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[edit] Trivia
Some of the trivia sound like romantic urban legends and really need to be substantiated. Since I'm no authority on Gable, I haven't removed them -- but someone with the knowhow might want to take a look at them. Particularly the ones about the Greta Garbo fued, the Adolph Hitler bounty and the tombstone quote seem fishy to me. 195.184.109.162 23:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Estate
His former estate in Encino, California was carved up to make several homes in the 1970s.
The article Judy Lewis says that Clark Gable and Loretta Young had a child. I asked my grandmother and she said that it was never proven. Is she correct? If so, it needs to be removed from Judy Lewis. I'm going to post it on her article, too. Mike H 00:53, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)
- My understanding is that Judy Lewis has stated this on a number of occasions,and for many years it was a rumour, but I'm sure that Loretta Young towards the end of her life, supported her story. It needs to be checked somehow before removing it. Rossrs 13:16, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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- I don't know if anyone has verified this yet, but Loretta said she indeed became pregnant by Clark Gable and give birth to Judy in the book "Forever Young."Chandler75 04:05, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Crash incident
I have removed the following:
- In September 1942 a Dakota took off from Pershore Airfield, Worcestershire, England with an American Film crew on board starting to make an air gunnery film. Experiencing engine trouble they made an emergency landing on Perdiswell Airfield, Worcester's grass field.The plane slid across the wet grass and crashed through the boundary fence onto the Bilford Road and into the Cities rubbish tip, damaging the landing gear and one engine.
- On board was General Spaatz, the senior American in Europe, who broke his ankle. He was heard to grumble "I didn't cross the Atlantic to land in the towns trash heap". In the Co-Pilots seat was a very shaken Film Star Clark Gable who was helped out by the RAF police on gate duty.According to official records he was on flight training in Texas, but had actually taken leave and hitched a lift with Spaatz and the film crew across the Atlantic.They were all taken to the RAF Officers mess in Perdiswell Hall for a little drop of something for shock.
- The plane blocked the road for some days until it was dismantled and loaded onto an RAF 'Queen Mary' long trailer.
- I have tried without success to trace what happened to the plane "Idiots Delight" named after one of Gables pre-war films. Is there any official record of this interesting incident? Did any of the film taken survive? I would be grateful for any information to help completethe record. I was only twelve at the time but remember the Flying Instuctor pilots who were billeted with us telling my motherall about the handsome Gable.
- Photographs of "Idiots Delight" are available. Max
Until the incident is verified by official record and/or a first-hand account, it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article. Certainly statesments like, "I would be grateful for any information to help completethe [sic] record" don't belong in the article. — Walloon 19:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC) First Hand Account. I have a letter dated 1988 from the Sergeant who helped Gable from the plane and then lived in Northern Ireland. He was suffering from severe arthritis and is probably not alive now. I was also present when Flying Officer Davies, Senior Pediswell Instructor and Flying Officer Medland told my parents about the incident. Coupled with the photographs of "Idiots Delight" lying in the 'trash tip' surely the incident deserves its place in history. Max Sinclair All I would like to know is did "Idiots Delight" survive the war. American records have proved hopeless. Max
[edit] Drunk driving
I have removed:
- Gable was once involved in a traffic accident while intoxicated. A pedestrian was killed. Supposedly, Mayer used his influence to get the incident hushed up. [source: CJAD Radio, May 14/ 06]
This it too serious an allegation — homicide — to rely on something someone once heard on the radio. The recent book Clark Gable: A Biography, by Warren G. Morris, discusses Gable's drunk driving accident on p. 279:
- In March [1945], Gable's heavy drinking finally caught up with him. While driving home from a party celebrating the America victory on Iwo Jima, he lost control of the car as he passed through Bristol Circle, a dense tree-filled traffic island on Sunset Boulevard in residential Brentwood in West Los Angeles. . . .
- Howard Strickling [MGM's publicity manager] later claimed that Gable crashed into a tree on the front lawn of the home of Harry Friedman, a talent agent for MCA. According to Strickling, Friedman knew enough about the industry's penchant for secrecy to phone MGM instead of the cops.
- "It wouldn't have been good if a photographer arrived and snapped Clark Gable lying on the lawn covered with blood and his car all cracked up," Strickling said. After a studio doctor arrived to patch up Gable, he was taken to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, and the wrecked car was quickly towed away.
Morris interviewed Strickling on this circa 1972, long after Gable was dead. Strickling is quoted candidly on Gable, good and bad, elsewhere throughout the book. — Walloon 01:43, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The picture??
The picture looks misrable. In all fairness, he was quite good looking. I think this picture isn't a good representation. How about changing it to something else - like this one?
http://members.lycos.nl/petrabr/tara/reth.jpg —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.181.222.89 (talk) 07:04, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
