He was born William Clark Gable
on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio.

He was crowned King of Hollywood, and rightly so,
as his name is synonymous with 1930’s filmdom.
And for decades Gable was considered to be
the number one movie idol in Hollywood.

In 1934 Gable received an Oscar for the film,
"It Happened One Night".
The film was enormously popular.
When Clark Gable took off his shirt,
revealing his bare chest,
undershirt sales plummeted.

He was nominated for another Oscar for his role
as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).

He was the public’s first, and only choice,
for the role of Rhett Butler in the eagerly awaited
film version of Margaret Mitchell’s "Gone With the Wind".
With each subsequent re-release of the film,
Gable gained more fans, and the film earned more at the box office
(the total has been recently estimated at more than $200,000,000).

Clark was offered the drama "The Misfits" starring
opposite Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift,
and directed by John Huston.
As the film’s producer, Frank Taylor expressed it,
"I knew only one actor in the world who could express
the essence of complete masculinity and virility
that we needed for the leading role.
And that was Clark Gable.
At 59 he was still a contemporary image of virility.
His essential maleness was right on the surface."

Four days after completing "The Misfits",
in which he did his own stunts as an aging cowboy,
he suffered a heart attack.
He died ten days later on November 16, 1960.