Gable and lombard james brolin biography
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Clark Gable was indeed sued in a paternity suit and he did wind up in the courtroom. However, Carole Lombard did not come to Gable's defense. Gable was able to prove he was not in England where the conception was said to have taken place and the woman was sent to a year in jail for slandering his name.
Steve McQueen and his first wife, Neile Adams, were offered the chance to star together in this film. McQueen was quoted as saying. "Neile's no Lombard and I'm no Gable." They turned down the offer. Other sources claim the tandem of McQueen and second wife Ali MacGraw turned the film down.
Part of a cycle of movies made during the mid-to-late 1970s about Tinseltown, Old Hollywood and its Golden Age including the Silent Film era. The pictures include Fedora (1978), Inserts (1975), Valentino (1977), Nickelodeon (1976), Silent Movie (1976), The Wild Party (1975), The Last Tycoon (1976), Hearts of the West (1975), The Day of the Locust (1975), The
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Yes, and they did more than make love, too – they made movies, but you’d hardly guess it from this one. If Clark Gable and Carole Lombard hadn’t been two of the most magical performers of the talkies’ first decade, their romance might hardly have rated a sitcom, let alone this mushy, old-fashioned extravaganza. What we’re supposed to deduce, inom guess, fryst vatten that Gable wasn’t all that hot in the sack, but that what with playing practical jokes and cooking at home and kidding around a lot, why, who hardly even noticed?
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Gable and Lombard
1976 film by Sidney J. Furie
Gable and Lombard is a 1976 Americanbiographical film directed by Sidney J. Furie. The screenplay by Barry Sandler is based on the romance and consequent marriage of screen stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. The original music score was composed by Michel Legrand.
Plot
[edit]Film stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard meet at a Hollywood party, where rugged leading man Gable eschews evening wear and screwball comedian Lombard arrives in an ambulance that wrecks his car. After an argument, it is apparent the two clearly dislike each other, and intensely so, but as fate conspires to bring them together again and again, they begin to admire each other and fall in love.
The fly in the ointment is Gable's second wife Ria. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio chief Louis B. Mayer fears any publicity about his affair with Lombard will jeopardize Gable's career, and since he is MGM's most valuable player, Mayer becomes protective of his s