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Article: The private life of a public image. (Hollywood Spotlight).(Clark Gable: A Biography)(Brief Article)
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IN 1931, LEGENDARY FILM PRODUCER Jack Warner viewed a screen test for an unknown actor named Clark Gable for a part in Little Caesar. "Didn't you see those big ears?" Warner screamed, "not to mention that ugly face of his." Douglas Fairbanks Jr. got the part, but Gable would have the last word. Over the next twenty-nine years and a sixty-six-film career that included the role of Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind and a 1934 Oscar for It Happened One Night, Gable became one of the most celebrated entertainers of his generation, earning him the title "King of Hollywood."
"Gable is the actor most symbolic of the Hollywood that got me interested in the movies," says ...