Clark Gable

Handsome Clark Gable captured in a 1931 sitting by photographer George Hurrell. Remembered as the "The King of Hollywood", Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio. He began his career appearing as an extra in Hollywood silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for MGM in 1930. The next year, he landed his first leading role, and over the next three decades, established himself as a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for "It Happened One Night" (1934) and was also nominated for leading roles in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935). Gable is of course still best remembered as Rhett Butler in the timeless classic "Gone With The Wind" (1939). He also found success commercially and critically with films such as "Red Dust" (1932), "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934), "San Francisco" (1936), "Saratoga" (1937), "Test Pilot" (1938), "Boom Town" (1940), "The Hucksters" (1947) and "Homecoming" (1948). Gable married Sylvia Ashley in 1949, but unfortunately this marriage was short-lived and they divorced in 1952. In July 1955 he married a former sweetheart, Kathleen Williams Spreckles and became stepfather to her two children. Gable had just completed filming “The Misfits”, when he suffered a heart attack, and passed away on November 16, 1960 (aged 59). He was buried shortly afterwards in the shrine that he had built for Carole Lombard and her mother when they died, at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

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