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Clark Gable was an American actor. He was born in 1901 at Cadiz, Ohio and died in 1960. The son of an oil field worker. Gable left school at 14 and held a number of jobs, including tyre factory worker and lumberjack, but his first love was acting. Friend Lionel Barrymore arranged a screen test for Clark Gable at MGM, which he failed. However, after Clark Gable made an impressive film debut in The Painted Desert, the studio changed its mind and signed him to a contract. A series of successful films followed; in fact, he made eight movies in 1931 alone, but it was in 1934, when on loan to Columbia, that he scored a great triumph in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, for which he received the Oscar as best actor.
Clark Gable separated from his second wife, socialite Rhea Langham, in 1935 and married actress Carole Lombard in 1939, while he was in the midst of playing Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. In 1942, Carole Lombard was killed in a plane crash, and shortly thereafter Clark Gable joined the US Army Air Force and flew several bombing missions over Germany during the Second World War. After the war, Clark Gable returned to Hollywood and made more films. Finally, in the 1950s, age caught up with Clark Gable and his popularity began to wane.
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John Clark Gable is an actor. He was born in 1960.
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Run Silent, Run Deep is a Second World War drama starring Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable and Jack Warden in a story about an American sailor upset at being passed over for command of a submarine by a colleague who had lost his last vessel to enemy action. Run Silent, Run Deep was directed by Robert Wise in 1958.
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China Seas is a romantic adventure starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in a story about a cargo boat skipper who is forced to deal with marauding pirates and romantic complications. China Seas was directed by Tay Garnett in 1935.
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Gone with the Wind is a romantic drama starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland in a tale about Rhett Butler and Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara getting passionately involved during the American Civil War. Gone with the Wind was directed by Victor Fleming in 1939.
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It Happened One Night is a comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in a story about a journalist who meets an heiress on the run from her father. It Happened One Night was directed by Frank Capra in 1934.
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Mutiny On The Bounty is a seafaring adventure starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable in the story of tyrannical Captain Bligh and his ship The Bounty, and how on a voyage from Tahiti to England in 1787 the disaffected master's mate, Fletcher Christian, leads the crew in mutiny. Mutiny On The Bounty was directed by Frank Lloyd in 1936.
Mutiny On The Bounty is a seafaring adventure starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris in the story of tyrannical Captain Bligh and his ship The Bounty, and how on a voyage from Tahiti to England in 1787 the disaffected master's mate, Fletcher Christian, leads the crew in mutiny. Mutiny On The Bounty was directed by Lewis Milestone in 1962.
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Run Silent, Run Deep is a Second World War drama starring Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable and Jack Warden in a story about an American sailor upset at being passed over for command of a submarine by a colleague who had lost his last vessel to enemy action. Run Silent, Run Deep was directed by Robert Wise in 1958.
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Strange Cargo is a drama starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in a story about a group of inmates on Devil's Island planning an escape. It was directed by Frank Borzage in 1940.
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Susan Lennox: Her Fall and Rise is a romantic melodrama starring Clark Gable and Greta Garbo in the story of a farmer's illegitimate daughter who runs away rather than go through with an arranged marriage.
Susan Lennox: Her Fall and Rise was directed by Robert Z Leonard in 1931.
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