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Does Clark Gable realize how his ex-wife, Josephine Dillon, has been persecuted by reporters because she will not tell, even for a price, the intimate details of their life together? Does Boris Karloff realize what his ex-wife has similarly suffered by remaining silent? No one can realize — until reading this story!
change her address to escape scandal-hunters. Borh of these women, almost distraught, half-sick with anxiety, have come r<> Movie Classic as their friend, and have
cried our their sense of the injustice of such persecution in almost the same words:
"/ am so unimportant. I ask nothing except to be allowed to earn my living in peace and quiet. I don't know how to deal with such people — they frighten me. If they would only leave me alone ..."
As long ago as last autumn, Josephine Dillon Gable told me of the persecution she was enduring. She was desperate to find a way to stop it. She wondered if a story of Clark Gable's fight for fame, during the time they were married, would not satisfy the curiosity about their life together. She told me this stop,-, and it was published in the December, 1931, issue of Movie Classic. But its appearance only added fuel to the fire. If she had given a story to Movie Classic, why couldn't she give one to them? They could not understand her reticence, did not want to understand it.
Neither of these women has any desire to capitalize on the sudden rise to fame of her ex-mate, or on the name she has a legal right to bear. And neither has any desire to harm, by any unwise word or by any statement to an irresponsible reporter, the men whom they once loved and married. As a consequence, they have been subjected to insults, bullying, threats and actual reprisals. They have been forced to wonder if they could trust even their friends. These ex-wives have had to ask tor protection !
Clark Gable had lived in Los Angeles for seven years of struggle before he suddenly found fame. Every shabby side street in that part of Hollywood known as "below the Boulevard" has just such handsome, hopeful and often hungry actors who — once m a w hile —leave their unpretentious bungalows in make-up and rented tuxedos to play a bit in a society scene. Nobody knows their names, nobody knows how they live. A few gas station employees and garage mechanics (pals of his) knew of Gable's hopes and fears, his habits and his history — and they were the only ones. Except — the woman w ho w as his wife for six of those years of struggle.
So the bloodhounds of the yellow press tracked Josephine Dillon Gable down to the humble little backyard house she had rented, in 1 he shadow ot Hollywood's own "Grand Motel," the Roosevelt. Mere she earned a (Continued on page yS)
Josephine Dillon Gable was divorced from Clark Gable two years ago, after six years of marriage. \\ hen he suddenly became the new Great Lover, scandaUscckcrs sought tier out, positive that she would sav culling things about him. She -■ i vl just the opposite, despite money offers, despite threats. In retaliation, they h.i\ i injured her
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