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Clark Gable Clark Gable and Greta Garbo seated at an outdoor table in a scene from the 1931 film Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise), with Garbo holding a fork and Gable looking at her. Clark Gable stands at the foot of a bed while Jean Harlow, in a light dress, sits on the bed in a scene from the 1932 film Red Dust. Two other men stand nearby. Lobby card for It Happened One Night shows Clark Gable holding Claudette Colbert in his arms, with film title and credits in yellow text on a blue background with a crescent moon. It Happened One Night scene from Mutiny on the Bounty Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald gaze at each other in a close, romantic pose, dressed in formal attire for a promotional photo from the 1936 film San Francisco. Lobby card for Gone with the Wind shows Clark Gable as Rhett Butler holding Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara, with bold red title text and a yellow credits box. Gone with the Wind Clark Gable embraces Carole Lombard from behind as she leans back against him, both dressed in formal evening attire in a scene from No Man of Her Own (1932).
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Clark Gable: References & Edit History

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Gabe Essoe, The Films of Clark Gable (1970, reissued 1973); Lyn Tornabene, Long Live the King (1976, reissued 1978); Jane Ellen Wayne, Clark Gable: Portrait of a Misfit (1993).

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Modified link of Web site: Official Site of Clark Gable. Mar 27, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 28, 2026
Anniversary information added. Nov 12, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - The Essay - Five Screen Gods - Clark Gable. Apr 14, 2025
Links added. Jul 22, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 05, 2024
Add new Web site: Official Site of Clark Gable. Apr 03, 2023
Replaced photograph. Jan 14, 2021
Added cross-references. Feb 28, 2020
Add new Web site: Ohio History Central - Biography of Clark Gable. May 09, 2019
Article revised and updated. Sep 28, 2017
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of Clark Gable. Mar 31, 2017
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Biography of Clark Gable. Feb 17, 2014
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Clark Gable. Feb 17, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Clark Gable. Aug 02, 2013
Media added. Aug 04, 2008
Media added. Dec 21, 2006
Added new Web site: Reel Classics - Clark Gable. Aug 29, 2006
Article revised. Nov 09, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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