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Clark Gable

Clark Gable

A Biography
by Harris, Warren G.
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    The King of Hollywood receives the treatment from biographer Harris in this unflinching look at one of film's biggest stars. The
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The King of Hollywood receives the treatment from biographer Harris in this unflinching look at one of film's biggest stars. The thrust of this birth-to-death look at the Oscar winner and notorious womanizer contends that Gable used the women in his life--significantly, his first two wives--to quickly climb his way to the top of Hollywood.

Author:
Harris, Warren G.
ISBN:
9780307237149
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
408
Publish Date:
10/25/2005
Publisher:
Three Rivers Pr
Language:
English

Portions copyright 2005 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • While throngs of female fans may have worshiped Gable, Harris illustrates that the "King of Hollywood" 's true self was barely visible beyond the camera's glare. Born in 1901 in rural Ohio to a "wildcatter" father and a mother who died not a year after he was born, Gable seemed more suited to becoming an oilrig operator than a movie star. But by the early 1920s, he had found his road to the big time: women. Harris pulls no punches in describing how the man who would become the "King" used many a queen including his first two wives to reach the status of celebrity. From Gable's early days with traveling stage shows to his fast climb up the Hollywood ladder, Harris (Gable and Lombard) presents a not-so-attractive side of Gable to combat his romanticized star image. His never-ending womanizing, utter denial of an illegitimate daughter and his insecurity over his acting abilities are qualities never before so illustrated in print. To most, Clark Gable stood alone atop the motion-picture world in 1939. He'd won an Oscar for his performance in It Happened One Night, had just completed his role as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind and had finally settled down with actor Carole Lombard, his third and he was sure would be final wife. Three years later, Lombard died in a plane crash. Her death changed everything. While Harris never says so explicitly, his description of Gable's string of box-office bombs, increased appetite for Scotch, and bitterness toward MGM executives make it plain that Gable had lost his one true love and his vigor for life. Those who wish to keep Gable on the pedestal Hollywood built for him should beware. Harris isn't as kind as Hollywood. Agents, Dan Strone and Owen Laster. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
 
 
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