Clark Gable
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He had roles in more than 60 motion pictures in multiple genres during a career that lasted 37 years, three decades of which was as a leading man. Gable died of a heart attack at the age of 59; his final on-screen appearance was as an aging cowboy in The Misfits, released posthumously in 1961. Born and raised in Ohio, Gable traveled to Hollywood where he began his film career as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926. He progressed to supporting roles for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his first leading role in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) was alongside Joan Crawford, who requested him for the part. His role in the romantic drama Red Dust (1932) with reigning sex symbol Jean Harlow, made him MGM's biggest male star. Gable won the Academy Award for Best Acto...
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Gene Kelly: An American in Hollywood
Arthur Miller: Writer
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Marilyn at the Movies
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
Restoring a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Making 'The Misfits'
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
I Don't Even Like Apple Pie...
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind- RERemembering Marilyn
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Eve and Marilyn
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
That's Entertainment, Part II
Dear Mr. Gable
Uncertain Verification
The Big Parade of Comedy
The Misfits
It Started in Naples
But Not for Me
Teacher's Pet
Run Silent, Run Deep
Band of Angels
The King and Four Queens
The Tall Men
Soldier of Fortune
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Betrayed
Mogambo
Never Let Me Go
Lone Star
Across the Wide Missouri
To Please a Lady
Key to the City
Any Number Can Play
Command Decision
Homecoming
The Hucksters
Adventure
Wings Up
Combat America
Somewhere I'll Find You
Honky Tonk
They Met in Bombay
Comrade X
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Boom Town
Strange Cargo
Gone with the Wind
Idiot's Delight
Too Hot to Handle
Test Pilot
Parnell
Saratoga
San Francisco
Wife vs. Secretary
Love on the Run
Cain and Mabel
Mutiny on the Bounty
Call of the Wild
After Office Hours
China Seas
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
It Happened One Night
Men in White
Manhattan Melodrama
Forsaking All Others
Chained
Dancing Lady
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Hold Your Man
Night Flight
The White Sister
No Man of Her Own
Strange Interlude
Polly of the Circus
Red Dust
Sporting Blood
The Finger Points
The Easiest Way
Hell Divers
The Painted Desert
Laughing Sinners
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
The Secret 6
Possessed
Night Nurse
A Free Soul
Dance, Fools, Dance
One Minute to Play
North Star
The Plastic Age
Forbidden Paradise
White Man