Gable was married at the time to oil heiress Ria Langham, and the affair was kept quiet.

The situation proved a major obstacle in Gable accepting the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, as MGM head Louis B. Mayer sweetened the deal for a reluctant Gable by giving him money to settle a divorce agreement with Langham and marry Lombard.

( Gable was married to Maria " Ria " Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham.

Gable was married at the time to " Ria " Langham.

* Maria " Ria " Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable, Texas socialite, married to Clark Gable 1931-1939

However, despite rumors about Gable being uncomfortable with Cukor on the set, nothing in the internal memos of David O. Selznick indicates or suggests that Clark Gable played any role in Cukor's dismissal from the film.

This has been confirmed by Hollywood biographer E. J. Fleming, who has recounted that, during a particularly difficult scene, Gable erupted publicly, screaming: " I can't go on with this picture.

As historian John Gable wrote, " In later years Roosevelt would describe the Battle of San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898, as ' the great day of my life ' and ' my crowded hour .'....

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

It releases in theaters, along with Eugene O ' Neill's experimental play Strange Interlude ( starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable ), and will go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.

" Blackie " Norton ( Clark Gable ), a saloonkeeper and gambler in the notorious Barbary Coast, owns the Paradise Club on Pacific Street.

Gable and Tracy also made two other films together, Test Pilot and Boom Town, before Tracy eventually insisted on the same top billing clause in his MGM contract that Gable had enjoyed, effectively ending the American cinema's most famous screen team.

Extensive drumlin fields are found in Patagonia, for example near Punta Arenas Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Airport and on Navarino and Gable Island in the Beagle Channel.

On March 29, 1939, during a break in production on Gone with the Wind, Gable and Lombard drove out to Kingman, Arizona and were married in a ceremony with only Gable's press agent, Otto Winkler, in attendance.

Gable attended the launch of the SS Carole Lombard on January 15, 1944, the two-year anniversary of Lombard's record breaking war bond drive.

Capra understood their dissatisfaction and tried to lighten the mood by having Gable play practical jokes on Colbert, who responded with good humor.

Cary and the studio eventually settled on " Cary Grant " ( Grant thought the letters " C " and " G " to be lucky: they had brought previous success for both Clark Gable and Gary Cooper ).

McLaglen won Best Actor for his portrayal of Gypo Nolan, beating out Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone for the better-remembered Mutiny on the Bounty, and Ford won Best Director.

Then came The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) as Norma Shearer's character's malevolent father ( although Laughton was only three years older than Shearer ); Les Misérables ( 1935 ) as Inspector Javert ; one of his most famous screen roles in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) as Captain William Bligh, co-starring with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian ; and Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 ) as the very English butler transported to early 1900s America.

Reckless test pilot Jim Lane ( Clark Gable ) is forced to land on a Kansas farm in his aircraft, the " Drake Bullet " ( SEV-S2 NR70Y, a modified civilian racer version of the U. S. Army Air Corps P-35 ), where he meets Ann Barton ( Myrna Loy ).

When RKO was unable to get Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Franchot Tone on loan from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the film and Gunga Din was delayed, Hawks wanted to work on another film and began looking for new project.

Gerry Gable was subsequently arrested and held at Hornsey police station, where on 14 January 1964, along with Manny Carpel and another, Gable admitted breaking in with intent to steal private papers.

Among the films Mitchum passed on during the decade was John Huston's The Misfits, the last film of its stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, the Academy Award – winning Patton, and Dirty Harry.

* In Sporting Blood ( 1931 ), Gambler Warren ' Rid ' Riddell ( Clark Gable ) wins a racehorse, Tommy Boy, on a bet.

Farther away from the mill, on a hillside at the east end of the district, stand dozens of Four-Squares, Gable Fronts, and late Gothic Revival types built after the mill expansions of 1898 and 1912.

The ushers who led them to their seats included Clark Gable, Fredric March, and playwright Moss Hart.

On March 2, 2008 Cropper and Sebastian were guests on the Vega Sunday Session with host Mark Gable from the rock band the Choirboys.

Built in 1902, the now-Oatman Hotel is the oldest two-story adobe structure in Mohave County, a Mohave County historical landmark and is especially famous as the honeymoon stop of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard after their wedding in Kingman on March 18, 1939.

Christopher Gable, CBE ( 13 March 194023 October 1998 ) was an English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor.

The first blow was the death of Mayor Gable on December 2, followed five days later by the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7.

Gable as of 2012 hosts his own radio show The Awesome Eighties on 107. 7 2GO ( 2GGO-FM ) Central Coast.

The novel is the basis of the Academy Award – winning 1939 film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.

In the 1939 film version of Gone with the Wind, for the role of Rhett Butler, Clark Gable was an almost immediate favorite for both the public and producer David O. Selznick ( except for Gable himself ).

In the 1939 film adaptation, Rhett was played by Clark Gable.

Fairbanks died in 1939, and was deposed as the " King of Hollywood " title by Clark Gable, who was by that time, along with Carole Lombard, the " it " couple.

Gable and Lombard were titled " The King of Hollywood and the Queen of Screwball Comedy ", respectively, and eloped during a break in production on Gable's Gone with the Wind in 1939.

Also in 1939, Canutt doubled Clark Gable in the burning of Atlanta in Gone With the Wind ; he also appeared as a renegade accosting Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ) as she crosses a bridge in a carriage driving through a shantytown.

*" Puttin ' on the Ritz "-Clark Gable and Ensemble from Idiot's Delight ( 1939 )

Darker areas show the State of Jefferson, as proposed by Gilbert Gable in 1941.

Gable proposed creating Jefferson to draw attention to the condition of the state roads along the Oregon-California border, which at the time were oiled dirt roads that became impassable in rain or snow, and hampered economic development.

Clark Gable is said to have proposed to Carole Lombard there.