Dear Mr. Gable

From April 1936: Hollywood says it’s romance, this keeping-company-of an-evening of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, screen stars. Yes, or no, the two are keeping company, and though seldom seen in public, the photographers found them at midget auto races in Hollywood.

From April 1941: If Carole Lombard calls you on the phone and tells you that she and Clark Gable would like to have you come up to their San Fernando ranch for dinner, by all means don’t get yourself all gussied up. When the Gables are at home, informality is the law. Clark likes to loaf around in gray slacks without any semblance of a press. Carole, while always smartly dressed, still gets a big kick out of being garbed like a rancher’s wife. Don’t tell Clark he’s a great actor. He’ll think you’re kidding him. Do suggest seeing his newest car. He’s like a little boy about automobiles and…

From April 1942: Clark Gable, for the first time in his life, begging his studio for more and more work to lose his memories in while his friends stand on the sideline proud of the “Moose” for not flying to pieces as they feared.

From May 1940: The first wedding present received by newlyweds Clark Gable and Carole Lombard was a 10-foot camellia bush from from Clark’s make-up man, Stanley Campbell.

From February 1937: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are quite a pair. The colony never knows what they are going to do next. Best thing about it, neither do they. Clark now has a new station wagon–and is conveying the fair Lombard about. Saturday night when it drew up at the entrance of the Coconut Grove, the doorman hastened out to inform them that all deliveries were made at the back entrance–but before he could do so, out stepped Gable in white tie, tails and top hat, with Lombard in chiffon and ermine. The astonished attendant recovered his composure and directed the attendant to park it along with the limousines…

From April 1936: Say what they will, there appears to be more to the Clark Gable-Carole Lombard romance than they want known. They are together all of the time and it commences to look as though Carole has given up on Robert Riskin, the writer.

From March 1947: Clark Gable is planning to take a three-month flying trip around the world when he finishes his next picture. The actor will start “Angel’s Flight” six weeks after he finishes “The Hucksters,” then he’ll take most of the summer for an air jaunt to distant places. His plan indicates what a lonesome guy Clark has been in recent years since the death of Carole Lombard. ___ Clark never did make a film called “Angel’s Flight”–I have seen that mentioned more than once. Also, he was too traumatized to fly for years after Carole’s death (not including his time in the Army Air Corps). He didn’t take a…