Clark Gable Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

It's an extra dividend when you like the girl you're in love with.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.

Trivia

Both of Clark's parents were of German ancestry.

According to military records released in 2005, Clark's weekly wage was listed as $7,500 for his movie work.

One of Clark's golf caddies in 1949, was a young high school student later turned movie star himself, Robert Wagner.

His son, John Clark Gable, was born on March 20, 1961, 4 months after Clark's death.

Clark was voted the 8th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 2000.

In the summer of 1942, Clark enlisted in the army in honor of his late wife, Carole Lombard who had been killed in a plane crash while on tour selling war bonds.

In 1924, he joined a theatre company in Portland.

At the age of 14, Clark was 6 feet tall and weighed 150 pounds.

When Clark was born he was mistakenly listed as a female on his birth certificate.

Clark: I'm just a lucky slob who happened to be in the right place at the right time.