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Article: One line helped to immortalize Clark Gable
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- May 31, 2001
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Rohlehr, Lloyd
Caribbean Today
05-31-2001
One line helped to immortalize Clark Gable
In the West Indies of a time now gone, "glamour boy" was a term in
colloquial use. If ever it had been applied to the dashing film star Clark
Gable, it would have been apt.
Other men with great masculine appeal have moved across and off history's
stage, but few of them are remembered in the way Gable is remembered.
He would have been 100 years old this year -- Feb. 1. A pause to recall his
life is a nostalgic journey.
Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire,
and Henry Fonda, to call some names, were around when he was; yet he stood
out.
When Judy Garland sang her famous Dear Mr. Gable ...