Clark Gable
For nearly thirty years, Clark Gable was "the
King" of Hollywood. Female fans swooned, male admirers were
made envious of his unaffected masculinity. Through jaunty,
self-assured performances in films like It Happened One
Night, San Francisco and Gone With the
Wind, he carved a niche for himself as the
quintessential American movie star.
The play is set on the Nevada location of Gable's
last picture, The Misfits. While waiting for his
perennially tardy co-star Marilyn Monroe to arrive on the
set, Gable reminisces about his Horatio Alger life and
career, touching on his stormy relationship with his oil
wildcatter father, his marriages to older women, his
numerous affairs and his great love, wife Carole Lombard,
who died in a 1942 plane crash...a tragedy from which Gable
never recovered.
"Insightful", "funny", and "racy" are words that
audiences have used to describe Michael B. Druxman's GABLE.
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