
Clark Gable in Red Dust (1932)

Clark Gable in Dancing Lady (1933).


Carole Lombard & Clark Gable, 1941.
Rest In Peace the incredible Clark Gable;
February 1st 1901 - November 16th 1960 x
“I don’t believe I’m king of anything, but I know why they like to think I am. I’m not much of an actor, but I’m not bad unless it’s one of those things outside my comprehension. I work hard. I’m no Adonis, and I’m as American as the telephone poles I used to climb to make a living. So men don’t get sore if their women folks like me on the screen. I’m one of them, they know it, so it’s a compliment to them. They see me broke, in trouble, scared of things that go bump in the night, but I come out fighting. They see me making love to Jean Harlow or Claudette Colbert and they say, ‘If he can do it, I can do it,’ and figure it’ll be fun to go home and to make love to their wives.”

Clark Gable photographed by John Engstead, 1947

“I’m no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.”
Rhett: “No I don’t think I will kiss you. Although you need kissing badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.”
Scarlett: “And I suppose you think you are the proper person?”
Rhett: “I might be. If the right moment ever came.”

Clark Gable in a moment of repose during the filming of China Seas (1935), photographed by Virgil Apger.