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Article: Many films, more women Alan Stanbrook enjoys this Life of Clark Gable, the star who summed up what Hollywood used to be
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- June 2, 2002
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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.
On screen Gable looked natural, but it took a lot to get him that
way. Until tutored, his voice was squeaky; until extracted, his teeth
were rotten stumps; he never did get ...