Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

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On August 11, 1942, he enlisted as a private in the Army Air Force. Found qualified for OCS, he started the rigorous training at 41 among men who were fifteen and twenty years his junior. In a class of 2600, he finished gunnery school No. 700. By the time he was shipped to England, he'd earned his Captaincy. As gunner and operational photographer, his job was to take action pictures over enemy territory, and from those pictures to make a training film. His other job was to man a gun and shoot at attacking planes. Next to being under fire, his greatest discomfort was the publicity he couldn't always avoid. What he wanted most was to do a good job. What he wanted almost as much was to be left alone — not to be singled out because once upon a time he'd been a movie actor. A year later he returned with campaign ribbons, the Air Medal for his combat missions and 50,000 feet of film. A press conference in Washington. A hundred reporters and one uneasy Air Corps Captain. Yes, he'd shot at many German planes. No, he didn't think he'd hit any. Yes, he'd been a little scared. Yes, his own plane had been hit, but nothing out of the ordinary. Then someone asked for a fifty-word tribute to the men he'd fought with. He answered quietly. "That's something I couldn't put into words — " He spent almost a year on his picture. It's called "Combat America." Originally, it was meant for the Armed Forces only. Because of its excellence, the government will give it general release. Late in '44, Captain Gable was placed on inactive duty. For obvious reasons. Flights at 20,000 feet are hard on the system even of youngsters, and after a year on the ground, he was out of training. Rather than keep him on minor assignments, the AAF felt he could be of greater service in the movies, rated essential to soldier and civilian morale. Clark didn't like it, but the choice wasn't offered him. On one point he had his way. No discharge. He's still a member of the AAF, subject to recall, should he be needed. Once out of uniform, he went to Oregon on a two-months' fishing trip. Then to Florida and New York. At M-G-M, his first picture was in preparation: "Strange Adventure," in which Clark will play a Marine on furlough. If the schedule holds, he will be at work when you read this. The movies didn't make Gable. He was fashioned by the land he was born on and the people he came from, by the dragons he vanguished and the dream he followed. Through such adulation as few have known, he has kept the simplicity of his forbears. Through tragedy, he has gained new strength. Through the comradeship and service of battle, he has found meanings in life beyond the personal. Through all the tests by which we are measured, he has been weighed in the balance and found not wanting. The rest doesn't matter. He would laugh at all this. "Too many words, and they're all too long." So let us put an end to words. 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