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Old Hollywood stars Joan Crawford And Clark Gable Were twinned in eight films in the 1930s and 40s, thank you - largely - with their hot chemistry on the screen. This chemistry also triggered an off -screen screen, up to A barely hidden case Between the two married stars have almost ended their careers. Although the romance left the public's eyes, after Gable's death, Crawford admitted that the case did not stop simply because the rumors did. In fact, she said it "lasted any longer than anyone who knows it". Read the continuation for more details on life for life between Crawford and Gable and how she helped him to go through the most tragic period of her life.

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Gable was launched for the first time alongside Crawford after asking for his 1931 film Dance, fools, dance . Gable was initially ready to play a smaller role, but the producer Irving Thalberg Rewrite the script to give more gable scenes With Crawford, who was at the time one of MGM's most profitable actresses. Unlike Crawford husband, Hollywood Scion Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Gable came from the humble beginnings and was, like Crawford, undefined and insecure in the middle of Hollywood glamor. It may have contributed to their powerful chemistry on the screen and why MGM gave Gable to replace his original co-star, Johnny Brown Mack , on the next crawford film, Riacent sinners (1931), according to A 1932 issue of Modern screen magazine .

Crawford and Gable played in a third film the same year with Possesses (1931), which completely captured the strong attraction between the two which were at this time A Torre -Torker Affair , according Closer every week .

While Crawford was married in Hollywood Royalty, Gable was engaged at his next second wife, Oil Heiress Maria Langham . As a word of illegal romance, BOSS studio Louis B. Mayer worried about the repercussions of a case Between two married actors, and even sent Crawford and Fairbanks for an prolonged honeymoon (photo above) in an unsuccessful attempt Daily mail .

At the time, MGM included a clause of moral turpitude in its contracts, said Crawford in the book of Roy Newquist in 1980 Conversations with Joan Crawford , and forced them to end things, according to Closer every week . ("I should have really had" the property of MGM 'tattooed on my [explanive] ", she would later say about the management of the studio of her personal life in a reiterated line in the cinematographic version of Mommie Dear .)

Alongside the solid advertising department of the studio, Crawford also did his best to cool the rumors of their business, tell Modern screen In 1932, "Before the camera, we were in love. Now that the photo is over, we are just good friends!"

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Even if things were calmed publicly between the two stars, they continued to connect throughout the wedding of Gable and the growing fame, revealed Crawford during the filming of the 1962 What happened to Bébé Jane . "Yes, Clark and I had a matter, a glorious affair, and it spent much longer than anyone knows," she admitted in an interview published in Conversations with Joan Crawford . Despite their attraction continues to each other, she added that they have never married for several reasons: the two have always been involved in other marriages and "meaning to make more commitments" due to failures of these marriages. "And finally, and perhaps the most important thing," she said, the two icons of the humble beginnings "have become good friends." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The feminizing gable finally fell hard for the queen of the comedy Carole Lombard , who has become the great love of his life, by Closer every week . They were married in 1939 after Gable obtained a divorce from Langham. When he and Crawford gathered for their eighth and last film together, Strange cargo , the following year, Crawford was jealous of both his new love and Wind -Era success. According to the same point of sale, she would have whispered such cruel things about his new life for him that he had left the set in a breath.

Despite this, it was Crawford that Gable turned out when Lombard was tragically killed in a plane crash on January 12, 1942, when he was on tour to promote war obligations less than three years after their marriage . "I just kept him," she told Newquist. "He was drunk, he had to get drunk, and he cried like a baby, as if his life was over, and perhaps, in a way, she had done." Crawford replaced Lombard in what was going to be the next actor's film, They all kissed the bride (1942) and donated all his salary to the Red Cross, which had found Lombard's body after the accident, according to Closwer every week . Meanwhile, the gable struck with sorrow quickly enlisted in the air force, would have a death wish . Although he survived the Second World War and finally married, he cried Lombard until his death of a heart attack in 1960 at the age of 59.

"When he died, I was so amazed that I couldn't even cry," Crawford told Newquist. "All I could do was remember the good times we had spent together." She then admitted that even her last husband, CEO of Pepsi-Cola Alfred Steele , had never filled the place of Gable. "I always wonder what would have happened if we had married, but I'm glad we did not do it," she said. "What we had, between us, was so special ... When he went, part of me did it too, and as much as I liked Alfred, this part of me was never relaunched."