Clark Gable filmography

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Clark Gable in 1938

Clark Gable was an American actor, who appeared in 67 theatrically released films, from 1931 until 1961, usually as a leading man. He began his career on stage, whilst making appearances as a "film extra" from 1924 until 1930. He also featured as himself in 17 "short subject" films and narrated for the World War II propaganda film, Combat America, produced by the United States Army Air Forces.

During the period 1924–1930, Gable established himself as a stage actor. Also during this period, Gable supplemented his income by working as an "extra" in motion pictures. Below is a listing of the films that Gable is known or believed to have appeared in as an "extra".

Clark Gable appeared in a total of 67 theatrically released feature films from 1931 and 1961 (excluding "extra's", short subjects, and documentaries). These films are listed below with the names of the characters Gable played, his leading ladies, directors, and co-stars. Except where noted, all of Gable's films were produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Film

Gable with Zita Johann in 1928

Roles as an extra

Year Title Notes Ref.
1924 White Man Film debut, considered a lost film [1]
1924 Forbidden Paradise
1925 The Pacemakers
1925 Declassée
1925 The Merry Kiddo
1925 What Price Gloria?
1925 The Merry Widow
1925 The Plastic Age
1925 North Star
1925 Ben-Hur
1926 The Johnstown Flood
1926 One Minute to Play
1930 Du Barry, Woman of Passion

Starring roles

Gable on the poster for Call of the Wild (1935)
Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Gable on the poster for Gone with the Wind (1939)
Gable and Grace Kelly in Mogambo (1953)
Gable and Monroe in The Misfits
Year Title Role Leading Lady Notes Ref.
1931 The Painted Desert Rance Brett Helen Twelvetrees Pathé Exchange production
1931 The Easiest Way Nick Feliki, Laundryman Anita Page
1931 Dance, Fools, Dance Jake Luva Joan Crawford The first of eight films Gable did with Crawford
1931 The Finger Points Louis J. Blanco Fay Wray
1931 The Secret Six Carl Luckner Jean Harlow The first of six films Gable made with Harlow
1931 Laughing Sinners Carl Loomis Joan Crawford
1931 A Free Soul Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant Norma Shearer With Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore.[2]
1931 Night Nurse Nick, the Chauffeur Barbara Stanwyck A Warner Bros. Production
1931 Sporting Blood Warren "Rid" Riddell Madge Evans Gable's first starring role.
1931 Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) Rodney Spencer Greta Garbo
1931 Possessed Mark Whitney Joan Crawford
1931 Hell Divers C.P.O. Steve Nelson Dorothy Jordan
1932 Polly of the Circus Reverend John Hartley Marion Davies
1932 Red Dust[3] Dennis Carson Jean Harlow
Mary Astor
1932 Strange Interlude Dr. Ned Darrell Norma Shearer This is the first film where Gable sports a moustache.
1932 No Man of Her Own Jerry "Babe" Stewart Carole Lombard A Paramount Picture. Gable's only film with Lombard, whom he later married.
1933 The White Sister Giovanni Severi Helen Hayes
1933 Hold Your Man Eddie Hall Jean Harlow
1933 Night Flight[1] Jules Fabian Helen Hayes
1933 Dancing Lady Patch Gallagher Joan Crawford With Franchot Tone, Robert Benchley, Fred Astaire,[4] Nelson Eddy, and the Three Stooges.
1934 It Happened One Night[5][6] Peter Warne Claudette Colbert A Columbia Picture. Generally regarded as one of the all-time great romantic comedies. Gable and Colbert won Academy Awards for their performances.
1934 Men in White Dr. George Ferguson Myrna Loy
Elizabeth Allan
1934 Manhattan Melodrama[7] Edward J. "Blackie" Gallagher Myrna Loy
1934 Chained[2] Michael "Mike" Bradley Joan Crawford
1934 Forsaking All Others Jeffrey "Jeff" Williams Joan Crawford
1935 After Office Hours James "Jim" Branch Constance Bennett
1935 The Call of the Wild Jack Thornton Loretta Young[8]
1935 China Seas Captain Alan Gaskell Jean Harlow
Rosalind Russell
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty[9][10] Fletcher Christian He received an Academy Award nomination for his performance.
1936 Wife vs. Secretary Van Stanhope Jean Harlow With May Robson, James Stewart.
Myrna Loy
1936 San Francisco [11] Blackie Norton Jeanette MacDonald With Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Shirley Ross. Another of Gable's biggest hits.
1936 Cain and Mabel Larry Cain Marion Davies A Cosmopolitan Production released by Warner Bros.
1936 Love on the Run Michael "Mike" Anthony Joan Crawford
1937 Parnell Charles Stewart Parnell Myrna Loy With Edna May Oliver. Generally regarded as Gable's worst film.[12]
1937 Saratoga Duke Bradley Jean Harlow[13] Gable's last film with Harlow.
1938 Test Pilot [14] Jim Lane Myrna Loy
1938 Too Hot to Handle Christopher "Chris" Hunter Myrna Loy Gable's last film with Loy.
1939 Idiot's Delight Harry Van Norma Shearer Gable performs Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz".
1939 Gone with the Wind[15][16] Rhett Butler Vivien Leigh A Selznick-International / MGM Production. Filmed in Technicolor. With Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel. Based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell. One of the best-loved movies of all time. Gable received an Academy Award nomination for what is generally regarded as his most famous performance. [17]
Olivia de Havilland
1940 Strange Cargo André Verne Joan Crawford Gable's last film with Crawford.
1940 Boom Town Big John McMasters Claudette Colbert
Hedy Lamarr
1940 Comrade X McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson Hedy Lamarr
1941 They Met in Bombay Gerald Meldrick Rosalind Russell
1941 Honky Tonk "Candy" Johnson Lana Turner Gable's first film with Turner.
Claire Trevor
1942 Somewhere I'll Find You Jonathan "Jonny" Davis Lana Turner Gable's last film before enlisting in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
1945 Adventure Harry Patterson Greer Garson Gable's first post-World War II film, and the one with the now classic tag line, "Gable's back, and Garson's Got Him!".
1947 The Hucksters Victor Albee Norman Deborah Kerr
Ava Gardner
1948 Homecoming Col. Ulysses Delby "Lee" Johnson Lana Turner
Anne Baxter
1948 Command Decision Brig. Gen. K.C. 'Casey' Dennis _
1949 Any Number Can Play Charley Enley Kyng Alexis Smith
1950 Key to the City Steve Fisk Loretta Young With Frank Morgan,[18] James Gleason, Marilyn Maxwell, and Raymond Burr.
1950 To Please a Lady Mike Brannan Barbara Stanwyck
1951 Across the Wide Missouri Flint Mitchell María Elena Marqués
1952 Lone Star Devereaux Burke Ava Gardner
1953 Never Let Me Go[3] Philip Sutherland Gene Tierney
1953 Mogambo[19][20] Victor Marswell Ava Gardner Filmed in Technicolor on location in Africa. With Donald Sinden.
Grace Kelly
1954 Betrayed Col. Pieter Deventer Lana Turner Gable's last film under his MGM contract.
1955 Soldier of Fortune Hank Lee Susan Hayward A 20th Century-Fox Production, Gable's first wide-screen film.
1955 The Tall Men Colonel Ben Allison Jane Russell A 20th Century-Fox Production. With Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell. Filmed in Cinemascope and Deluxe color.
1956 The King and Four Queens Dan Kehoe Eleanor Parker A Russ-Feild-Gabco Production, released through United Artists. With Jo Van Fleet, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols. Filmed in Cinemascope and Deluxe color. Gable's only attempt at producing one of his films.
1957 Band of Angels Hamish Bond Yvonne de Carlo A Warner Bros. Production. Filmed in WarnerColor.
1958 Run Silent, Run Deep Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson Mary LaRoche A Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Production, released through United Artists. With Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Don Rickles.
1958 Teacher's Pet James Gannon / James Gallagher Doris Day A Paramount Production.
Mamie Van Doren
1959 But Not for Me Russell "Russ" Ward Carroll Baker A Paramount Production. With Lee J. Cobb. Filmed in VistaVision.
Lilli Palmer
1960 It Started in Naples Michael Hamilton Sophia Loren
1961 The Misfits Gaylord "Gay" Langdon Marilyn Monroe Posthumous release, final film role

Short films

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1931 The Christmas Party Himself
1931 Jackie Cooper's Birthday Party
1932 Screen Snapshots
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. 9
1935 Hollywood Hobbies
1935 Starlit Days at the Lido
1937 Hollywood Party
1937 The Candid Camera Story MGM Pictures 1937 Convention
1938 Hollywood Goes to Town
1939 Screen Snapshots: Stars on Horseback
1939 Hollywood Hobbies
1940 Northward, Ho![21]
1941 You Can't Fool a Camera
1942 Show Business at War Himself
1942 Wings Up
1943 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood in Uniform
1950 Screen Actors

References

Notes
  1. ^ "Alice Joyce". Stanford.edu. Stanford University. Retrieved June 4, 2020. Cast: Kenneth Harlan, Alice Joyce, Walter Long, Clark Gable, Stanton Heck.
  2. ^ Barrymore won an Academy Award for his performance.
  3. ^ Remade as Mogambo (1953) with Gable again in the lead.
  4. ^ Astaire's film debut.
  5. ^ Best Picture Academy Award winner for 1934.
  6. ^ Remade as You Can't Run Away From It (1956) with Jack Lemmon in the Gable role.
  7. ^ Reputedly the film that gangster John Dillinger saw just before being gunned down.
  8. ^ Young and Gable had an affair during the making of this film, resulting in Young bearing Gable's child.
  9. ^ Best Picture Academy Award winner for 1935.
  10. ^ Other versions of the Bounty mutiny include In the Wake of the Bounty (1933), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), and The Bounty (1984) with, respectively, Errol Flynn, Marlon Brando, and Mel Gibson in the Gable role.
  11. ^ Lost the 1936 Best Picture Academy Award to The Great Ziegfeld and Tracy was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance.
  12. ^ "This performance was one of the real disasters of his career, prompting many indignant letters from admirers." – Gabe Essoe. The Films of Clark Gable. Secaucus, New Jersey. Citadel Press, 1970.
  13. ^ Harlow died during production of this film. The film was completed using her stand-in Mary Dees.
  14. ^ Lost the 1938 Best Picture Academy Award to You Can't Take It With You
  15. ^ Best Picture Academy Award winner for 1939.
  16. ^ A made-for-TV sequel entitled Scarlett (1994) starred Timothy Dalton in the Gable role.
  17. ^ Ebert, Roger (June 21, 1998). "Gone With the Wind". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  18. ^ This was Morgan's last film. He died before the film was released.
  19. ^ Previously filmed as Red Dust (1932), also with Gable in the lead.
  20. ^ "Magambo" is the Swahili word for "Passion".
  21. ^ A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Northwest Passage (1940) starring Spencer Tracy.
Bibliography

External links

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