The King of Hollywood

ode to Clark Gable

Frankly speaking 

Mr. Gable you were

one hunk of handsome

Rhett Butler stayed

fixed in our minds

as you walked out

that door

such a dandy chap 

In "Gone With the Wind"

a style that was

 de'rigueur' for the era

     then conversely so..

rugged with animal

magnetism in Mogambo

Frankly my dear man..you were

the ultimate leading man

that could play any part...

dashing  or daring 

we did give a damn about 

                                      Clark Gable..

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and he did not win the Oscar for playing Rhett because they said he was just playing himself.
The range of emotion he showed in that film, especially when his daughter died, was amazing and Oscar worthy.
Test Pilot was another favorite of mine, with him, Spencer Tracy and Myrna Loy....
But yes, he had quite the screen presence.

and this poem pays a fine tribute to him and his career. and he had such a strong love for Carole Lombard who died tragically in a plane crash when she was only 33.
j.

[Fran Marie]

Which was surprising..i thought he was
deserving of the Oscar for that role..
yes I read about his marriage to
C lombard and her early death..
I think he died in his 50s while
filming The Misfits with Maryln Monroe
I try to just write short brief odes on
different stars..i love old Hollywood
and reading bios on the stars..
thanks Jacob so much ..

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Yes, Fran, he was 59....and I, too, love old Hollywood, I love film noir and old black and white movies...
but then that is what we mainly had when I was a kid in the fifties.
still loving and I find the bio's fascinating as well, who loved whom, who hated working with whom, who were the really nice stars like Barbara Stanwyck---and who were nearly impossible to work with----all good stuff.

[S.zaynab.kamoonpury]

I must look him up then as you describe a dandy actor in a very eloquent attractive poetic way but one i haven't heard of as much as Brad Pitt.
My friends think George Clooney is so debonair.
Kudos!
Plz do read and comment my newest poem too titled, "Dandy randy Tom cat"

[John the Baptist]

I recently saw him as Fletcher Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty." Even without using a British accent, he was convincing.

[Fran Marie]

Thanks yes that was quite a story
I didn't see that particular movie
of his ..but read about it the mutineers
and all..

I'm sure Gable was convincing..a skillful
actor indeed..