The Life and Many Loves of Clark Gable BORN 1901 FEBRUARY 1 - 1960 NOVEMBER 16
The Life and Many Loves of Clark Gable BORN 1901 FEBRUARY 1 - 1960 NOVEMBER 16 GUNSOCK clark-gable-and-the-many-women-in-his-life The Ruthless Toyboy Clark Gable's image, even 50 years after his death, is still that of the handsome romantic, the rogueish charmer, a Rhett Butler sweeping beautiful women off their feet. The reality of Gable's life is somewhat less romantic. He was certainly a womaniser, a serial seducer and philanderer, and he ruthlessly used his attractivenness to women, particularly older women who held powerful positions in Broadway and Hollywood, to make his way to the top. He was a toyboy before the name had been coined. Once established as a star he continued his womanising ways. With Loretta Young he fathered an illegitimate child whom he never acknowledged, and even when married to his soulmate, Carole Lombard he conducted an affair with Lana Turner. The sudden, tragic death of Carole Lombard in an air crash traumatised him and pushed him into the arms ...