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Clark Gable Was ‘Lucky and He Knew It’: All About the Women Who Made Him a Hollywood Legend
Clark Gable was 'lucky' and he 'knew it.' Closer takes a look inside the Hollywood legend's career and the women who helped him achieve success along the way.
At one point, MGM boss Louis B. Mayer threatened to fire Clark — the lesser of the two actors — if his affair with Joan didn’t stop. Getty Images Clark might have become just another actor, eventually forgotten by history, if not for his marriage to Carole Lombard and his role as Rhett Butler in 1939’s Gone With the Wind. Though Clark didn’t want to make a “women’s picture” and protested a scene where Rhett sheds tears over Scarlett’s miscarriage, his role in the movie opposite Vivien Leigh would cement his place in film history.
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