Dear Mr. G.: The Biography of Clark Gable
By Jean Garceau and Inez Cocke
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Dear Mr. G., which was first published in 1961, is an engaging account by Clark Gable and Carole Lombard’s personal secretary and business manager, Jean Garceau.
Here is the story of a kind, generous man—a man with a sense of humor and who, despite the fame and adulation, still had the humility to say, when it was suggested that he direct films, “Direct? I haven’t learned how to act yet!”
This is the true story, in words and pictures, of Clark Gable’s life, chronicled by the one woman who knew him longest—Jean Garceau.
Jean Garceau
JEAN GARCEAU was Hollywood actor Clark Gable’s private secretary and business manager. In 1936, while working for Carole Lombard’s agent Myron Selznick, Garceau met Lombard and became her exclusive agent. Lombard was the highest-paid star in Hollywood when she married Clark Cable in 1939, and Garceau became his secretary. With Garceau, Gable broke his strictly maintained silence about his early years: his two previous marriages to Josephine Dillon and Ria Langham, his family life, his early struggles on Broadway and in Hollywood. Jean Garceau stayed with him for almost twenty years after Carole Lombard’s tragic death at age 33 in a plane crash, remaining an integral part of his life through his war service, his film career’s ups and downs, and his marriages to Lady Sylvia Ashley and Kay Spreckles Gable. INEZ COCKE was an American screenwriter in Hollywood during the 1950s. Her two best-known films were Interlude (1957), directed by Douglas Sirk and starring June Allyson and Rossano Brazzi; and Law and Order (1953), directed by Oscar winner Nathan Juran and starring Ronald Reagan and Dorothy Malone.
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