WILLIAM CLARK GABLE

American actor. Bore the nickname "King of Hollywood". Filmed in the lead roles in 90 films: "It Happened One Night" (1934, prize "Oscar"), "Gone With the Wind" (1939), "The Misfits" (1960), etc.

Clark was born in a working class family. His father was an oilman and was seldom at home. Raising the boy was engaged by his stepmother, a woman of strict rules. Gable never shone success in school and not even received a secondary education. Neglected his studies and having worked in a factory first, and then on an oil rig, Clark decided to become an actor. He got a laborer in a small theater, which toured the whole country. Finally, he ended up in Portland, where he was admitted to a local theater troupe. It was here that he learned the basics of acting.

Gable then went in search of fortune in Hollywood, where he starred in the crowd. Directors did not immediately make out the hidden capabilities Gable, which is not about women, mad with this handsome. Finally a young actor called the attention of management studio "Em-gee-em," Clark and rapidly ascended to Hollywood Olympus. Is it possible, for example, forget the handsome Rhett Butler from the acclaimed movie "Gone With the Wind"? At one time he was in love with millions. And Clark Gable did not disappoint his fans. Even among the more or less well-known Hollywood stars hardly possible to find one that could not boast of its famous smoothie made happy with their attention. Maybe that's why many intimate secrets actor soon became public.

Gable remained a modest man, even when the world turned into a star screen. At the ceremony, the "Oscar" Gable said, "But the size of the hats that I still will not change. " He patiently gave hundreds of autographs, saying that only because the audience he joined the ranks of the unemployed. In his spare time Clark went fishing or hunting, and in the company of unknown actors from the crowd, and studio technicians.

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With a relatively high growth (185 cm) Gable moved very gracefully, beautifully dressed and was just obsessed with personal hygiene, such as taking a shower several times a day, removing body hair, which gave rise to suspicions of sexual orientation. But those suspicions were apparently unfounded - too many beautiful women in bed, was visited by a fatal brunette.

At the first stage of his career, Clark is clearly preferred the mature women. Evil tongues, there was talk that the aging mistress of a powerful actor helped the young to succeed. And his first marriage can be called a marriage of convenience, not love.

His first wife, Josephine Dillon, was older than his wife for seventeen years and later claimed that between them have never been close. Their marriage was a formality. Gable then married a wealthy 46-year-old Ria Langham, who had until then divorce her next husband. Gable and himself admitted that he liked more mature women, and once even remarked: "A mature woman saw more, more and more heard knows what a young girl . . . I'm always ready to give preference to a mature woman. " However, after "Gone With the Wind," when the actor came to fame, a place in his bed, firmly took the young and beautiful girls.

In 1933 he began an affair with a 25-year-old Joan Crawford. "I do not believe that there is a woman who can stand in front of sexuality Gable" - says Joan. Crawford and Gable have long been close friends, although they had to yield to the demands of film studios, where they then were removed, and stop loving relationship, as the actors at that time had their own families.

Gable soon became acquainted with the Hollywood beauty, Carole Lombard, the greatest love of his life. Together they starred in one film, "Not her man" (1932). Humor Carol and her kind, close to the wind, brought humor to her quiet and reserved Gable. Soon they were appearing everywhere together.

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They called each other "mommy" and "daddy. " Lombard liked to make fun of Gable always serious. She often took part in his hunting and fishing expeditions. Later she recalled how she and Gable make love while hunting ducks.

Carol Gable became the wife after his divorce from Ria Langham. After the wedding, Carol has changed, become more calm and restrained. Their family life was happy. Spouses afflicted only the absence of children. One of their friends later said: "To have children, they had sex in every position known to man. They would do it, leaning out the window if someone just said that after that, Carol becomes pregnant. "

Gable was very fond of his wife, but simply could not be "a man for one woman," Carol and occasionally exploded, and made her husband the scene, especially when she heard rumors before about another affair with Clark's co-star.

Three years after their marriage, Carol was killed in a plane crash. Among the debris found her wedding ring, a gift from her husband. For Gable, it was a heavy blow he could not understand why everyone as if it, but without it . . .

Continue movie career had no strength. Life seemed meaningless. Gable entered the officer's flight school. In Europe, he fought with Nazi aces, miraculously survived. He received numerous awards for flights over Berlin. 43, Gable returned to Hollywood.

All his life he was searching for a woman, similar to Carol. After countless love affairs with many different women Gable married Sylvia Ashley. The marriage soon broke up, and Gable said he was drunk when invited Sylvia to marry him.

At age 54, he married for the fifth and final time, having found, at last, in the form of a little blonde Kay Spreklz a copy of his longtime love. Kay was sixteen years younger than her husband and tried to walk around on Carol. Gable with his new wife began to lead a quiet and measured life at his ranch.

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November 16, 1960 after filming the next movie Clark Gable died of a heart attack the ranch. Four months later, in Kay had a son . . .

Gable was often quite indiscriminate in choosing their sexual partners. For example, he used the services of expensive prostitutes on call. When he was once asked why he throws money down the drain, because it is only a finger beckon, as it will go for any woman, Gable said, "I'm doing this because I'm paying her, we do our job, and it pleased and leaves. Other women try to continue the relationship, are dreaming of a big novel, they want everything to be like in the movies. I do not want to be the greatest lover in the world. "

Gable did not exist for ugly women. One day his friend asked him why he was in contact with the "ugly". Gable said, "Come on, woman as woman. " More than ten years Clark maintained a close relationship with Hollywood writer, not a beauty. She once told his close friend: "When we made love with Clark, I did not feel much pleasure to so long as not opened her eyes and did not realize that a man who lies to me - himself Clark Gable! It was then I began to feel terrible excitement. "

Gable at different times of an affair with virtually all the leading actresses in Hollywood, of Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner to "platinum blonde" Jean Harlow. Once again, considering the publicity photo kinokorporatsii "Em-gee-uh", which depicted the most famous actresses in Hollywood, Gable said, "What beautiful women! Just think of it, because I was close with every one of them!"

Clark was twenty-eight years older than Grace Kelly. When they met, Grace, Princess of Monaco, the future was just beginning his film career. She agreed to appear almost free after learning that her partner will be the star Gable and Ava Gardner. "Sit down and holding my breath, listen to the main news - she wrote to his friend Bill Allin, imitating the style of book Salinger" The Catcher in the Rye.

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"- I'll be filming in Africa, together with the old Clark Gable!"

When Donald Sinden, the young British actor, who played in "Mogambo" husband's heroine Grace, arrived in late November in Nairobi, he saw that Gable and Kelly have become inseparable friends. Ava Gardner at the time was pregnant by her husband Frank Sinatra, so Gable chose a new object of attention.

"As their romance - she later wrote in his memoirs - that at first sight, it was clear that Clarke was devouring eyes Gracie, and she - it. At that time neither he nor she were burdened with a family, and indeed, In my opinion, any normal woman just could not help but fall in love with Clark. "

Like Ava Gardner wrote in his memoirs, he clearly lacked the eloquence, and if approached him and asked, "Hey, Clark, my friend, how are you?" - He was lost and did not know what to say. However, Gable was still a master of a sly smile in his mustache - at one time the smile turned heads Scarlett? Hara - and therefore easily won the heart of Grace. She came to Africa to play along with the "King of Hollywood", it succeeded. Gracie loved sneak into his room and called out: "Bah!" - Which in Swahili means "father. "

The couple did not even think to pretend. Sinden in his autobiography, "Some memoirs" recalled how one night by mistake, wandered the dark room Clark. There he found the "king" in bed with a girl, both were completely naked.

In those days, when Grace was not busy on the set, they left early in the morning on an old jeep ride through the savanna. Throwing off his clothes, swam in Lake Victoria. Clark and Grace felt perfectly in each other's company. And only one girl could not compete with Hollywood stars - in the use of alcoholic beverages.

However, after the New Year their quiet life came to an end: the film crew back to civilization. Rumors about the affair and Grace Clark ahead of themselves. When participants arrived at the studio "MGM" in Borhemvud for the shooting, the reporters were right there waiting for further developments.

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Grace and Clark settled in the luxurious suites hotel "Savoy", overlooking the Thames.

Four times married man, behind which was thirty journeys from place to place, and countless novels, Gable, canny, knowing when to make your point. However, Grace like a turn of events was a novelty, and her letters to her friend in New York are filled with genuine sorrow. "When we arrived in London, it seemed to put on public display. It was Clark Gable. I - no. "

Clark Gable, of course, was much higher than ordinary philanderer, and he liked Grace quite frankly. His public statements that he de feels for her father's only feelings were not so far from the truth. Gable carried the young actress at the airport with a friendly smile to wish her farewell. This was done deliberately in order to put an end to all rumors. However, Grace was strange affectation. In the eyes of several dozen reporters and cameramen, it does not restrain himself, burst into tears. And the only time she learned to see him as a senior fellow, and he accompanied her to Hollywood the festivities . . .

Marilyn Monroe has long believed Clark Gable . . . his father. At least, he reminded her of a man in the photograph, the man of whom her mother once said that it was her father.

In July 1960, at the "Meyps" in Reno, Nevada, gathered a unique collection of talents. In the movie "The Misfits" directed by John Huston had shot stars such as Gable, Monroe, Clift and Uollch. Marilyn had to play the role of Roslyn, lonely women troubled with the West, which arrives in Reno to divorce her husband. She falls in love with Guy, an inveterate individualist, a man much older than her. He trades that with two guys catches of wild horses. Played by Clark Gable.

"All these years I thought about it - she told a reporter - and now Rhett Butler! Is not he wonderful? We rehearsed for a very long scene, when suddenly he began to shake, so a little bit.

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I can not even pass how much it meant to me. To find out that someone - my hero - just a man. "

Clark Gable, a professional in the highest sense of the word, understood the value of Marilyn as an actress. He said his agent, George Cheyzinu that working with Marilyn in "The Misfits" has made this film one of the best of his paintings. But working with Marilyn, he was difficult. "Damn, I like it, but damned unprofessional. I damn well nearly went mad in the Reno, waiting for when it appears. "

Monroe is often missed shooting, began to sink in alcohol abuse and pills. With great difficulty, managed to dosnyat "The Misfits" . . .

When he learned that he died of a heart attack Clark Gable, Marilyn said through tears: "Oh my God, what a tragedy! Know him and work with him was for me great joy. Give my love and deepest sympathy to his wife, Kay. "

Kay Gable at the time was pregnant and the father did not have to see the newborn. By Marilyn she had mixed feelings. Deep down, she suspected that she gone to her head to her husband. His girlfriend Candice Rochlen Mrs. Gable said that in her opinion, "the tension caused by working with Marilyn, played a role in the death of Clark. " But the following year Marilyn is still invited to the christening newborn son, Gable, and it is so long and so passionately pressed him to her breast, that the guests feel uncomfortable.

Marilyn actually felt guilty for the death of Gable, confessing that during the filming of "The Misfits" she treated him badly. Marilyn asked Skolski Sydney: "I guess I punish her father? Vengeance on him for all the years that he made me wait?"

Actress Joan Blondell summed up a kind of line under all the statements of Clark Gable, saying: "He cared for all women. He is not worried just dead. "