Feb 1, 2014
Thousands, perhaps millions of words have been written about how "natural" Clark Gable is, how he takes everything with his tongue in his cheek, how he has a complete lack of ego after years of such fame and adulation as have befallen no man save, possibly, Valentino. Directors, bit players, his fellow stars, interviewers, extras, the studio personnel, from Louis B. Mayer down to a junior bus boy in the commissary, chants the one refrain about Gable: “He blows himself down! He horses his own stardom. He gives Gable, the star, the belly laugh.” It’s almost impossible to believe it...
- Gladys Hall (1941)