Clark Gable: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As	William Clark Gable
Born	February 1, 1901 • Ohio
Died	November 16, 1960 (aged 59) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors	Academy Award (1935) • Academy Award (1935): Actor in a Leading Role
Notable Family Members	spouse Carole Lombard
Married To	Kay Williams (married 1955) • Sylvia Ashley (1949–1952) • Carole Lombard (1939–1942 [her death]) • Josephine Dillon (1924–1930) • Maria Franklin Gable (1931–1939)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)	"A Free Soul" (1931) • "Wife vs. Secretary" (1936) • "Sporting Blood" (1931) • "Lone Star" (1952) • "Forsaking All Others" (1934) • "Mogambo" (1953) • "Cain and Mabel" (1936) • "Night Nurse" (1931) • "Saratoga" (1937) • "Test Pilot" (1938) • "Red Dust" (1932) • "Night Flight" (1933) • "Dancing Lady" (1933) • "The Painted Desert" (1931) • "The King and Four Queens" (1956) • "Hell Divers" (1931) • "Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)" (1931) • "Across the Wide Missouri" (1951) • "Boom Town" (1940) • "Adventure" (1945) • "Idiot's Delight" (1939) • "Teacher's Pet" (1958) • "North Star" (1925) • "The Misfits" (1961) • "San Francisco" (1936) • "Strange Cargo" (1940) • "Betrayed" (1954) • "Command Decision" (1948) • "Never Let Me Go" (1953) • "The Tall Men" (1955) • "Too Hot to Handle" (1938) • "Honky Tonk" (1941) • "The Easiest Way" (1931) • "Laughing Sinners" (1931) • "Soldier of Fortune" (1955) • "Dance, Fools, Dance" (1931) • "China Seas" (1935) • "Polly of the Circus" (1932) • "Parnell" (1937) • "Strange Interlude" (1932) • "Gone with the Wind" (1939) • "To Please a Lady" (1950) • "Run Silent Run Deep" (1958) • "Somewhere I'll Find You" (1942) • "After Office Hours" (1935) • "It Started in Naples" (1960) • "Possessed" (1931) • "Call of the Wild" (1935) • "White Man" (1924) • "The Finger Points" (1931) • "The Hucksters" (1947) • "Comrade X" (1940) • "No Man of Her Own" (1932) • "The White Sister" (1933) • "It Happened One Night" (1934) • "The Secret 6" (1931) • "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) • "Men in White" (1934) • "But Not for Me" (1959) • "Any Number Can Play" (1949) • "Love on the Run" (1936) • "Homecoming" (1948) • "They Met in Bombay" (1941) • "Hold Your Man" (1933) • "Chained" (1934) • "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934) • "Key to the City" (1950) • "Band of Angels" (1957)