Publisher's Synopsis
He was known as "The King of Hollywood" and is best remembered for his role as Rhett Butler in the epic Civil War historical romance drama, Gone with the Wind (1939). He was the iconic and legendary Clark Gable. Between 1931 and 1960, Gable appeared in a total of 67 theatrically released motion pictures, including the pioneering screwball comedy of all time, It Happened One Night (1934), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. The Clark Gable Movie Poster Book features original one sheet posters from these classic feature length films. (Vintage still photographs or other poster art are substituted in the cases where high quality posters were unavailable.) All of Gable's feature films are represented in the book, including Red Dust (1932), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) for which he was nominated an Academy Award for Best Actor, Manhattan Melodrama (1934), San Francisco (1936), Saratoga (1937) Boom Town (1940, Mogambo (1953) and The Misfits (1961), which marked his and his co-star Marilyn Monroe's last screen appearances. Also included are films with Gable's popular leading ladies of his screen career that included Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer and more.
