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posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on February 1, 2019 at 5:59 PM
on his birthday, Clark Gable ((Born: February 1, 1901;Died: November 16, 1960).
He was known for his roles as Peter Warne in the movie "It Happened One Night (1934)", as Fletcher Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)", as Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind (1939)", as Big John McMasters in "Boom Town (1940)", as James Gannon in "Teacher's Pet (1958)" and as Gary Langland in "The Misfits (1961)".
Some other movies he appeared in are "Fighting Blood (1923)", "White Man (1924)", " Forbidden Paradise (1924)", "Déclassé (1925)", "The Merry Widow (1925)", "The Plastic Age (1925)", "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)", "North Str (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 6 (1931)", "Laughing Sinners (1931)", "A Free Soul (1931)", "Night Nurse (1931)", "Sporting Blood (1931)", "Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)", "Hell Divers (1931)", "Possessed (1931)", "Polly of the Circus (1932)", "Strange Interlude (1932)", "Red Dust (1932)", "No Man of Her Own (1932)", "The White Sister (1933)", "Hold Your Man (1933)", "Night Flight (1933)", "Dancing Lady (1933)", "Men in White (1934)", "Manhattan Melodrama (1934)", "Chained (1934)", "Forsaking All Others (1934)", "After Office Hours (1935)", "China Seas (1935)", "Call of the Wild (1935)", "Wife vs. Secretary (1936)", "San Francisco (1936)", "Cain and Mabel (1936)", "Love on the Run (1936)", "Parnell (1937)", "Saratoga (1937)", "Test Pilot (1938)", "Too Hot to Handle (1938)", "Idiot's Delight (1939)", "Strange Cargo (1940)", "Comrade X (1940)", "They Met in Bombay (1941)", "Honky Tonk (1941)", "Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)", "Adventure (1945)", "The Hucksters (1947)", "Homecoming (1948)", "Command Decision (1948)", "Any Number Can Play (1949)", "Key to the City 1950)", "To Please a Lady (1950)", "Across the Wide Missouri (1951)", "Callaway Went Thataway (1951)", "Lone Star (1952)", "Never Let Me Go (1953)", "Mogambo (1953)", "Betrayed (1954)", "Soldier of Fortune (1955)", "The Tall Man (1955)", "The King and Four Queens (1956)", "Band of Angels (1957)", "Run Silent Run Deep (1958)", "But Not for Me (1959)" and "It Started in Naples (1960)".
In 1935 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Peter Warne in the movie "It Happened One Night (1934)".
The American Film Institute (AFI) has ranked him as the seventh greatest male screen legend in American film history.
Reply by genplant29
on February 1, 2019 at 6:27 PM
Big fan here of Mr. Gable's 1930s movies, starting from the beginning of that decade.
Reply by QuitePleasant
on February 12, 2019 at 6:51 PM
Right, Clark is really well cast in many of those 1930s movies no matter who costars because he shares great chemistry with Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Myrna Loy, Vivien Leigh, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, and the rest.
But I think that his best performance comes opposite Jeanette MacDonald in San Francisco. She delivers such a great performance there that she hones his character to develop from his usual street smart tough guy image into a multi-dimensional, humane human being.
Helping to celebrate the anniversary of Clark's birthday month.
Reply by genplant29
on February 12, 2019 at 9:35 PM
Gable was definitely Hollywood's king of the '30s. I especially am a fan of his movies from during the first half of that decade (for example 1931's Possessed [with Joan Crawford] and Night Nurse [with Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Blondell], and 1932's Red Dust [with Jean Harlow and Mary Astor]). By the '40s and onward, he seemed so much older.
Indeed, Gable was excellent in San Francisco. He always added a lot of "presence" to every film he was in.
Reply by QuitePleasant
on February 13, 2019 at 3:47 PM
Right, Joan, Barbara and Jean could stand up to Clark - holding their fists high - and their sass even higher. - Who couldn't enjoy those early 1930s great classics with great scenes like that? - But Clark does make his sacrifices at times for the sake of Greta in Susan Lenox - for another example.
That's why he's probably more versatile than some critics (who don't do their homework) may say.
Reply by genplant29
on February 13, 2019 at 4:34 PM
I agree. There's a lot of both subtlety and completeness to his performances and characterizations. And he always commands the screen, but at the same time somehow never hogs the spotlight. With Harlow in Red Dust is a perfect example, and their whole Fred and Lily bit, playing off of one another smoothly and terrifically. Masterful.