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There really was a Hollywood, a place of fashionable men and
gorgeous women and the all-powerful studio system that allowed them
to defy the conventions that governed the rest of the country.
Clark Gable arrived there after a rough-and-tumble youth, and his
breezy, big-boned, everyman persona quickly made him the town's
"King." He was a gambler among gamblers, a heavy drinker in the
days when everyone drank seemingly all the time, and a lover to
legions of the most attractive women in the most glamorous business
in the world.
In this well-researched and revealing biography, Warren G. Harris
gives us an exceptionally acute portrait of one of the most
memorable actors in the history of motion pictures, as well as a
sure sense of the milieu and the times of mid-century Hollywood.
More than anything else, one is struck by the romance of the
era--the glamour and the excess, the playfulness and the lust. The
people who were Gable's intimates are legends in their own right:
Loretta Young, Marion Davies, David O. Selznick, Jean Harlow, Judy
Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, Grace Kelly, and the list goes
on and on.
Clark Gable reveals newly uncovered information about Gable's
illegitimate daughter, his relationship with Joan Crawford, and his
great love for Carole Lombard, his third wife.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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