Totally random choice. Today is Clark Gable day on TCM and the first movie I recorded was They Met in Bombay because it co-starred Rosalind Russell and I looooooooved her in The Women. Filmed in 1941, They Met in Bombay is about two thieves (Clark and Rosalind - and yes, I'm on a first name basis) who unknowingly go after the same jewel - after they discover each other's intentions they become partners and travel together, escaping the police. In the meantime, of course, they fall in love :) When Gable poses as a British officer, he involves himself in a battle which ironically enough earns him a hero's medal - turns out he isn't such a bad man after all :) Now, I don't know about you other women out there, but did anyone NOT fall in love with Clark Gable? Come ON! I must say though, the first Gable movie I ever saw was, probably like a lot of other people, was Gone with the Wind. I don't think he changes his character much from movie to movie so I just see Rhett Butler everywhere. Which is really just fine :) :)
Just FYI, Clark Gable was named AFI's 7th Greatest Male Stars of All Time, behind Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire and Henry Fonda. He was nominated 3 times for Oscars, winning 1 time for It Happened One Night. His nominations were for Mutiny on the Bounty and Gone with the Wind.
I haven't seen Clark Gable in any thing other than Gone With the Wind, and I think I would be like you Marlie...Rhett Butler was such an iconic role (at least for people our age) that I think I would have a really hard time seeing him as anyone else.
ReplyDeleteClark (I'm on a first name basis also) was the same in all of his movies and so I have always assumed that he really wasn't acting that much but just being himself. Therefore, no awards deserved. But, yes, we all fall in love with him. He's just so charming and yet so devilish!
ReplyDeleteClark seemed to think of himself as a very average Joe - he even said that who you saw on screen was him, so I think we are right in our assumptions.
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