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Title: Rogue...light? Oddly named crossover capable, attractive, but frankly, my dear, it's no Clark Gable; Oddly named crossover capable, attractive, but frankly, my dear, it's no Clark Gable.(Autos - Reviews)
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Date: September 7, 2007
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Clark Gable
Clark Gable, a movie actor, received a letter addressed to him at the Metro-Golden-Mayer (MGM) Studio, Hollywood, California on May 12, 1939. The letter was postmarked Columbus, Ohio and asked "Just who do you think you are that you can hook me and keep my human respect and marry another woman." "Prophesy or no - anyone that is small enough to live with another wife when he is hooked, I don't wish to ever see." "I demand my freedom and I'll get it or I'll know the reason why."

Efforts to locate the person who wrote the letter were not successful. On November 2, 1937, Clark Gable was the victim of an extortion letter from Cleveland, Ohio. On February 21, 1938, Gable received an extortion letter from Fonda, Iowa demanding that he send $1,000. The investigation revealed that the letter had been written by an Iowa farmhand, not the woman whose name was signed to the note. The farmhand had sent the note after the woman spurned him. On August 18, 1936, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania man sent Gable an extortion letter demanding $5,000 from Gable and MGM Studio. He advised that if he didn't receive all $10,000, he would do bodily harm to Gable. On July 6, 1940, an attorney at the MGM Studios opened a letter addressed to Clark Gable requesting that he deposit a generous amount of money in the American Trust, Jefferson Street Branch in San Francisco. On December 3, 1940, Clark Gable and his wife, Carol Lombard, received a letter wherein they were threatened with kidnaping to be held for ransom.


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Chapters: James Stewart, Clark Gable, Henry H. Arnold, Robert Olds, Paul Mantz, Carl Andrew Spaatz, John C. "Pappy" Herbst, Bernard Barker, Arch Hall, Sr., Rex D. Davis, Donald Norton Yates, Neal Edward Smith. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 121. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908 July 2, 1997) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime Achievement award. He was a major MGM contract star. He also had a noted military career, a World War II and Vietnam War veteran, who rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Reserve. Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He is the most represented leading actor on the AFI's 100 Years100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) and AFI's 10 Top 10 lists. He is also the most represented leading actor on the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time list presented by Entertainment Weekly. As of 2007, ten of his films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry. Stewart left his mark on a wide range of film genres, including westerns, suspense thrillers, family films, biographies and screwball comedies. He worked for a number of renowned directors later in his career, most notably Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, George Cukor, and Anthony Mann. He won many of the industry's highest honors and earned Lifetime Achi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16273 ... Read more