Clark Gable – Page 2 – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

August 21, 2015 / Vickie Lester

James Stewart reads at home

October 3, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.” Vivien Leigh

May 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Dinner at Eight — I wonder what Carlotta would have made of Google Glass?

Kitty: I was reading a book the other day. Carlotta: Reading a book? Kitty: Yes. It’s all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession? Carlotta: Oh, my dear, that’s…

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May 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“You can check the wings and halo at the desk.” Jean Harlow as Vantine in Red Dust

May 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The original Platinum Blonde in black, Jean Harlow

March 31, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Gone fishin’ reposts: they honeymooned in Palm Springs, Gable and Lombard. Isn’t it romantic?

March 30, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Palm Springs: will be sleeping in a bed the size of a tennis court, won’t be having my eyes done

Linda stopped the Fleetwood convertible in front of the house without turning into the driveway. She leaned back and looked at the house and then looked at me. “It’s a new section of the Springs, darling. I rented the house for the season. It’s a bit on the chi-chi side,…

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March 23, 2014 / Vickie Lester

At first, Gable found Lombard to be bawdier than he was willing to handle – No Man of Her Own (1932)

During filming, Gable and Lombard were entirely indifferent to one another, with Lombard in a foul mood due to her recent unpleasant loan-out to United Artists. She spoke of that experience with her usual colorful vocabulary, which Gable was not certain he approved of. No romantic relationship between the stars…

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March 13, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Clark Gable, “His ears are too big and he looks like an ape.”

So said Darryl F. Zanuck after viewing Mr. Gable’s screen test for “Little Caesar”, and the rest is history. What can I say, but film executives have their ups and downs. Film making is a funny, as in odd, endeavor. From the studio system’s inception top spots in the business…

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March 10, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The wisdom of directors

On using cockeyed camera angles: CAROL REED: I used it so much in The Third Man, however, that I remember William Wyler, after seeing the film, made me the gift of a spirit level. “Carol,” he said, “next time you make a picture, just put it on top of the…

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