Clark Gable

Clark Gable was an American actor best known for his role as ‘Rhett Butler’ in the epic historical romance film ‘Gone with the Wind.’ One of the top-rated Hollywood stars of the 1930s and 1940s, he was often referred to as ‘The King of Hollywood’ or simply ‘The King.’ He starred as the leading man in more than 60 motion pictures in a career spanning over three decades. A reel-life heartthrob of thousands of women, Gable was a notorious womanizer in real-life. The son of an oil-well driller, Gable was a teenager when he decided to become an actor instead of working on farms as his father wished. After struggling for a few years, he finally found work in theater companies and began his career as a stage actor. A theater manager named Josephine Dillon became his mentor and helped him enter Hollywood where he started appearing in silent films. Initially criticized for his looks, he soon emerged as one of the sexiest men in Hollywood. Subsequently, he was cast alongside prominent leading ladies of the time: Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, and Ava Gardner. Gable is considered one of the most consistent box-office performers in history and was named the seventh-greatest male star of classic American cinema by the ‘American Film Institute.’