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Don’t Know What To Be For Halloween?

Grab a pal and go as Gable and Lombard!
This is not a joke.
A seller on ebay has just listed these handsomely-crafted-in-France masks of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable. See:

Oh the LOLS.
The seller estimates them to be from the mid-1950’s to early 1960’s. (Meaning Clark may have seen them!)
If YOU want to be one of [...]

Dear Mr. Gable: You’ve Got A Hot New Site!

I’ve been meaning to do a post on this for awhile so hear you go.
Clark Gable’s got a spanking new website that you should all check out at: www.dearmrgable.com
The creator of the website, Carolyn, has made it into Gable galore with a photo gallery, multimedia, information, articles and more. There’s plenty of Carole too! For [...]

A Little More About The Ranch

Belinda was kind enough to scan and send us an article from Architectural Digest: Academy Awards Collectors. The article contains a bit more information -and illustrations- on the Encino ranch home owned by Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. Check it out below and don’t forget to press FULL SIZE.
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Happy Birthday To Ma!

Ok we are a little early but W.T.F.!
June gave me the heads up about a little treasure: a recording of Clark Gable singing an impromptu Happy Birthday to Carole Lombard over the radio.
You MUST CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!!
NOTE: It is 3:06 minutes into the NPR segment that you will hear Gable’s singing.
And if you haven’t [...]

Inside The Encino Ranch Home

Thanks to Carolyn you can now go inside the Encino Ranch home by checking out the new section entitled “Inside Carole Lombard’s Homes” in the Photo Archives.
CLICK HERE to see them now.
I’ll be adding more photos of all of Carole Lombard’s homes in the next few days so stay tuned!!

Own Some of the Gable-Lombard Ranch!

An Encino home built on almost an acre of the former estate of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard is on the market right now for a cool $4.2 million.
The sellers are Sam Haskell, former head of worldwide television at the William Morris Agency and chairman of the Miss America organization, and his wife, Mary, a [...]

Tally’s Lombard Collection: Part 6 - A Letter From Mrs.Gable V

Pam my dear: ask and you shall receive! Tally’s sharing with us that letter from Kay Gable about the sale of Carole Lombard’s brown dress and flowers. So here you go:
“Here is a scan of Kay’s letter mentioning the dress sale in Feb of 1963.The woman’s name was SIMON, and she had lost the original [...]

What Did Carole Lombard Keep On Her Dressing Table?

Look what Carolyn sent! “This is the framed photo of Clark as a toddler that Carole kept on her dressing table,” she says. “Apparently it was the only photo of Clark she kept in her room.”
Take a peek:

Too cute. Thanks Carolyn!

The Gables Were Just Like Us!

In the sense that they owned a martini shaker and candlesticks.
Below is a photo of engraved candlesticks belonging to Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. (These were also sold at auction a few years ago). They are matching short silver candlesticks, each engraved ‘G and L.’

Next is the Gable and Lombard martini shaker. Carole Lombard [...]

A Ring From The Gable-Lombard Romance

I know a lot of you like these types of posts so here is another one: A gold dome ring with a ribbon of inset diamonds given to Carole Lombard by Clark Gable. The inscription on the inside of the band, like the bracelets, reads: ‘I Love You, C.G.’
Like the others, it was sold at [...]