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"I'm not too old or too grey
or too set in my ways to soy yes to
marriage a fifth time,"
says Clark, who's the marrying kind
BY DENNY SHANE
w,
London
henever I mention that I spent some time in Europe with Clark Gable, ears perk up and I'm bombarded with questions about him.
"How does he feel about Sylvia Ashley?" "Is he in love with Gene Tierney, as some of the columnists hint?"
"Is he still grieving over Carole Lombard ?"
"How does he look now?"
"Do you think he'll ever marry again?"
Gable, who has a reputation for a closed mouth, has plenty to say when he feels in the mood to confide. Of marriage, he admits with unexpected enthusiasm, "Of course, I'd marry again if I knew the right girl! That is, if she'd say yes.
"I'm not too old or too grey — or too set in my ways to say yes to marriage a fifth time," Clark declared firmly.
"Just don't ask me for advice on staying married," he grinned wryly. "I wouldn't know the secret. I must have learned something about marriage since I went into it the first time — that was in 1924 — but I couldn't tell you just what," he admitted.
One thing about Clark Gable is clear. He is definitely the marrying kind. He has invariably proposed to the women with whom he really fell in love, and married them
Twenty-eight years ago he found himself in love with a woman years older than he. Her knowledge and her adult strength and charm had great appeal for the young, unpolished Gable. They married — and eventually parted without rancor or bitterness on either side. I've met and talked with the former first Mrs. Gable, Josephine Dillon. Her words about him were only the kindest.
Once again Clark Gable married an older and very charming woman, socially-prominent Rhea Gable. Theirs was a marriage that again followed in Clark's pattern of looking to people who knew more than he did. That's how one grows. He learned ( and contributed) a great deal. His first two marriages can (continued on pace 58)
"Sure, I've been unhappy," says Clark. "After marriage has failed, for example. But you can't go on being miserable."
Of his marriage to Sylvia Ashley, Clark confides, "That was unfortunate. The faults weren't all on one side, you know."
In London with co-star Gene Tierney during the making of "Never Let Me Go." Their rumored romance proved untrue.
Lunching with Suzanne Dadolle, one of the French girls he's dated. He's now in Africa with Ava Gardner for "Mogambo."
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