast majority of who's in jail.
Wow. That would have been an interesting first conversation between him and Hitler: "Frankly, Mein Kampf, I don't give a...!"
According to what I have read, Loretta Young was not raped but had fallen deeply in love with Clark Gable but also a devout Catholic who felt she could not afford to let the world know about her pregnancy but found a way to disguise her pregnancy and then hid her little girl’s identity and then yet become her baby’s adoptive mother. It is too bad that she just could not stand up to the world but, then things were very different not that far back. I can see both Loretta Young and Clark Gable in Judy Lewis….it is too bad that she did not get to know her father. Today things would be very different. Times they have changed…..for sure.
That's not what Loretta Young told her daughter. What is your source?
So wild, and his grandson who was literally his twin and was the host of Cheaters died in 2019 of a fentanyl overdose.
Yeah it's so sad that he died so young I was shocked to learn about his death
Right, he seemed so well put together, you just never know what someone is dealing with as far as addiction, so sad, he was a really good person from what I've heard.
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He didn't really resemble his granddad a great deal.
@@davegreene8588 Maybe it's me, but I see alot of facial characteristics that his grandfather passed down to him, but again, that's just my opinion.
Very sad about Carol Lombard my mother always said she was the love of his life
Interesting, my mom says the exact same thing. Can't mentioned Gable without my mom mentioning that.
I once met someone in Hollywood who said he had dated Loretta Young's daughter, Judy. One time she told Loretta Young that she was going to write a book about her parents. Supposedly Loretta Young said Oh no, You are not going to write a Mommy Dearest book about me!
Speaking of Judy Young: once she came back to Hollywood at 2 yo, her mother would bring her along to the studio while she was working. Apparently, Judy was the splitting image of Clark, ears and all! Everyone knew she was Clark Gables daughter. He was married at the time he raped Loretta Young.
He was absolutely gifted actor and very handsome
I hope I read this article right saying clark gable grandson died a few weeks ago handsome like his grandfather may they both be in peace in gods arms
@@jennyihall7401 his grandson died in 2019 but indeed very handsome looked like his grandfather
Stunningly beautiful
To this day, regardless of anything else, I think he's the most handsome man of all men in the world; and gone with the wind, to this day is my most favorite movie!!!
What about Marlon Brando?
I totally agree. Most handsome and my favorite movie.
@@Les445 But he was old in GWTW. He's like a cat
@@irinacapsa6412I loved Marlon Brando as a teenager, but in my 40s, I've come to love and appreciate Clark Gable and his masculine handsomeness. The way he lived his life seemed to be courageous and full with love despite allegations against him. Brando, who also has allegations against him, was hit with so much tragedy with his partners and kids. Paul Newman also comes to mind. He seemed faithful to his wife to the very end and was a great father and an amazing actor like Gable and Brando. Undoubtedly, Gable, Brando, and Newman are three of the most handsome actors ever.
I didn't know until several years ago that he was the father of Loretta Young's daughter and she placed her for adoption, only to "adopt" her back since she was single.
She really looks like him
No
@@naepalm1150 She does! Gorgeous eyes!
He raped her.
@@charlottefuller2771 uh... No what?
Marilyn Monroe wrote, in her unfinished autobiography, that the head of Warner Brothers saw her as “unphotogenic” and limited her roles at first.
Sad.
In 2022 the heads at Warner Bros hired Ezra Miller and Amber Head. Proof that those "heads" are still not very bright..
I wish you mentioned Clark Gable's working relationship with Jean Harlow? They made six films together. Harlow's last movie was with Clark Gable, "Saratoga"(1937). She didn't finish this motion picture because she was already dying. In that film, she had to play having an illness, but the truth is she is actually sicker than her role demands. MGM Studio managed to get her a double to finish the film. Clark Gable remarked of Jean Harlow: "It's like hugging a ghost?"
hopefully she didn't have to kiss him and his BED BREATH!
@@JeanetteFaith Given that her failing kidneys produced a urine like smell to her breath, I'm sure she didn't notice his breath smelling bad at all.
@@LoquaciousByNature Must be bad to get old.
@@JeanetteFaith she was old when she died only 26yo.
He was madly in love with her. He would regularly visit her while she was sick. Unknowingly to anyone she was dying of kidney failure. One morning he visited her and leaned down to kiss her where he smelled urine on her breath. She died shortly after that. He was inconsolable after her death and at her funeral.
I read someplace that one of Gable's selling points as a young actor was that he resembled heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey, the prototype of male masculinity in the 1920s.
Phooey, Clark worked in labor jobs, married and loved older women to get him to Hollywood.
I don't believe he loved any of them. He used them.
Gone With The Wind Will Always Be My Favorite Movie Of Gable's He Will Always Be Rhett Butler To Me What A Major Talent
In the book, Rhett was actually handsome. Clark was NOT!
ME SECOND CLARK GABLE WILL ALWAYS BE RHETT BUTLER TO ME ALSO...... THAT'S RIGHT
My favorite too
@@JeanetteFaith Clark is handsome , ridiculously so
@@Cottondandy0 With those big ears, bad breath from dentures, and shaved under his arms????? UCK!!!!!
"It happened one night" is a favorite of mine!
So all someone has to do to look as good as Gable is to get their eyebrows trimmed, style their hair, and maybe a little dental work? This guy had impeccable facial bone structure, that’s why it worked for him. He was already conventionally handsome before Hwood worked their magic..
Clark Gable was an Adonis he was very handsome too me! His charisma was intoxicating.
He remain king of hollywood
Yes, Fireball, is a terrific read, couldn't put it down.
He died in 1960 at the age of 59.
Always learn something new when watching these videos! ❤️
Dead at 59 - what a ride. 🦖☄️
A good summary of what has been told. None of it is 'untold'.
If you read and watch enough information about Clark Gable, including this video, you start to realize much of what you see can't be anything more than hearsay and gossip, a lot of which is negative and unfair to someone dead and unable to defend themself.
If he was so obsessed by hygiene, why didn't he keep his dentures clean?
Ha! Good question. I wondered that myself.
He probably smoked cigs and drank coffee... brushing, keeping them clean once a day isn't gonna help that issue. Probably more about coffee and cigs than about the dentures.
It is widely reported that Vivien Leigh can't stand his bad breath!
@@mmhthree My thoughts exactly. I also think he had to know it, and why of course, didn't he get it together? It seems it was widely known and you'd think it would have been an embarrassment. But, he was, after all, Clark Gable! Ha!
@@shawneedalegrimm9728 Ya, at least use some mouthwash when a kissing scene was coming up hehe
He also had a long running affair with Joan Crawford, with whom he remained good friends until his death.
Nope that never happened
@@kellydodson6572 He & Crawford had a long affair & made many films together, the studio told them 2 cut it off!
@@deniselawrence2094 uh no…at best it was a fling, casual thing that happen on and off for a few years in the 30s. There is no evidence (and I use “evidence” loosely, because all the evidence is merely people saying they saw this or that anyway) outside of outrageous over exaggeration that states that anything outside of the typical loose, casual sex was going on between them, as went on between Gable and many women at the time. And Crawford and many men. There was no “love affair” 🙄. And Crawford is really the only one who has said anything about it and she is an abusive bitch and a notorious liar who desperately needed attention. Forgive me if I don’t believe everything that she says. Gable’s one and only love affair was with Carole Lombard. ❤️
@@deniselawrence2094 Clark gable had affairs with most of his co stars.
He had lived in Meadville, PA (more specifically Vernon Township),for a bit and Gable Hill is named after him.
Wonderful actor, very good looking.
Very good and informative piece. You generally do a great job keeping one's attention. This is among your best pieces, although I agree with the prior posted comments.
Thanks for sharing 😀👍
Good info. 🙌 I would like to play these for seniors. Sadly the background music would be too loud for them to hear what is being said. It would be greatly appreciated if the background music could be eliminated. Thanks for any help you could do in order to bring seniors some joy in their day 🙏🙏🙋
I live hour away from Cadiz an 30 min from dean martins home town
He didn't have bad breath. Shelley winters confirms this.
Shelley Winters???
John Wayne said Gable was extremely handsome even though he dislike him. An honest judgement.
That was great! Thank you!
An unknown secret to the public is that David Jansen, of the original tv show "The Fugitive", was his son. He used to hang out at Gables ranch often. If you look at Gables early movies, without his mustache, Jensen looks just like him. Even his voice is the same as Gables. This information was from someone who was a friend of Gable.
David Jansen
what other proof is there of this?
@@deniselawrence2094 I don't need to give you anything!
@@tjnewman1576 Excuse me 4 asking 4 facts!
It wouldn't surprise me. After all, he raped Loretta Young and had a baby so who knows how many other women he raped and had babies with. Since, he was a womanizer it's believable he could have many other kids.
His grandson died in my building. Wasn’t found for a bit.
With all due respect for people who might think differently, I think the best movie stars of all time are John Wayne and Clark Gable. All the rest come after them, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, Jeff Chandler, Alan Ladd, Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston.
And concerning the girls, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Jean Simmons, Donna Reed, Maureen O'Hara, Jean Arthur, Laraine Day, Janet Leigh, June Allyson, Debbie Reynolds.
God bless them all for all the joy they gave us from the screen.
I thought it was Cary Grant who insisted on taking showers to avoid sitting in dirty bathwater.
Perhaps both actors had that bathing preference.
They were right.
Nah. William Holden 😀
GONE WITH THE WIND....RIP....Clark!
As well as being a very good great actor he made a lot of real great movies. He was handsome in a kind of rugged way like Humphrey Bogart. A real nice actor nice guy.
Well, except for the rape thing 😒
Stories are stories seriously would you turn down Clark Gable. My father looked so much like him they could have been brothers. My Dad could have easily been his stand in for his movie. Believe me my father never had a problem getting a woman. In Clarks eye’s with such easy access does no really mean no. Do we really know anything about these people?
Did you forget the part about him being a rapist? He hid it until pretty much his death. Yeah, a real nice guy.
@@susanroot1117 Was thinking that. That's like saying OJ Simpson was a great guy except the part where he murdered his wife.
One of my favorite movies is Run Silent Run Deep in which Clark Gable plays a submarine commander in WWII....I have noticed in several scenes he appears to have hand tremors and maybe a little bit of a head tremor.....Has anything come out about this ? The movie was made in 1958 and Gable died in 1960, so I have wondered if he had any chronic problems with the shaking. Can you advise ?
I’ve read that his years of heavy smoking caused him to develop what some people believe was an early stage of Parkinson’s disease which caused the shaking.
His daughter looks exactly like him. She's a very pretty lady
He never acknowledged her, supported her, visited her, or showed her any attention or affection.
@@nadyarossi5102 well, this video says that, in other words, but I think he didn't know of her existence, because of how the mother was, and why weren't there a bigger stink about her rape? Kinda reminds me of the "boys town" controversy in early 1900's!!!
@@nadyarossi5102 because he raped her mother.
I wished for the mention of Joan Crawford, I think she loved him very much and they had an ongoing affair that lasted years.
Charlton Heston is the greatest of all.
Too good ‼️ Too much stuff to talk about and I just don't know what to say or do
Thank you for this information about Clark Gable. Additionally, thank you for wearing that shirt. Your arms are mesmerizing.
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He had bad breath ?? Shaved his chest, i think some guys do do that..
Dude... did you call Arthur Miller a "screenwriter"? Wut in the fuk?
Unbelievable
For those who forgot or never knew ( like the creator of this YT presentation): Miller wrote one of the greatest American Plays, "Death of a Salesman" for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Also wrote "All My Sons," "The Crucible" and "View from the Bridge." He did write "The Misfits" and several other screenplays, but his fame was from his Broadway accomplishments.
Wanna know more about his relationship with his son, David Janssen.
He was a star in a time when that actually meant something.
Beyond History Blog
Clark Gable’s German Roots
Andrea Bentschneider - 16. November 2015 - Birthdays, Celebrities, General, German-American
On 16 November 1960, Clark Gable, one of the most iconic and successful Hollywood actors, passed away. Born in 1901, he had made movie history with classics such as “Mutiny on the Bounty” and “Gone with the Wind”. He was said to be a box-office guarantee and was honoured with an Academy Award for his role in “It happened one night” in 1934. He played alongside Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly, just to name a few, and became a movie legend.
His family background unfortunately wasn’t all that shiny. His mother died when Gable was a toddler and his family faced financial problems a lot - when he decided to become an actor, at first he had to build up his chronically undernourished body. His family history though is very interesting from a genealogical point of view. The roots of Gable’s father went back to Native Americans while his mother apparently had German heritage: Adeline née Hershelman was born in 1869 to John and rosetta Clark Hershelman in Pennsylvania. They were part of the cultural group called Pennsylvania Dutch.
This was the name for early German immigrants that settled especially in Pennsylvania. The biggest immigration waves happened from the late 17th to the late 18th century. Their own dialect was called Pennsylvania Dutch as well - the word Dutch here refers not to Dutch people, but to the German word “deutsch”. Clark Gables great grandfather, Johann Jakob Hershelman, had migrated from Trippstadt, Germany, to the US in the mid-19th century. Back then, Trippstadt belonged to the kingdom of Bavaria, today is part of the federal state Rhineland-Palatine.
This way the American icon Clark Gable also carried a piece of migration history with him and pleases us today not only with his movies but also from a genealogical viewpoint!
I remenber him. He was so very goodlooking . Oh when he would enter the room everyone. Would just stare at him.him and his top hat
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He had a special charisma not like the actors now a days.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn! (I couldn't help it)
I am hating this channel more and more as they tend to word things and leave out information so they manipulate.
He had bad breath ? Is that where looney tunes got the idea of pepe le pew ?
Your music is over whelming. He has a nice voice, you don’t need that in the background.
Gone With The Wind 💚
You would think with his obsession about cleanliness that he would have rinsed his mouth out after he ate & brushed his teeth often. Dentures don't smell, what's trapped inside them does. I always felt bad for his daughter, it was not her fault how she was conceived. He was a good actor but not really a decent guy. JMO
I would like to imagine that the young Loretta Young was in love with Gable and that their encounter was consensual. They allegedly flirted a lot on the set of their movie together. I truly believed that they were carrying on an affair with one another, and Young felt compelled to lie about their encounters because she became pregnant and was unmarried.
Keep spinning your own fairytale, while accusing her of lying. Disgusting.
@@kimvarki I'm not the one who thought this up. I've read many sources that have said the same.
@@chalkymelon Ah yes, let's believe the "many sources" instead of her own testimony. I'm sure those "many sources" also claimed that she lied about it years later, when she found out what date r/ping actually is. It's still disgusting, you know. Whether you imagined it yourself or decided to believe these imaginings of others.
@@kimvarkiI don't think my believing sources is disgusting, but you obviously can choose to believe that it is disgusting. Thank you very much.
@@chalkymelon No, the fact that you would rather believe those sources over her is what disgusts me. Not believing women has always been a huge problem in society for forever and it's depressing to see this continue even today.
OMG!!!! I LOVE *TCM* I JUST WATCHED
*SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE* soooooo AWESOME A MUST WATCH IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT. 🥰😘🌹R.I.P CLARK 💋❤
Yep, very handsome men
Probably the handsomest of them all, excepting Victoe Mature, Steve Reeves, Tyrone Power, and Ronald Colman.
My grandmother loved gone with the wind.
Really... you're REALLY going to say that Marilyn died of an overdose...and leave it there? Who are you afraid of, the FBI or Homeland Security?
Exactly what I was thinking....
this video isn't about her so its totally valid that he skipped some parts of her death
I'm 56years old but I remember watching the first time seen him I said mam I'm going to marry him when I'm 16,she replied why 16 me ,because then I'm a woman and I heard he likes blondes,I was only 5 then,
Was he a user?..............Wow. I didn't know this about Clark.
Gable and Young played together many years later in another movie. Would a raped woman agree to play with a rapist? Absurd!
Where do you get your information? Gable wasn't a rapist. That is total slander. He loved women and they loved him. He made a mistake, but does that mean his good name has to be trashed in his death?
"He made a mistake"
Oh is that what we are calling it now? "A mistake"? He's responsible for his own actions, so yeah, he deserves the trashing, since he never had to face any repercussions while he was alive.
And I thought the King of Hollywood was Douglas Fairbanks Snr
ya, in the silent era
That’s crazy 😮I love him in gone with the wind 😳
My Dad was his twin they looked alike but I thought my dad was better looking lol
"Grunge",,,straight White Male Icon, Ike endorser,,,,I'm thinking this is gonna be a hit-piece.
Audio. But no picture ??? Idk
There were lot more things to add about him then video would have been of 30-45 mins , but they had to bring up dat rape thing wheather he did it or not , we dont know if she is playing angel here after a decades and demeening Gables image.
I read somewhere that he didn’t clean his dentures properly & sadly he had horrid breath…
@@jodi2847 how was it debunked? Just curious
Sending prayers 🙏❤️🙏🙏❤️ God 🙏 Bless him and his beloved family ❤️❤️❤️
The music in the background is very annoying. Interesting content though.
Is it true that he was biracial and if so, where can I read up on it?
raised Bunker Spreckles with second wife
My grandpa looks exactly like Clark Gable, you would think I'm lying if I had a picture I would show you and I'll be like oh my God yes OMG but my mom's side of the family everybody look white so you know but we all fine as hell!!
And then I hear it in the biography that he was from Ohio the same place I'm from it's the most weirdest thing I wonder if my mom knows that and my grandmother
What was his height
Left his wife when he made it, what a douch. He wasn't even that handsome
Crying.
good question who murdered Marilyn Monroe???? ( oh wait you did'nt think she dis it herself did you?)
He had ears like fresh prince did he bend as well
He was not a womanizer he was a sociopath
Such an attraktive man
I always cringe that so many of Classic Hollywood favourites were so damn Right Wing Conservative....even as they fought against Hilter / Nazism and participated in many "community good works", they still embraced Hard Core Republican politics and the White racial Status Quo. The great Frank Capra, director of It Happened One Night, was surprisingly very Conservative Republican even as he made all those Humanitarian Populist themed films. Gable seems almost schizo and paradoxical to me .He, too, was a hardcore Republican even while married to Lombard, who was a staunch Democrat liberal. I have trouble reconciling Clark's well-known advocacy and friendship with Hattie McDaniel. But then McDaniel was a Misguided Black Conservative, who "knew her place" as a Black woman and pandered to Whites to bolster her career. And what about Gable's rumoured Bi-sexual behaviour...? if it furthered his career, he didnt mind turning a trick with an Influential dude.
What a jerk, left the woman who made him succeed.
And raped Loretta Young.
Love Clark great man
What happened to his grandson tells everything about him
I doubt the rape story. According to what I've read about Gable, he was constantly being pursued by women. Not just his attractive costars, but secretaries, maids, waitresses, studio employees, and extras, not all of them necessarily attractive.
Yet he obliged many of these star struck women out of gentlemanly politeness, according to one friend who quoted Gable as claiming it being not out of lust so much, as mostly "not wanting to hurt their feelings".
Olivia de Havilland loathed Gable to the end of her life - saying he had no respect for women - - it's funny to hear men who should know how man think and act - how "pushy" they can be - trying to "have their way" - rush to his defense - and accuse Loretta of making it all up - - sad to say - when i finally heard Loretta's accusation - i thought that had to be it - it explained Gable's reticence towards their daughter (he met her only once) - and it explains Young's reluctance to talk about Gable to her daughter - her daughter had to drag it out of her - but Young never brought up the "date rape" to Judy - she mentioned it to a friend who would write a biography revealing it after Judy's death - so Judy thought to the end of her life that she was born out of her parent's love
@@johneyon5257 More likely out of her parents' mutual lust. Different times, different mores, attitudes and social pressures bred a lot of butt covering fabrications, subterfuges and excuses in those days. Especially when careers were at stake.
I find it highly unlikely that Gable raped anyone.
Although we will never really know the truth about the “rape” accusation Loretta Young still was very friendly towards Clark Gable and it what is so, confusing about her accusations. Lying to her daughter for all those year or keep those so called secrets well, Loretta grew up catholic and in her contract there was an “ ethic’s clause.” For most stars if they broke that it meant they would lose a very lucrative career. That’s why her what she claim ; for me does not make sense. How can she stay friends with her rapist for years and yet tell her close friends he raped her? Also when she became pregnant she was only twenty and she was very close to her mother. In those days being catholic you don’t have sex, get pregnant much less have an abortion.She was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Those were very different times and if he did rape her why did she torcher herself by still befriending him? Or did she not have a choice but to be his friend? It’s perplexing and complicated.
How extensive were his dentures?
Man, any photos of him without his teeth?