I had to give in. Here he is, the King of Hollywood himself, and strong contender for sexiest man of the 20th century. I hated to give up Larry, but he can always return. Dare I say it? That the men won't understand, but we ladies do? Haha, just kidding Pastorius. Enjoy!
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Pim's Ghost,
Clark Gable--what a hunk! I was very young when Gable was in his last days. You can't imagine my dismay when my mother told me that he had died shortly after I "found" him.
He was so sexy and lovely as well....I love him in Mutiny on the Bounty, not that he's bad in other movies. I still want to see him in the original Mogambo instead of the remake of him in Mogambo. Grace Kelly fell for him during that one. And of course he obliged! That is one problem, today I think Clark would be one of the Moonbats. But maybe not, but he wasn't the brains that Olivier was.
Wow, that had to suck losing an idol like Gable was. And he died before he could see his first son born. Have you heard his son speak? They speak exactly the same, it's almost creepy.
Brains isn't everything. LOL.
Yes, I've heard his son. Eerie.
I'm not sure he'd have been a moonbat. Didn't he volunteer and serve in WWII?
Yes, he actually served rather bravely in the Air Force. In fact, is ethnicity was govered up by the studios at the time, Gable being an Anglicised version of the similar Goebel (I have no font with an umlaut, so forgive the misspelling). His family had made the change to "Gable" much earlier and he was born William Clark Gable, but the fear during the war that he might be a distant relative of Goebbels struck fear into his agent and studio. I believe they claimed him to be Dutch or something similar in ethnicity.
He flew insisting on going into direct battle and not being treated as a star in the army as some others were. There is always speculation as to his motive being somewhat suicidal as well as patriotic (which I'm sure that he was) due to his intense and lifelong grief over the death of his beloved wife, Carole Lombard, in a plane crash after a record-setting War-Bond Drive. Her plane crshed near Vegas and they could barely keep Gable from tearing himself to the site himself.
Gable's Gone With the Wind co-star, Leslie Howard, quit acting to enter the war as well, returning to Britain to join the RAF. He was lost in battle a few years later, his plane crashed.
Boy, did I take film studies seriously, or what? I'll stop now.
A lot of the big stars served in WWII. Somewhere, in some buried file on my computer, I have a great list of those stars. Maybe I should dig it out.
Anyway...Gable "does it" for me.
That'd be cool AOW.
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