. . . Grace Kelly fled his bedside when he drunkenly plopped his dentures into her nightstand glass of booze, TALL, DARK & HANDSOME informs us. While Conspiracy Theorists play endless permutations of CLUE with the triangle of Jack and Bobby Kennedy plus Marilyn Monroe, HANDSOME reminds us that Marilyn was one of the last people to see Clark alive (and many experts say that Norma Jean caused Clark's fatal heart attack one way or another). Clark never saw his son John, and met his daughter Judy (out of Loretta Young) just once, but willed his jug ears to Judy. When the MGM film studio asked "Mr. Fletcher Christian" to defect to a crew of floggers who were not only brutal, but Lazy Racists to boot, in GONE WITH THE WIND, Clark replied, "Hell, No!" But MGM then asked if he'd do GWTW for a $100,000 bonus check and sign paperwork with Old Scratch, and he changed his answer to "Hell yes!" Satan saw to it that despite what the Black HELP got, there was NO GWTW Oscar for Clark, nor would his GWTW off-screen elopement bride and One True Love ever learn anything about "birthing babies."
Though Joan Crawford told a gossip columnist that Clark Gable was very GIB . . .
16 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers