Clark Gable
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William Clark Gable was an American film actor. Often referred to as the "King of Hollywood", he had roles in more than 60 films in a variety of genres during a career that lasted 37 years, three decades of which was as a leading man. He was named the seventh greatest male movie star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute.
Gable in a publicity portrait in 1940
Gable's 1901 birthplace in Cadiz, Ohio
In 1928's Machinal with Zita Johann, Gable was lauded as "young, vigorous, and brutally masculine" by one critic.
Jean Harlow and Gable in The Secret Six (1931)
AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars
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AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years... series.
Image: Katharine Hepburn publicity photograph
Image: Humphrey Bogart 1940
Image: Jezebel 1938 Bette Davis cropped
Image: Grant, Cary (Suspicion) 01 Crisco edit