Clark Gable

(1901-1960) lived at Kearney. Actor, considered "the King of Hollywood" during the Golden Era of the motion picture industry, he appeared in more than 70 movies, often opposite the era's most popular actresses, and was leading box-office attraction for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for almost 30 years, appeared on cover of Time, August 31, 1936; was stationed in spring of 1943 at Kearney Army Air Field; his star was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and his wife Carole Lombard was honored with a star also in 1960. Consult Kearney /NE/ Hub, April 5, 1943, p. 1 and Current Biography (1945) 212-215 and Nebraska History, Vol 72 (Fall 1991) 118-126 and American National Biography, Vol 8 (1999) 594-596 and Jane Ellen Wayne, The Leading Men of MGM (Carroll and Graf, 2005) Chapter 4.

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