Gable's Women - Hardcover

Wayne, Jane Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0133460401 ISBN 13: 9780133460407

Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct, 1987

Synopsis

Surveys Clark Gable's life and discusses his romantic involvements with his leading ladies and other women

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Wayne's biography evokes Gable as a magnetic, virile, outgoing man with many close male friends and many female pursuers. Tracing the actor's life from his birth in 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to his death at age 59, the author (Robert Taylor, etc.t describes the women he attracted: his first wife, drama coach Josephine Diller who helped start him in his movie career; later wives and lovers, who included Joan Crawford, (possibly) Loretta Young, Grace Kelly et al. Gable, according to Wayne, dominated women as he dominated the screen in such classics as It Happened One Night and Gone with the Wind, but Carole Lombard, his third wife, was his equal. When she died in a 1941 plane crash, Gable courted suicide as an Air Force officer during World War II. He succumbed to a heart attack in 1960, after costarring with another legend, Marilyn Monroe, in The Misfits. Photos not seen by PW. First serial to the Star; Nostalgia Book Club and Movie/Entertainment Book Club selections.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0133460401
• ISBN 13: 9780133460407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304