by Lee Server
|
![It Happened One Night [DVD] [1934]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X3N6KRPYL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
DVD ~ Clark Gable
|
by Lee Server
|
by Lynn Haney
|
by Errol Flynn
|
See buying choices for this item to see if it's one of the millions that are eligible for Amazon Prime.
|
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links(What is this?) |
Product Description
Review
'This bracing and illuminating work draws out the charm of Gable's private character as well as doing justice to his remarkable struggle to reach the top and stay there.' Christopher Sylvester, Mail on Sunday --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
Clark Gable was the archetypal male star of Hollywood's heyday - he gambled, he drank and he womanised on an heroic scale. No wonder that when Spencer Tracy, only half in jest, starting calling him 'The King' the tag caught on. Born in 1901, the son of an unsuccessful Ohio oil prospector, Gable was a country boy who got bitten by the acting bug at the age of seventeen. But he might never have got further than playing bit-parts in small-time touring companies had it not been for the help provided by two older women, who also became the first and second Mrs Gables. The first of these, Josephine Dillon, was a professional drama teacher and she made it her mission to transform Gable into a leading stage actor, but it was the second, a wealthy Houston widow, Ria Langham, who finally contrived to get him, first, to Broadway and then to Hollywood - the rest is history. Quickly taken on to the MGM payroll he was soon playing leading roles opposite some of the studio's major stars such as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Garbo herself. Crawford was the first, but by no means the last, of Gable's leading ladies to continue her role offscreen, their affair would last, on and off, for several years. But it was another star, Carol Lombard, who for the first, and perhaps also last, time won his true and enduring love. Her tragic death in a wartime plane crash shortly after their marriage dealt him a blow from which he never fully recovered - though there would be two more marriages and numerous affairs. Warren Harris's lively and entertaining biography not only reveals hitherto unpublished information about his private life - two illegitimate children, a clandestine fourth marriage - it also describes an incredibly long, varied and successful professional life that included a best actor Oscar (for It Happened One Night), cinematic immortality as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind and The Misfits, the last, sad instalment in Marilyn Monroe's screen career. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Product Description
'This bracing and illuminating work draws out the charm of Gable's private character as well as doing justice to his remarkable struggle to reach the top and stay there.' Christopher Sylvester, Mail on Sunday --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
Clark Gable was the archetypal male star of Hollywood's heyday - he gambled, he drank and he womanised on an heroic scale. No wonder that when Spencer Tracy, only half in jest, starting calling him 'The King' the tag caught on. Born in 1901, the son of an unsuccessful Ohio oil prospector, Gable was a country boy who got bitten by the acting bug at the age of seventeen. But he might never have got further than playing bit-parts in small-time touring companies had it not been for the help provided by two older women, who also became the first and second Mrs Gables. The first of these, Josephine Dillon, was a professional drama teacher and she made it her mission to transform Gable into a leading stage actor, but it was the second, a wealthy Houston widow, Ria Langham, who finally contrived to get him, first, to Broadway and then to Hollywood - the rest is history. Quickly taken on to the MGM payroll he was soon playing leading roles opposite some of the studio's major stars such as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Garbo herself. Crawford was the first, but by no means the last, of Gable's leading ladies to continue her role offscreen, their affair would last, on and off, for several years. But it was another star, Carol Lombard, who for the first, and perhaps also last, time won his true and enduring love. Her tragic death in a wartime plane crash shortly after their marriage dealt him a blow from which he never fully recovered - though there would be two more marriages and numerous affairs. Warren Harris's lively and entertaining biography not only reveals hitherto unpublished information about his private life - two illegitimate children, a clandestine fourth marriage - it also describes an incredibly long, varied and successful professional life that included a best actor Oscar (for It Happened One Night), cinematic immortality as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind and The Misfits, the last, sad instalment in Marilyn Monroe's screen career. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Product Description
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
43% buy the item featured on this page: Clark Gable |
 |
24% buy Clark Gable: Tormented Star£13.49 |
 |
13% buy Cary Grant: A Biography £6.74 |
 |
10% buy My Wicked, Wicked Ways £6.69 |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
 |
Customer Discussions
Beta (What's this?)|
This product's forum
(0 discussions)
Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Active discussions in related forums
|
Related forums
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
"Time Out" Film Guide 2006
"'The best one-stop shop on the market for film fans who credit...
Read more
|
More From Warren G. Harris
Detailing both her personal and professional life, this biography of... Read more |
Treat Someone
With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is). |
||||||||
| |||||
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
You have no recently viewed items or searches.
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session. |
Continue Shopping: Top Sellers
| ||||
Amazon Home | |
| International Sites: United States | Germany | France | Japan | Canada | China | |
| Business Programs: Sell on Amazon | Fulfilment by Amazon | Join Associates | Join Advantage | |
| Customer Service | Help | View Basket | Your Account | |
| About Amazon.co.uk | Careers at Amazon | |
| Conditions of Use & Sale | Privacy Notice © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates |