William Clark Gable

1901 - 1960  (59 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 6 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	William Clark Gable
  Birth	1 Feb 1901	Cadiz, Harrison, Ohio, USA
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	USA
  actor
  Death	16 Nov 1960	Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California, USA
  Person ID	I372874	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2013

  
  

  Father	William Henry Gable,   b. 1870   d. 1948 (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Adeline Hershelman,   b. 1869   d. 1901 (Age 32 years)
  Family ID	F367502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Josephine Dillon,   b. 26 Jan 1884, Colorado, USA d. 10 Nov 1971, Verdugo, California, USA (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	13 Dec 1924
  Divorce	1 Apr 1930
  Family ID	F170244	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2003

  
  

  Family 2	Maria Franklin Printiss Lucas Langham   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	19 Jul 1931
  Divorce	4 Mar 1939
  Family ID	F170245	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2003

  
  

  Family 3	Loretta Young,   b. 6 Jan 1913, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA d. 12 Aug 2000, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California, USA (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1934
  Children	+ 1. Living
  Family ID	F170232	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2003

  
  

  Family 4	Carole Lombard,   b. 6 Oct 1908, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA d. 16 Jan 1942 (Age 33 years)
  Marriage	29 Mar 1939
  Family ID	F147794	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002

  
  

  Family 5	Sylvia Ashley
  Marriage	20 Dec 1949
  Divorce	21 Apr 1952
  Family ID	F170243	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2003

  
  

  Family 6	Kathleen Williams   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	11 Jul 1955
  Children	+ 1. Living
  Family ID	F170240	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2003

  
  

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  Clark Gable Foundation His mother died when he was seven months old. At sixteen he quit high school, went to work in an Akron tire factory, and decided to become an actor after seeing the play "The Bird of Paradise". He toured in stock companies, worked oil fields and sold ties. In 1924 he reached Hollywood with the help of Portland OR theatre manager Josephine Dillon, who coached and (twelve years older) married him. After bit parts he returned to theatre, becoming lifelong friends with Lionel Barrymore. After several failed screen tests (Barrymore and Zanuck) he was signed in 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) and the public loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in Free Soul, A (1931) the same year. His unshaven love-making with braless Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932) made him MGM's most important star. The studio punished him for refusing an assignment; he was farmed out to Columbia where he won an Oscar for It Happened One Night (1934). He returned to substantial roles at MGM, winning nominations for Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939). When his third wife Carole Lombard died in a plane crash returning from a War Bond drive, a grief-stricken Gable joined the Army Air Corps, out of movies for three years. When he returned the studio regarded his salary as excessive and did not renew his contract. He free-lanced, but his films didn't do well at the boxoffice. He announced during filming of Misfits, The (1961) that, for the first time, he was to become a father. Two months later he died of a heart attack. He was laid to rest beside Carole Lombard at Forest Lawn Cemetery.