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William Clark Gable (born February 1, 1901; died
November 16, 1960) was an United States|American
film actor, and the biggest box-office star of the
early sound film era. He was born in Cadiz, Ohio.
When he was six months old, his sickly Catholic
mother, Adeline Hershelman, had him baptized Roman
Catholic. She died three months later and he was
not raised Catholic by his Protestant father's
family. At the age of 16 he left high school and
started to work in a factory. After seeing a play
which impressed him, he made the decision to
become an actor. He started to tour with several
second class theater companies, and worked also as
a salesman and in the industry. 

In 1924 he went to Hollywood with the financial
aid of theater manager Josephine Dillon, who was
more than 10 years older than he was and became
both his manager and his first wife. He acted in
small roles and returned to the theater, until in
1930 he finally signed a contract with MGM.
Gable's first sound picture, The Painted Desert,
made him an overnight star when it was released in
January 1931. In the following years he acted in
several pictures which soon made him become a
megastar, earning the title of "King of
Hollywood".

Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his
1934 performance in the film It Happened One
Night. He is, however, best-known for his
performance as Rhett Butler in the 1939 classic
Gone With the Wind#The Film|Gone With the Wind,
which earned him an Academy Award nomination for
Best Actor. A few years before, he had also earned
an Academy Award nomination for his role as
Fletcher Christian in 1935's Mutiny on the Bounty
(fiction)#The 1935 Version|Mutiny on the Bounty.
In addition, Gable was one of the few actors to
appear in three films that have won an Academy
Award for Best Picture.

Gable's marriage in 1939 to his third wife,
actress Carole Lombard, was reportedly the
happiest episode in his personal life, but it
ended with her death in a plane crash in 1942. He
was deeply  grieved and joined the
United_States_Army_Air_Force|U.S. Army Air Force.
His first movie after returning from service in
WWII was the 1945 production of Adventure. It was
not really successful, and MGM did not renew his
contract in view of his high salary. During the
next ten years, he made films which did not match
the quality of his earlier roles.

His second wife had been Texas socialite Rhea
Langham Davis, and his fourth was actress Sylvia
Ashley|Sylvia, Lady Sheffield, a British divorcÊe
who also was the widow of Douglas Fairbanks
(1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks. His fifth wife,
married after an on-again, off-again affair
spanning 13 years, was Kathleen Williams Capps de
Alzaga Spreckels, a thrice-married former fashion
model and stock actress from the town of North
East, Pennsylvania. She was the mother of Gable's
posthumous son and only legitimate child, John
Clark Gable, born in 1961; she also had two
children from her third marriage, Joan and Adolph
Spreckels 3rd.

Gable also had an illegitimate daughter, Judy
Lewis, from an affair with actress Loretta Young.

Gable's last film was The Misfits (movie)|The
Misfits, which also featured Marilyn Monroe in her
last screen performance. Gable died in 1960 of a
massive myocardial infarction|heart attack in Los
Angeles, California|Los Angeles, at the age of 59.
He was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Cemetery in Glendale, California, beside his
beloved wife Carole Lombard.

==Filmography==

* White Man (1924)
* Forbidden Paradise (1924)
* The Pacemakers (1925) (short subject)
* Declassee (1925)
* The Merry Kiddo (1925) (short subject)
* What Price Gloria? (1925) (short subject)
* The Merry Widow (1925)
* The Plastic Age (1925)
* North Star (1925)
* The Johnstown Flood (1926)
* One Minute to Play (1926)
* The Painted Desert (1931)
* The Easiest Way (1931)
* Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
* The Finger Points (1931)
* The Secret Six (1931)
* Laughing Sinners (1931)
* A Free Soul (1931)
* Night Nurse (1931)
* Sporting Blood (1931)
* Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
* Possessed (movie)|Possessed (1931)
* Hell Divers (1931)
* The Christmas Party (1931) (short subject)
* Jackie Cooper's Birthday Party (1931) (short
subject)
* Polly of the Circus (1932)
* Screen Snapshots (1932) (short subject)
* Red Dust (1932)
* No Man of Her Own (1932)
* Strange Interlude (1932)
* The White Sister (1933)
* Hollywood on Parade No. 9 (1933) (short subject)
* Hold Your Man (1933)
* Night Flight (1933)
* Dancing Lady (1933)
* It Happened One Night (1934)
* Men in White (1934)
* Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
* Chained (1934)
* Forsaking All Others (1934)
* After Office Hours (1935)
* Hollywood Hobbies (1935) (short subject)
* China Seas (1935)
* The Call of the Wild (1935)
* Starlit Days at the Lido (1935) (short subject)
* Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
* Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
* San Francisco (1936)
* Cain and Mabel (1936)
* Love on the Run (1936)
* Hollywood Party (1937) (short subject)
* The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention
(1937) (short subject)
* Parnell (1937)
* Saratoga (1937)
* Test Pilot (1938)
* Hollywood Goes to Town (1938) (short subject)
* Too Hot to Handle (1938)
* Screen Snapshots: Stars on Horseback (1939)
(short subject)
* Idiot's Delight (1939)
* Hollywood Hobbies (1939) (short subject)
* Gone with the Wind (1939)
* Northward, Ho! (1940) (short subject)
* Strange Cargo (1940)
* Boom Town (film)|Boom Town (1940)
* Comrade X (1940)
* You Can't Fool a Camera (1941) (short subject)
* They Met in Bombay (1941)
* Honky Tonk (1941)
* Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
* Combat America (1943) (documentary)
* Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
* Wings Up (1943) (short subject)
* Screen Snapshots: Hollywood in Uniform (1943)
(short subject)
* Adventure (1945)
* The Hucksters (1947)
* Homecoming (1948)
* Command Decision (1948)
* Any Number Can Play (1949)
* Key to the City (1950)
* Screen Actors (1950) (short subject)
* To Please a Lady (1950)
* Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
* Callaway Went Thataway (1951) (cameo)
* Lone Star (1952)
* Never Let Me Go (1953)
* Mogambo (1953)
* Betrayed (1954)
* Soldier of Fortune (1955)
* The Tall Men (1955)
* The King and Four Queens (1956)
* Band of Angels (1957)
* Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
* Teacher's Pet (1958)
* But Not for Me (1959)
* It Started in Naples (1960)
* The Misfits (movie)|The Misfits (1961)

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0000022|name=Clark Gable
*http://www.geocities.com/cactus_st/ at A Tribute
to Clark Gable
*http://www.thegoldenyears.org/gable.html Classic
Movies (1939 - 1969): Clark Gable