Overview

The 1930s represented the strongest and most significant decade in Clark Gable's career. Later known as The King of Hollywood, Gable started out as a journeyman actor who quickly rose to the level of star, and then icon. With his ruggedly attractive looks and effortless charisma, Gable was the sort of manly romantic lead that bolstered features alongside the likes of Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, and Spencer Tracy. The decade culminated with Gable's most noted movie, Gone With the Wind. This book traces Gable's early career, film-by-film, offering background information and a critical assessment of each of his movies released during the 1930s,

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Author:   James L. Neibaur
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9781476680446

ISBN 10:   1476680442
Pages:   159
Publication Date:   30 May 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments deletevi Introduction 1. The Early Years 2. The Films The Painted Desert (1931) The Easiest Way (1931) Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) The Finger Points (1931) The Secret Six (1931) Laughing Sinners (1931) A Free Soul (1931) Night Nurse (1931) Sporting Blood (1931) Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) Hell Divers (1931) Possessed (1931) Polly of the Circus (1932) Strange Interlude (1932) Red Dust (1932) No Man of Her Own (1932) The White Sister (1933) Hold Your Man (1933) Night Flight (1933) Dancing Lady (1933) It Happened One Night (1934) Men in White (1934) Manhattan Melodrama (1934) Chained (1934) Forsaking All Others (1934) After Office Hours (1935) China Seas (1935) Call of the Wild (1935) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Wife vs. Secretary (1936) San Francisco (1936) Cain and Mabel (1936) Love on the Run (1936) Parnell (1937) Saratoga (1937) Test Pilot (1938) Too Hot to Handle (1938) Idiot’s Delight (1939) Gone with the Wind (1939) 3. After the 1930s Notes Bibliography Index

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James L. Neibaur is a film historian and scholar with more than 30 books and hundreds of articles appearing in Cineaste, Classic Images, Film Quarterly, Films in Review, Filmfax, and Encyclopædia Britannica.

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