Article: Many films, more women Alan Stanbrook enjoys this Life of Clark Gable, the star who summed up what Hollywood used to be

Clark Gable:

A Biography

by Warren G. Harris

Aurum, pounds 18.99, 408 pp

pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

SPENCER TRACY called him "king" and the tag stuck. For 30 years, Clark Gable was the undisputed king of Hollywood, forever associated with the role of Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind. Every man wanted to be like him, every woman to be had by him. When he stripped off his shirt for his Oscar-winning part in It Happened One Night (1934), revealing no undershirt, sales of vests plummeted by 75 per cent.

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