Clark Gable Daily

Eighty-four years ago, today Clark Gable and Carole Lombard attend the Greek War Relief Benefit at Grauman’s Chinese Theater on January 8, 1941.

“I have been in this business a long while. I have directed most of them, oldtimers and newcomers, big stars and bit players. And you can quote me as saying that [Clark] Gable is the man for my money. Not only because he is a very fine actor, but also because he is the most down-to-earth, easy-to-get-along-with actor I have ever known.”

— King Vidor (director)

“The thought comes to me that Clark died much as he had lived–no fuss, no big production, no dramatics. The King is dead–and there is no hailing another, because there will never be another career like his. Or a star like Clark Gable.”

— Louella Parsons (columnist)

“I’ve spent a lot of time learning to be an actor. I’m still learning. I don’t know how you go about learning to be a personality, but I do know how you learn to go about being an actor and I work at it. It’s a profession I’m proud of. It’s my job, not that I’m the best, but I try.”

— Clark Gable

📷 László Willinger (1937)