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Clark Gable Trivia
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- He worked as a lumberman in the Willamette valley of Oregon in the early 1920s. After a couple of months of doing that, he quit, saying "that the work was too hard", and he would rather act, instead. He then left to go to Hollywood, where he began his acting career.
- His wife Sylvia Ashley was born Edith Louise Sylvia Hawkes in 1904. She was the widow of Douglas Fairbanks. Her first husband was Lord Anthony Ashley (they divorced November 28, 1934), her third husband Lord Stanley of Alderney, and her fifth husband Prince Dimitri Djordjadze (whom she married in 1954 and stayed married to until her death). She died June 29, 1977. Her grave stone refers to her as "Princess Sylvia Djordjadze."
- He was voted the 21st Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.
- Cousin-in-law of Howard Hawks and Kenneth Hawks.
- In the '70s his Encino, California estate was subdivided and turned into a very upscale tract development called "Clark Gable Estates."
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