Full name: Clark Gable: A Biography

Author: Warren G. Harris Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780307237149 0307237141

Clark Gable arrived in Hollywood after a rough-and-tumble youth, and his breezy, big-boned, everyman persona quickly made him the town's king. He was a gambler among gamblers, a heavy drinker in the days when everyone drank seemingly all the time, and a lover to legions of the most attractive women in the most glamorous business in the world, including the great love of his life, Carole Lombard. In this well-researched and revealing biography, Warren G. Harris gives an exceptionally acute portrait of one of the most memorable actors in the history of motion pictures--whose intimates included such legends as Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, Loretta Young, David O. Selznick, Jean Harlow, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, and Grace Kelly--as well as a vivid sense of the glamour and excess of mid-century Hollywood. Similar books: Jean Arthur by John Oller Vivien by Alexander Walker Clara Bow by David Stenn Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd Montgomery Clift by Patricia Bosworth Vamp by Eve Golden Jimmy Stewart by Marc Eliot Zanuck by Leonard Mosley Natasha by Suzanne Finstad How to Be a Movie Star by William J. Mann Joan Crawford by Bob Thomas Dark Victory by Ed Sikov James Dean by David Dalton John Wayne by Randy Roberts Natalie Wood by Gavin Lambert The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho