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Hollywood Goes to War: When Clark Gable Traded the Silver Screen for the Skies

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Hollywood Goes to War: When Clark Gable Traded the Silver Screen for the Skies

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Clark Gable was a Hollywood star who enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II, becoming an aerial gunner on a B-17 bomber and serving in combat missions over Europe. Despite his fame, Gable's military service was marked by bravery and humility, earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. After the war, he returned to making movies, starring in 22 films and cementing his legacy as one of Hollywood's greatest stars.

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Clark Gable was a Hollywood star and among the most famous figures in the world when two events altered his life. One of those events was the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. He sent a telegram to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asking for a role in the war effort. The president replied, Stay where you are. Gable didn't.

Here to tell the story is Roger McGrath. And Roger has appeared on numerous History Channel documentaries and is a regular contributor here on Our American Stories. Here's McGrath. Clark Gable was known as the King of Hollywood. He appeared in more than 60 movies over a span of 37 years.

He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in It Happened One Night. the big hit of 1934. He was nominated for Best Actor two more times. He made the famous Top 10 Money-Making Stars list Sixteen times from nineteen thirty-two through nineteen fifty-five. From 1934 through 1939, he ranked number two four times.

In 1939, he starred as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. The greatest film of the era. During the depths of the Great Depression, MGM paid him $7,500 a week, equivalent to $150,000 a week today. whether or not he was making a movie. His leading ladies.

were a who's who of female stars. Before World War II, they included Gene Harlow, Carol Lumbar, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert. Myrna Loy, Loretta Young, Jeanette MacDonald, Vivian Lee, Rosalind Russell, and Lana Turner. After the war, they included Barbara Stanwick, Deborah Carr, Eva Gardner, Jean Tierney.

Sophia Loren, and Marilyn Monroe. Born William Clark Gable at home in February 191 in Cadiz, Ohio. Gable is German on his father's side and German and Irish on his mother's. His parents come from farm families. but the father becomes a wild cat oil driller.

The mother dotes on her infant son. But she dies when he is only ten months old. Gable is taken to be raised by a maternal uncle and his wife on their farm. They have no children of their own, and love the little Gable boy so much they want to adopt him. Gamel's father refuses to allow it.

thinking he will soon remarry. Two years later, the father does remarry. and takes his now three-year-old son back. The new wife can't have children of her own and devotes herself to the large for his age boy. Young Gable is rambunctious and loves the outdoors, especially when his father takes him hunting and fishing.

Gabriel also spends each summer back on the uncle farm until he's twelve years old. From then on, he has full-time jobs during the summer. usually driving wagons and delivering goods. By the time Clark Gable is 16 years old, he reaches his full height of 6'1. and is a hundred and eighty pounds of muscle, bone, and sinew.

He is his high school baseball team's home run hitter. His towering drives land and cow pastures well beyond the outfield. Gable doesn't return to school for his senior year though. the United States enters the Great War in Europe and manpower shortages begin to appear. Gable gets a job on the production line at the Firestone Tire Plant in Akron.

Akra and tire plants are running around the clock. and the town's population grossed more than 200,000. Gable is in the big city. and life is at a pace he has never experienced. It's an Akron.

The gable is bitten by the acting bug. He attends a play at the Akron Music Hall and is captivated by the theme and the performances. I clapped my hands until my palms were sore, Gable later said. I'd never seen anything as wonderful in my life. which, I guess, had been pretty drab up until then.

Whenever he can, Gable is at the music hall. He volunteers to be a callboy, which entails notifying actors in their dressing rooms when it's their time to go on stage. He watches and makes careful mental notes of everything. his enthusiasm is evident to everyone. when an actor playing a household servant suddenly takes sick, Giebel is given the opportunity to replace him.

said Gable. I had one mind. Your cab is here, madam. I thought I'd die while I was waiting to go on. When I didn't fall on my face, I thought I was an actor.

It was all over then, as far as my future was concerned. I never wanted to be anything else. With the end of the war and the sharp cutback on production, Akron falls on hard times. Many lose their jobs, including Gable. He struggles on with odd jobs for another year before leaving and joining his father.

was wild cat drilling in Oklahoma. His father finds him a job as an apprentice tool dresser. Swinging a sixteen pound sledgehammer to sharpen the cutting edges of drilling bits. After six months of daily 12-hour shifts, His muscles are bulging, and he weighs two hundred and five pounds. even among the rugged oil field workers.

gable stands out. Tired of swinging a sledgehammer, Gable gets a job in an oil refinery, but the work is just as rugged. said Gable. I was part of an eight-man gang that cleaned out the sludge, which was almost like asphalt, from stills and storage tanks. as soon as they were emptied.

the interior temperature and oil fumes were so terrific that only one man would go in at a time with a rope around his waist in case he passed out. working with a pick and shovel. you could only tolerate it for about two minutes.

So you are in and out every 16 minutes throughout the 12-hour shift. I saw lots of men get a little hysterical. They started to laugh and had to be hauled out and sent home. and you're listening to Roger McGrath depict the early life of actor. Clark Gable and what a life.

When we come back, more of the story of Clark Gable. here on Our American Stories. Lee Habib here, the host of Our American Stories. Every day on this show, we're bringing inspiring stories from across this great country. Stories from our big cities and small towns.

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and you'll hear so many beautiful and good and compelling stories by McGrath. And by the way, Greg Hengler, who's also the producer on this piece, studied on McGrath. when he was in college. And McGrath is one of the great history teachers At UCLA.

Now let's return to McGrath and the story of Clark Gable. When Gable turns 21, He comes in a small inheritance. from his mother's side of the family. it's enough money to quit the oil fields and pursue acting. His father explodes when Gable tells him he's leaving.

They almost come to blows. and vow never to see each other again. For two years, Gable's on the road with a traveling tent show playing minor roles. The show gets stranded in Pute, Montana in a terrible blizzard. which forces the cancellation of the rest of its tour.

Another member of the show tells Gable he has relatives in Oregon who might have work for them. The two hop a freight train, and arrive in Oregon half frozen, hungry, and broke. Gable finds a job at a lumber mill. unloading logs from delivery trucks. He eventually earns enough money to make his way to Portland.

In Oregon's big city, It strings wire for a telephone company. is briefly engaged to actress Frances Dorfler. and appears on stage with the Astoria players. Gabo's life changes dramatically. when he meets Josephine Dylan.

a former Broadway actress. who is opening an acting studio in Portland. Within weeks, Gable is not only Dylan's star student, but also living with her. He is twenty three and she is thirty nine.

However, the relationship is not sexual. Dylan is fascinated by the prospect of turning Clark Gable. who she sees as a diamond in the rough. into not just a good actor, but a star. After a year of working with Gable, often to the neglect of her other students.

Dylan decides to relocate to Los Angeles. and establishes an acting studio in Hollywood. Gable arrives in Hollywood no longer an awkward novice, but a fairly competent actor. He also has acquired a degree of refinement and sophistication, to go along with his natural personal charm. To avoid scandal concerning the relationship, Gable and Dylan agree to a marriage of convenience.

For the next several years, Gable appears in minor roles in movies. but in ever greater roles in the theatre. He goes on the road with several different productions. And it's here he hones his acting shops until critics begin to take notice of him. He plays a great variety of characters, from a big city newspaper reporter to an innocent naive sailor.

to a ruthless gangster. even sings and dances. in a musical comedy. After his performance, As the male lead in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Anna Christie. A critic says of Gable, He took the spotlight early in the play and Through the character's ready wit and wisdom, kept the audience in an uproar from the opening scene to the final curtain.

Rave reviews confirmed Gable's progress as an actor. But something else is happening. that portends his future stardom. Dozens of women Are at the stage door waiting for him to leave the theater at each of his appearances. Clark Abel's first significant movie role comes in The Painted Desert, released in 1931.

By the end of 1931, he appears in 10 more films and moves from supporting roles to leading man. 1932 sees Gable as the male lead in four major motion pictures. His leading ladies are the greatest female stars of the day. He's making two thousand a week, something like forty thousand a week today. and the nation is in the depths of the Great Depression.

His star continues to rise through 1933 and 1934. and his salary is doubled, it will double again. His movies are box office and critical successes. Especially it happened one night. which wins five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Gable wins the Oscar for Best Actor. Secretaries find it difficult to keep up with his fan mail. and his hit movies continue. China Seas, Call of the Wild. Mutiny on the bounty.

San Francisco. Test pilot. too hot to handle. Gone with the wind. Red!

Red! You go! Where shall I go? What shall I do? Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Mm-hmm. Women, money, cars, homes are his. Clark Gable. is the king. Of Hollywood.

I can't, I know, I can't. That must be some way to bring him back. In 1939, Gable marries the love of his life, Carol Lumbar. He continues to star in movies, and so too does Lombard. Until the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor throws the United States into World War II.

A patriot, Lombard raises money for the war by going on a bond tour. On a return to Los Angeles, though, The plane she is on crashes into a mountain in Nevada. with the loss of all on board. Devastated, Gable spends weeks swilling whiskey. but sobers up and completes a movie for MGM.

Against the strong objections of the studio bosses, the forty one year old King of Hollywood, Now enlists as a private. in the Army Air Corps. I don't want to sell bonds, declares Gable. I don't want to make speeches, and I don't want to entertain. I just want to be sent where the going is tough.

Because of his age, commanding presence, and experience, Gable is accepted for Officers' Candidate School. is ordered to report to a camp at Miami, Florida. for a 13-week officers course. He travels by train. And wherever the train stops, women by the hundreds are there waiting.

When Gable asked to change trains in New Orleans, A crowd of 5,000 female fans makes it impossible for him to catch his connecting train. He arrives in Miami a day late. For all his heavy smoking and drinking, Gables in excellent condition. His build and prowess impressed the other candidates. but most of them keep their distance.

thinking gable must have an awfully high opinion of himself. Sensing the tension, Gable removes its false teeth. and waves them at the other men. Look at the King of Hollywood, he says. Sure looks like the Jack now, doesn't he?

Everyone laughs, and Gable is suddenly just one of the guys. Physically, Gable sails through CS. outperforming men half his age. academically. A high school dropout struggles.

Until he decides to treat classroom material. Like a movie script. while other candidates are sleeping at night. He sits in a lighted latrine. And memorizes page after page of subject matter until he can recite the material.

He finishes OCS. In the top one quarter of his class, and, at the request of the other candidates, delivers the graduation address. After commissioning, Gable spends several more months training at gunnery schools. Having spent years hunting and shooting skeep, he excels as a gunner and is promoted to first lieutenant. by the end of January 1943.

There's no question that Gable will be a top aerial gunner. But the War Department and the Army also want them to make training films with footage from actual combat. And you're listening to a heck of a story about the biggest star in the world at the time. And at the age of 41, after suffering Perhaps the greatest loss of his life, the love of his life. Enlists.

I don't want to raise no money for bonds. I want to go where the going is tough. When we come back, more of this remarkable story, a story of sacrifice, a story of love of country. And at 41, the story of Clark Gable continues. Here on Our American Stories.

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And we continue with our American stories and the story of Clark Gable. and his military service in World War II. We've heard about the man, his life. And my goodness, all of the tough work he did prepared him.

well the physical nature of war. The psychological nature of war, well, that's another thing. Let's pick up where we last left off. Here's Roger McGrath. After more training, Gable is deployed With the 351st Bomb Group to Polebrook, England, some eighty miles north of London.

His arrival in April 1943 is first announced by German radio broadcasts. which say he will be welcomed in Germany. When his plane is shot down. Hitler has a large collection of American films. And has stated more than once his favorite Hollywood actor is Clark Gable.

German Ear Minister Hermann Goering. announces that any pilot who shoots down Gable's plane Will receive the equivalent of $5,000, something like $100,000 today. If Gabal survives the shoot-down and is captured, The German pilot will also be promoted and given a paid vacation. Exactly how many combat missions Clark Gable flies is not known because he is not a regular crew member for any particular bomber. But simply climbs aboard whenever he can to shoot aerial footage or serve as a replacement for a wounded aerial gunner.

The logbooks record Gable on five missions. but he probably flies more than twenty. His commanding officer, Colonel William Hatcher says. The damned fool insists on being a rear gunner on every mission. Gables.

First officially recorded combat mission. comes in May 1943. He's aboard a B seventeen. on a bombing raid, targeting factories in German-occupied Belgium. Besides filming, he also serves as a gunner.

Not wanting to diminish his dexterity for camera work, He wears light leather gloves. and suffers frostbite. Two B-17s are shot down and others sustain damage. His second mission takes him to a German airfield in France. But clouds are obscuring the target and the B-17s cannot drop their bombs.

German fighters though. come up through the clouds to attack the American bombers. Several sustain damage, but none are lost. Gable's third mission targets chemical plants in German-occupied Norway. It's the longest fight for the 8th Air Force yet.

Two B-17s suffer damage from flak. His fourth mission is almost his last. The Darget is a synthetic oil plant. in Germany's ruhr valley. in a massive air raid by several bomb groups.

300 planes participate. 25 American bombers are shot down and double that number badly damaged. Many men are killed or wounded. In the midst of the battle. Gable wedges himself.

behind the top turret gunner to film German fighters. as they make passes at the American bomber. which is named Ain't It Gruesome? Bursts of machine gun fire rip into the B-17. and then a 20mm shell comes up through the top turret.

but miraculously doesn't explode. The shell rips through the heel of Gable's boot. and then misses his head by inches. Although a shot full of holes. Ain't that gruesome?

makes it back to base. when reporters see Gable with a mangled boot and ask him how it happened. Gabal says I didn't know it happened. I didn't know anything about it until we had dropped eleven thousand feet and and could get off oxygen and look around. Only then Did I see the hole in the turret?

Gabel's next mission targets a shipping port used by the Germans on the coast of France. The American bombers are jumped by German fighters and suffer extensive damage. When the nose gunner in Gable's B 17 is wounded, Gable takes his place. Doing missions. Gable heads to the MGM offices in London and screens footage that he and other members of his film unit have shot.

He also visits David Niffin. who is now in the British Army and stationed near London, but living in a house off base. I came home one night, said Niven, to find a large American Air Force officer sitting in my chair. On his knee was my son. serving him from my last bottle of whisky, was my wife.

It was a great reunion. He became devoted to my family. always showing up with unheard of goodies, such as concentrated orange juice and nylons. from the bountiful American PX. Back at the 351st Bomb Group.

Gabriel rides a motorcycle around the base and becomes acquainted with everyone from privates to colonels. He writes letters of condolence to families of his fellow airmen who die. and regularly visits patients in the base hospital. Clark Gable was a human with a heart, said a sergeant. when Bob Hope and his troop Came to the base to put on an outdoor show, there were thousands of guys in the audience, with Clark tucked in there somewhere.

Hope stood in the bike, trying his damnedest to get Clark on the stage. Hope kept joking, I know there's a celebrity out there. Where is he? but he couldn't get him to even stand up. The guys laughed, and some sitting near Clark shouted, Here and stirred you to applaud and whistle.

Clark half got up, smiled, and gave half a wave, and then put his head down. The applause and whistling went on. Gee, it must have been for ten minutes. Everybody thought it was great. In October 1943, Gable was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.

He's ordered home. Arriving in November, we had with 50,000 feet of film. He stationed at Halroach Studios in Culver City.

now used by the Army Signal Corps, for the production of training and recruiting films. The studios are nicknamed Fort Roach. Also serving at Fort Roach is Captain Ronald Reagan. Gable works on turning his 50,000 feet of footage into training films. visits military hospitals, and makes appearances at war bond rallies.

By May 1944, he's finished with his film projects and is promoted to major. He now hopes for an assignment to the Pacific theater of the war. When he learns the army will not allow him in combat again. He requests a discharge. and is separated from active duty in mid-June.

Gable doesn't return to making movies. until the war is over in Europe. and nearly over in the Pacific. SAIN is uncomfortable. doing so when men are still dying in combat.

It stars in 22 movies following World War II. Because of his movies, Most people today still know of Clark Gable, the actor. What they don't know is that he left his wife as the king of Hollywood. to play his greatest role. A real life role.

as Captain Clark Gable. an aerial gunner in a B seventeen. facing German fighters in the skies over Europe. And great work by Roger McGrath. And he does great work for us regularly and is one of our most regular contributors.

And by the way, McGrath is a U.S. Marine. And I don't say former because Once a marine, always a marine. and you could tell there was a special connection to the material. Clark Gable's greatest droll of his life, playing Captain Clark Gable.

himself. In war an aerial gunner. The B17s. I mean, imagine that Hermann Göring put a bounty on Clark Gable's head. And I just love that quote from one of his commanders.

The damn fool insists on being a rear gunner on every mission. And that tells you everything you need to know about Clark Cable. When he's in, he's in, all the way. A beautiful story about a great star, the star behind the star, the real man. Clark Gable's story His World War II story here.

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