A Quote by Carroll Baker

When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set. — © Carroll Baker
When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.
Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'
Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.
How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy...
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"
It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly.
If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.
It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?
Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.
When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.
Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
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