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?'
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.
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.
Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable.
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
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 epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.
When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.
If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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.
Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"