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Recounts the life and career of a larger-than-life Hollywood legend, including his ruthless ambition and his affairs with stars such as Joan Crawford and Carole Lombard. By the author of Marilyn's Men.
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From AudioFile
Clark Gable, King of Hollywood, was a charismatic character who was in real life very much like Rhett Butler. Wayne delves into every aspect of Gable's life and career, bringing his successes, failures and escapades to the listener. Bailey's narration is superb. She captures the speech mannerisms, personalities and swaggers of the men and the sophistication and sexuality of the women. Portrait of a Misfit includes descriptions of Gable's hundred-plus films and num-erous affairs. This biography revives the image of Gable as a magnetic personality in the days when "men were men." M.B.K. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
From Kirkus Reviews
The King of Tragedy is discovered behind the King of Hollywood--by the Queen of Trash Bios. In her tenth Hollywood bio, Wayne (Gable's Women, 1987; Crawford's Men, 1988; Ava's Men, 1990; Grace Kelly's Men, 1991, etc.) goes beyond paste-up to embark on self-plagiary. She makes no mention of Gable's Women and simply jumps into rewriting herself, adding clips from familiar scenes about Gable from her bios of his lovers Crawford, Gardner, and Kelly. Is this a new book? Well, maybe, but no page smells fresh. Once more we get the famous fights, the seethings and soothings, dramatized in Wayne's own dialogue, as between Gable and Crawford: ``I'm sick and tired of this Rhett business.'' ``Not if I play Scarlett. We're dynamite together.'' ``Yeah.'' ``You'll insist?'' ``Carole [Lombard] wants the part, too.'' ``Scarlett's not a blonde, for Christ's sake!'' ``I wouldn't know because I haven't read the goddamn book!'' Wayne's Gable is ``an alcoholic, a bland love, a scoundrel, an egotist, and an opportunist who hit the casting couch for a homosexual encounter with a well-known leading man to get into films.'' And he has a tragic mother-complex. The gay encounter, with a friend of gay director George Cukor, later resulted in Gable having Cukor replaced on Gone with the Wind when Gable didn't want his past dug up. But we've read this story in Gable's Women, just as we've read and reread about the star's affairs with Ava, Joan, and Grace, and about his run-in with Marilyn (in Marilyn's Men, 1992). Even Lombard's knitting of a special little sleeve for Gable lacks zip. Wayneland recycled. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherRobson Books, London
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0860518531
- ISBN 13 9780860518532
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
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