CLARK CABLE BIOGRAPHY
CLARK CABLE BIOGRAPHY When Clark Gable dropped out of high school at 16 and went to work at a tire factory in Akron,Ohio, he figured he was probably just going to follow in his father’s path of long hours of manual labor. His dad was an oil driller and farmer, and his mother had died during his infancy. One evening after a long shift at the factory, Gable saw a play called The Bird of Paradise and enjoyed it so much that he decided to switch paths in life to become an actor. He tried to work his way in by taking an unpaid job with a theater company, but his dream was temporarily derailed when his stepmother died in 1919 and his acting ambitions were put on hold as he went to help his father in the oilfields of Oklahoma. After three years there, he bid his father adieu and joined a traveling theater company, which quickly went bankrupt, leaving Gable stranded in Montana. He hitchhiked to Oregon and joined another company, where he met Josephine Dillon, the theater manager. D...