Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind.
Rhett Butler has long been remembered as one of the most dashing and attractive men ever fictitiously created. He is cynical, sarcastic, mocking, contemptuous, rebellious, disrespectful and darkly appealing. He is handsome and conceited, taunting yet surprisingly kind, enormously masculine yet understanding of females, and utterly in love with Scarlett. Essentially, what Mitchell did when she created Rhett (although she based him on her first husband Red) was take all the wickedest dreams of women and sew them together with the more angelic ones, to create what is theoretically the perfect man.
-when Clark was only 9 months old, his mother died, leaving him to the care of his father. Bill Gable soon remarried to Jennie Dunlap.
-Clark was raised in Hopedale, and remained there until he was 16, when he decided to move to Akron, Ohio, and took a job with a railroad company.
-In Akron, Gable saw his first play and was entranced. He would hang around the music hall begging to help out, until they allowed him to take on a job as a call boy.
-Clark's father took him to Oklahoma to work. Clark hated Oklahoma and left after two years, arguing so bitterly with his father before he left that they would not speak again for 10 years.
-After that Clark moved to Oregon, where he married his acting coach, Josephine Dillion, who was much older than him.
-In 1930 he divorced Josephine so that he could marry Ria Langham, who helped him to develop that Gable style that he would be remembered for.
-In 1932, Clark reached full fledged stardom with Red Dust, starring Jean Harlow.
-In 1934 he won an oscar for his performance in It Happened One Night.
-In 1939 he divorced Ria so that he could marry actress Carole Lombard, whom he had fallen hopelessly in love with.
-In 1939, he also starred in Gone With the Wind as Rhett Butler. It would be the role that he would be most remembered for.
-In 1942, Carole Lombard was killed in a plane crash, leaving Clark grief-stricken. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps, as Carole had previously asked him to do.
-In 1949, he married Sylvia Ashley, but they quickly divorced each other.
-In 1955, he married Kay Spreckels, out of friendship more that anything else.
-On November 16, 1960, William Clark Gable died of a heart attack, having just finished making The Misfits, with Marilyn Monroe. He was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery, besides Carole Lombard. On March 3, 1961, John Clark Gable, the son that Clark had always wanted was born.
1934
MEN IN WHITE
1934
AFTER OFFICE HOURS
1935
CALL OF THE WILD
1935
CHINA SEAS
1935
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
1935
CAIN AND MABEL
1936
LOVE ON THE RUN
1936
SAN FRANCISCO
1936
WIFE VS. SECRETARY
1936
PARNELL
1937
SARATOGA
1937
TEST PILOT
1938
TOO HOT TO HANDLE
1938
GONE WITH THE WIND
1939
IDIOT'S DELIGHT
1939
BOOM TOWN
1940
COMRADE X
1940
STRANGE CARGO
1940
HONKY TONK
1941
THEY MET IN BOMBAY
1941
SOMEWHERE I'LL FIND YOU
1942
ADVENTURE
1945
THE HUCKSTERS
1947
COMMAND DECISION
1948
HOMECOMING
1948
ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY
1949
KEY TO THE CITY
1950
TO PLEASE A LADY
1950
ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI
1951
(1924)
WHITE MAN
(1924)
DECLASSEE
(1925)
THE MERRY WIDOW
(1925)
NORTH STAR
(1925)
THE PLASTIC AGE
(1925)
THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD
(1926)
DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE
(1931)
HE EASIEST WAY
(1931)
THE FINGER POINTS
(1931)
A FREE SOUL
(1931)
LAUGHING SINNERS
(1931)
NIGHT NURSE
(1931)
THE PAINTED DESERT
(1931)
POSSESSED
(1931)
THE SECRET SIX
(1931)
SPORTING BLOOD
1931
SUSAN LENOX: HER FALL AND RISE
1931
HELL DIVERS
1932
NO MAN OF HER OWN
1932
POLLY OF THE CIRCUS
1932
RED DUST
1932
STRANGE INTERLUDE
1932
DANCING LADY
1933
HOLD YOUR MAN
1933
NIGHT FLIGHT
1933
THE WHITE SISTER
1933
CHAINED
1934
FORSAKING ALL OTHERS
1934
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
1934
1951
LONE STAR
1952
MOGAMBO
1953
NEVER LET ME GO
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
1961
by Jame Ellen Wayne, et al
The Complete Films of Clark Gable
by Gabe Essoe
Clark Gable
by Ren�e Jordan.
Long Live the King : A Biography of Clark Gable
by Lyn Tornabene.
Gable : a pictorial biography
by Jean Garceau.
Gable and Lombard
by Warren G. Harris.
The Life and Loves of Gable
by Jack. Scagnetti.
Clark Gable : A Hollywood Portrait
by Marie Cahill.