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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 [...]

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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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!!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

70 years ago today, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable officially became known as “The Gables”.
On March 2, 1939 the two lovebirds eloped (with Otto Winkler chaperoning) to Kingman, Ariz., to be married without informing friends. The two remained married nearly three years until death did them part. Even then Clark continued to love and cherish [...]

Original Caption: (LA2)PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 26, 1940 AILING SHOULDER SENDS GABLE TO EASTERN HOSPITAL– Film actor Clark Gable, accompanied by his wife, Carole Lombard, left by train today for Baltimore where he will enter Johns Hopkins Hospital for examination for an ailing shoulder.
Such a glammy pair. And Mrs. G with those shoes! And fur! For [...]

An lovely 1928 Pathe portrait of Carol [no e] Lombard don’t you think? Photo by Wm. E. Thomas.
And I’d like to thank Madame TALLY for giving me an idea of what to post next:

Above is a pair of sterling silver I.D. bracelets that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard gifted to each other early in their [...]

Cock Pheasants! Behold:

Original Caption: Watertown, South Dakota, Oct 5- MOVIE STARS GO A HUNTING- Carole Lombard and her husband, Clark Gable, took time out from their Hollywood work for some upland game shooting in South Dakota. Both Miss Lombard and Gable are holding cock pheasants, part of the bag they obtained in what Gable described [...]