Birth of Clark Gable

Clark Gable was born on 1 February 1901 in Cadiz. An American actor, Gable was known as the King of Hollywood because of his popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night, and was nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty and Gone with the Wind, in which he played Rhett Butler. Those films established the image of a charming, rugged leading man with a mustache. He served in the Army Air Forces during the Second World War, flying combat missions as a gunner. His last film was The Misfits, with Marilyn Monroe, and he died of a heart attack soon after filming ended.

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