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Clark Gable (1901-1960) appeared in 14 movies in uncredited parts from 1924-1930. In 1931 things started to turn around for Gable and his career. Four big things happened for him. (1st) He got his first screen credit in the long forgotten, The Painted Desert. (2nd) He received strong reviews in supporting roles in A Free Soul and The Secret Six. (3rd) He co-starred with Joan Crawford twice that year….they would end up starring in eight movies together and (4th) Gable ended 1931 with his first starring role in Sporting Blood.
Gable would end the 1930’s having starred in three of the biggest films of the decade...It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty and of course Gone With The Wind….all three of these movies won the Oscar® for Best Picture of the year.
Clark Gable would appear on Quigley Publishing’s Annual Top Ten Money Making Stars sixteen times. Only John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise and Gary Cooper have appeared more times on that poll. During World War II, Gable flew several combat missions over Germany. After the war ended, he would appear in 21 more movies, the last being 1961’s The Misfits co-starring Marilyn Monroe. Clark Gable died two weeks after finishing the film of a massive heart attack, he was 59. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable the seventh greatest male actor of all time.
His IMDb page shows 82 acting credits from 1923-1960. This page will rank Clark Gable movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, cameos and his uncredited or bit roles were not included in the rankings.
Clark Gable Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1939
Gone with the Wind (1939)
AA Best Picture Win
AA Best Actor Nom
1934
It Happened One Night (1934)
AA Best Picture Win
AA Best Actor Win
1935
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
AA Best Picture Win
AA Best Actor Nom
1936
San Francisco (1936)
AA Best Picture Nom
1947
The Hucksters (1947)
1937
Saratoga (1937)
1940
Boom Town (1940)
1938
Test Pilot (1938)
AA Best Picture Nom
1948
Command Decision (1948)
1941
Honky Tonk (1941)
1955
The Tall Men (1955)
1949
Any Number Can Play (1949)
1961
The Misfits (1961)
1941
They Met in Bombay (1941)
1935
China Seas (1935)
1953
Mogambo (1953)
1936
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
1931
Possessed (1931)
1951
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
1948
Homecoming (1948)
1933
Dancing Lady (1933)
1934
Chained (1934)
1955
Soldier of Fortune (1955)
1938
Too Hot To Handle (1938)
1931
Hell Divers (1931)
1931
A Free Soul (1931)
1936
Love on the Run (1936)
1958
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
1958
Teacher's Pet (1958)
1934
Forsaking All Others (1934)
1940
Strange Cargo (1940)
1942
Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
1931
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
1932
Red Dust (1932)
1957
Band of Angels (1957)
1945
Adventure (1945)
1939
Idiot's Delight (1939)
1934
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
1940
Comrade X (1940)
1931
The Easiest Way (1931)
1933
Hold Your Man (1933)
1931
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
1931
Night Nurse (1931)
1934
Men in White (1934)
1950
Key to the City (1950)
1936
Cain and Mabel (1936)
1935
Call of the Wild (1935)
1931
The Secret 6 (1931)
1933
The White Sister (1933)
1937
Parnell (1937)
1952
Lone Star (1952)
1956
The King and Four Queens (1956)
1954
Betrayed (1954)
1933
Night Flight (1933)
1932
Polly of the Circus (1932)
1960
It Started in Naples (1960)
1935
After Office Hours (1935)
1931
The Finger Points (1931)
1931
Sporting Blood (1931)
1932
No Man of Her Own (1932)
1950
To Please a Lady (1950)
1931
Laughing Sinners (1931)
1932
Strange Interlude (1932)
1953
Never Let Me Go (1953)
1959
But Not For Me (1959)
Clark Gable Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
1 | Gone with the Wind (1939) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actor Nom |
Vivien Leigh & Olivia de Havilland |
56.60 | 2,179.1 | 3,842.80 | 1 | 92 | 13 / 08 | 100.0 | |
2 | It Happened One Night (1934) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actor Win |
Claudette Colbert & Directed by Frank Capra |
5.20 | 243.9 | 402.40 | 3 | 90 | 05 / 05 | 99.9 | |
3 | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actor Nom |
Charles Laughton & Donald Crisp |
8.20 | 366.3 | 649.90 | 1 | 86 | 08 / 01 | 99.8 | |
4 | San Francisco (1936) AA Best Picture Nom |
Spencer Tracy | 12.60 | 544.2 | 889.80 | 1 | 86 | 06 / 01 | 99.4 | |
6 | The Hucksters (1947) | Deborah Kerr | 9.80 | 286.2 | 350.00 | 17 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 97.2 | |
7 | Saratoga (1937) | Jean Harlow | 9.70 | 403.3 | 539.30 | 2 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 97.0 | |
8 | Boom Town (1940) | Spencer Tracy | 13.10 | 504.5 | 654.70 | 3 | 75 | 02 / 00 | 96.8 | |
8 | Test Pilot (1938) AA Best Picture Nom |
Spencer Tracy & Myrna Loy |
9.70 | 388.2 | 623.30 | 5 | 68 | 03 / 00 | 96.8 | |
9 | Command Decision (1948) | Walter Pidgeon | 7.60 | 205.7 | 261.30 | 22 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 96.5 | |
9 | Honky Tonk (1941) | Lana Turner | 8.50 | 329.1 | 464.10 | 6 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.3 | |
10 | The Tall Men (1955) | Jane Russell & Robert Ryan |
12.10 | 251.7 | 251.70 | 20 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.3 | |
13 | Any Number Can Play (1949) | Alexis Smith | 6.80 | 171.7 | 223.20 | 28 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 96.0 | |
12 | The Misfits (1961) | Marilyn Monroe & Montgomery Clift |
11.40 | 166.5 | 218.50 | 18 | 84 | 00 / 00 | 96.0 | |
14 | They Met in Bombay (1941) | Rosalind Russell | 5.00 | 193.0 | 312.30 | 27 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 95.8 | |
14 | China Seas (1935) | Jean Harlow & Wallace Beery |
4.90 | 219.4 | 367.90 | 5 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 95.1 | |
16 | Mogambo (1953) | Ava Gardner & Grace Kelly |
13.90 | 249.1 | 450.10 | 9 | 67 | 02 / 00 | 94.9 | |
17 | Wife vs. Secretary (1936) | James Stewart & Myrna Loy |
4.50 | 194.0 | 297.10 | 23 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 94.7 | |
19 | Possessed (1931) | Joan Crawford | 3.00 | 156.4 | 231.20 | 21 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 94.7 | |
21 | Across the Wide Missouri (1951) | Ricardo Montalbán | 8.00 | 171.8 | 283.40 | 17 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 94.3 | |
19 | Homecoming (1948) | Lana Turner | 9.70 | 262.3 | 396.70 | 8 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 94.3 | |
22 | Dancing Lady (1933) | Joan Crawford & Fred Astaire |
4.30 | 199.5 | 322.20 | 9 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 94.3 | |
24 | Chained (1934) | Joan Crawford | 3.70 | 174.2 | 266.20 | 5 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 93.6 | |
23 | Soldier of Fortune (1955) | Susan Hayward | 7.90 | 162.9 | 226.90 | 36 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 93.6 | |
24 | Too Hot To Handle (1938) | Myrna Loy | 6.50 | 259.8 | 382.70 | 16 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 92.9 | |
27 | Hell Divers (1931) | Wallace Beery | 3.70 | 188.9 | 328.20 | 12 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 92.1 | |
26 | A Free Soul (1931) | Norma Shearer & Lionel Barrymore |
2.60 | 135.0 | 216.00 | 32 | 75 | 03 / 01 | 91.7 | |
28 | Love on the Run (1936) | Joan Crawford | 3.80 | 164.0 | 267.60 | 34 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 91.7 | |
29 | Run Silent Run Deep (1958) | Burt Lancaster | 7.10 | 128.3 | 180.70 | 33 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 91.1 | |
31 | Teacher's Pet (1958) | Doris Day & Gig Young |
7.70 | 138.6 | 191.00 | 28 | 73 | 02 / 00 | 90.8 | |
30 | Forsaking All Others (1934) | Joan Crawford | 4.00 | 187.3 | 294.50 | 4 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 90.6 | |
32 | Strange Cargo (1940) | Joan Crawford | 3.70 | 144.2 | 210.50 | 35 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 90.4 | |
31 | Somewhere I'll Find You (1942) | Lana Turner | 8.20 | 306.4 | 426.30 | 16 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 90.1 | |
35 | Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) | Greta Garbo | 2.40 | 122.4 | 228.70 | 40 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 89.2 | |
34 | Red Dust (1932) | Jean Harlow | 2.20 | 109.3 | 171.20 | 29 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 89.2 | |
36 | Band of Angels (1957) | Sidney Poitier | 7.10 | 137.5 | 173.50 | 29 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 88.6 | |
35 | Adventure (1945) | Greer Garson | 11.80 | 374.3 | 537.10 | 11 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 88.6 | |
38 | Idiot's Delight (1939) | Norma Shearer | 4.70 | 179.7 | 263.60 | 40 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 88.1 | |
37 | Manhattan Melodrama (1934) | William Powell & Myrna Loy |
2.10 | 98.4 | 165.10 | 49 | 76 | 01 / 01 | 87.7 | |
39 | Comrade X (1940) | Hedy Lamarr | 4.30 | 167.2 | 228.70 | 24 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 87.1 | |
40 | The Easiest Way (1931) | Robert Montgomery | 3.10 | 157.2 | 195.00 | 20 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 86.7 | |
41 | Hold Your Man (1933) | Jean Harlow | 1.90 | 87.6 | 143.70 | 40 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 84.4 | |
43 | Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) | Joan Crawford | 2.50 | 128.8 | 192.60 | 34 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 84.0 | |
42 | Night Nurse (1931) | Barbara Stanwyck | 1.80 | 90.5 | 104.30 | 67 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 83.6 | |
44 | Men in White (1934) | Myrna Loy | 2.50 | 119.2 | 194.80 | 31 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 83.4 | |
46 | Key to the City (1950) | Loretta Young | 6.60 | 147.3 | 190.80 | 28 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 83.4 | |
45 | Cain and Mabel (1936) | Marion Davies | 2.30 | 99.2 | 99.20 | 88 | 66 | 01 / 00 | 82.6 | |
47 | Call of the Wild (1935) | Loretta Young | 2.50 | 110.3 | 110.30 | 51 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 82.5 | |
48 | The Secret 6 (1931) | Wallace Beery & Jean Harlow |
2.10 | 107.5 | 151.00 | 51 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 81.4 | |
50 | The White Sister (1933) | Helen Hayes | 2.10 | 100.4 | 223.90 | 31 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 79.3 | |
51 | Parnell (1937) | Myrna Loy | 4.00 | 164.5 | 261.40 | 49 | 40 | 00 / 00 | 79.1 | |
52 | Lone Star (1952) | Ava Gardner | 6.90 | 134.9 | 213.50 | 33 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 79.1 | |
54 | The King and Four Queens (1956) | Eleanor Parker | 6.40 | 126.0 | 175.30 | 36 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 78.4 | |
53 | Betrayed (1954) | Lana Turner | 5.60 | 131.6 | 279.70 | 56 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 78.4 | |
54 | Night Flight (1933) | Myrna Loy & Lionel Barrymore |
1.60 | 77.1 | 144.50 | 55 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 78.2 | |
53 | Polly of the Circus (1932) | Marion Davies | 1.50 | 74.2 | 98.00 | 58 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 77.5 | |
54 | It Started in Naples (1960) | Sophia Loren | 6.30 | 98.2 | 98.20 | 46 | 58 | 01 / 00 | 77.4 | |
59 | After Office Hours (1935) | Contance Bennett | 2.20 | 97.4 | 164.40 | 61 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 75.1 | |
58 | The Finger Points (1931) | Fay Wray | 1.60 | 79.9 | 95.80 | 81 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 75.1 | |
57 | Sporting Blood (1931) | Ernest Torrence | 1.60 | 83.1 | 135.60 | 75 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 75.1 | |
60 | No Man of Her Own (1932) | Carole Lombard | 1.40 | 67.9 | 67.90 | 75 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 73.4 | |
61 | To Please a Lady (1950) | Barbara Stanwyck | 5.90 | 132.2 | 187.50 | 43 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 73.1 | |
62 | Laughing Sinners (1931) | Joan Crawford | 1.80 | 94.8 | 116.20 | 59 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 69.4 | |
63 | Strange Interlude (1932) | Norma Shearer | 2.70 | 134.0 | 173.20 | 19 | 39 | 00 / 00 | 69.3 | |
64 | Never Let Me Go (1953) | Gene Tierney | 4.50 | 80.7 | 131.60 | 78 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 64.9 | |
65 | But Not For Me (1959) | Carroll Baker | 5.40 | 97.5 | 136.00 | 45 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 57.6 |
Clark Gable Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Movie (Year)
UMR Co-Star Links
World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil)
S
Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) S
Gone with the Wind (1939)
AA Best Picture Win
AA Best Actor Nom
Vivien Leigh &
Olivia de Havilland
3,842.80
San Francisco (1936)
AA Best Picture Nom
Spencer Tracy
889.80
Boom Town (1940)
Spencer Tracy
654.70
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
AA Best Picture Win
AA Best Actor Nom
Charles Laughton &
Donald Crisp
649.90
Test Pilot (1938)
AA Best Picture Nom
Spencer Tracy &
Myrna Loy
623.30
Saratoga (1937)
Jean Harlow
539.30
Adventure (1945)
Greer Garson
537.10
Honky Tonk (1941)
Lana Turner
464.10
Mogambo (1953)
Ava Gardner &
Grace Kelly
450.10
Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
Lana Turner
426.30
It Happened One Night (1934)
AA Best Picture Win
AA Best Actor Win
Claudette Colbert &
Directed by Frank Capra
402.40
Homecoming (1948)
Lana Turner
396.70
Too Hot To Handle (1938)
Myrna Loy
382.70
China Seas (1935)
Jean Harlow &
Wallace Beery
367.90
The Hucksters (1947)
Deborah Kerr
350.00
Hell Divers (1931)
Wallace Beery
328.20
Dancing Lady (1933)
Joan Crawford &
Fred Astaire
322.20
They Met in Bombay (1941)
Rosalind Russell
312.30
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
James Stewart &
Myrna Loy
297.10
Forsaking All Others (1934)
Joan Crawford
294.50
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
Ricardo Montalbán
283.40
Betrayed (1954)
Lana Turner
279.70
Love on the Run (1936)
Joan Crawford
267.60
Chained (1934)
Joan Crawford
266.20
Idiot's Delight (1939)
Norma Shearer
263.60
Parnell (1937)
Myrna Loy
261.40
Command Decision (1948)
Walter Pidgeon
261.30
Possessed (1931)
Joan Crawford
231.20
Comrade X (1940)
Hedy Lamarr
228.70
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
Greta Garbo
228.70
Soldier of Fortune (1955)
Susan Hayward
226.90
The White Sister (1933)
Helen Hayes
223.90
Any Number Can Play (1949)
Alexis Smith
223.20
The Misfits (1961)
Marilyn Monroe &
Montgomery Clift
218.50
A Free Soul (1931)
Norma Shearer &
Lionel Barrymore
216.00
Lone Star (1952)
Ava Gardner
213.50
Strange Cargo (1940)
Joan Crawford
210.50
The Easiest Way (1931)
Robert Montgomery
195.00
Men in White (1934)
Myrna Loy
194.80
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
Joan Crawford
192.60
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Doris Day &
Gig Young
191.00
Key to the City (1950)
Loretta Young
190.80
To Please a Lady (1950)
Barbara Stanwyck
187.50
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
Burt Lancaster
180.70
The King and Four Queens (1956)
Eleanor Parker
175.30
Band of Angels (1957)
Sidney Poitier
173.50
Strange Interlude (1932)
Norma Shearer
173.20
Red Dust (1932)
Jean Harlow
171.20
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
William Powell &
Myrna Loy
165.10
After Office Hours (1935)
Contance Bennett
164.40
The Secret 6 (1931)
Wallace Beery &
Jean Harlow
151.00
Night Flight (1933)
Myrna Loy &
Lionel Barrymore
144.50
Hold Your Man (1933)
Jean Harlow
143.70
But Not For Me (1959)
Carroll Baker
136.00
Sporting Blood (1931)
Ernest Torrence
135.60
Never Let Me Go (1953)
Gene Tierney
131.60
Laughing Sinners (1931)
Joan Crawford
116.20
Night Nurse (1931)
Barbara Stanwyck
104.30
Polly of the Circus (1932)
Marion Davies
98.00
The Finger Points (1931)
Fay Wray
95.80
Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) | S |
---|---|---|---|
Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) | S |
Gone with the Wind (1939) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actor Nom |
Vivien Leigh & Olivia de Havilland |
3,842.80 | |
San Francisco (1936) AA Best Picture Nom |
Spencer Tracy | 889.80 | |
Boom Town (1940) | Spencer Tracy | 654.70 | |
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actor Nom |
Charles Laughton & Donald Crisp |
649.90 | |
Test Pilot (1938) AA Best Picture Nom |
Spencer Tracy & Myrna Loy |
623.30 | |
Saratoga (1937) | Jean Harlow | 539.30 | |
Adventure (1945) | Greer Garson | 537.10 | |
Honky Tonk (1941) | Lana Turner | 464.10 | |
Mogambo (1953) | Ava Gardner & Grace Kelly |
450.10 | |
Somewhere I'll Find You (1942) | Lana Turner | 426.30 | |
It Happened One Night (1934) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actor Win |
Claudette Colbert & Directed by Frank Capra |
402.40 | |
Homecoming (1948) | Lana Turner | 396.70 | |
Too Hot To Handle (1938) | Myrna Loy | 382.70 | |
China Seas (1935) | Jean Harlow & Wallace Beery |
367.90 | |
The Hucksters (1947) | Deborah Kerr | 350.00 | |
Hell Divers (1931) | Wallace Beery | 328.20 | |
Dancing Lady (1933) | Joan Crawford & Fred Astaire |
322.20 | |
They Met in Bombay (1941) | Rosalind Russell | 312.30 | |
Wife vs. Secretary (1936) | James Stewart & Myrna Loy |
297.10 | |
Forsaking All Others (1934) | Joan Crawford | 294.50 | |
Across the Wide Missouri (1951) | Ricardo Montalbán | 283.40 | |
Betrayed (1954) | Lana Turner | 279.70 | |
Love on the Run (1936) | Joan Crawford | 267.60 | |
Chained (1934) | Joan Crawford | 266.20 | |
Idiot's Delight (1939) | Norma Shearer | 263.60 | |
Parnell (1937) | Myrna Loy | 261.40 | |
Command Decision (1948) | Walter Pidgeon | 261.30 | |
Possessed (1931) | Joan Crawford | 231.20 | |
Comrade X (1940) | Hedy Lamarr | 228.70 | |
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) | Greta Garbo | 228.70 | |
Soldier of Fortune (1955) | Susan Hayward | 226.90 | |
The White Sister (1933) | Helen Hayes | 223.90 | |
Any Number Can Play (1949) | Alexis Smith | 223.20 | |
The Misfits (1961) | Marilyn Monroe & Montgomery Clift |
218.50 | |
A Free Soul (1931) | Norma Shearer & Lionel Barrymore |
216.00 | |
Lone Star (1952) | Ava Gardner | 213.50 | |
Strange Cargo (1940) | Joan Crawford | 210.50 | |
The Easiest Way (1931) | Robert Montgomery | 195.00 | |
Men in White (1934) | Myrna Loy | 194.80 | |
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) | Joan Crawford | 192.60 | |
Teacher's Pet (1958) | Doris Day & Gig Young |
191.00 | |
Key to the City (1950) | Loretta Young | 190.80 | |
To Please a Lady (1950) | Barbara Stanwyck | 187.50 | |
Run Silent Run Deep (1958) | Burt Lancaster | 180.70 | |
The King and Four Queens (1956) | Eleanor Parker | 175.30 | |
Band of Angels (1957) | Sidney Poitier | 173.50 | |
Strange Interlude (1932) | Norma Shearer | 173.20 | |
Red Dust (1932) | Jean Harlow | 171.20 | |
Manhattan Melodrama (1934) | William Powell & Myrna Loy |
165.10 | |
After Office Hours (1935) | Contance Bennett | 164.40 | |
The Secret 6 (1931) | Wallace Beery & Jean Harlow |
151.00 | |
Night Flight (1933) | Myrna Loy & Lionel Barrymore |
144.50 | |
Hold Your Man (1933) | Jean Harlow | 143.70 | |
But Not For Me (1959) | Carroll Baker | 136.00 | |
Sporting Blood (1931) | Ernest Torrence | 135.60 | |
Never Let Me Go (1953) | Gene Tierney | 131.60 | |
Laughing Sinners (1931) | Joan Crawford | 116.20 | |
Night Nurse (1931) | Barbara Stanwyck | 104.30 | |
Polly of the Circus (1932) | Marion Davies | 98.00 | |
The Finger Points (1931) | Fay Wray | 95.80 |
The Best of Clark Gable
#5 Boom Town (1940) is about rival oil-well drillers(Gable and Spencer Tracy) who fight over women and business interests over a twenty year span. The Gable/Tracy team made three very successful movies. The average gross of the three Gable/Tracy movies was 241 million in adjusted for inflation dollars. The other two movies were Test Pilot and San Francisco. After the success of Boom Town, Tracy started insisting on the same top billing clause in his contract that Gable had enjoyed, effectively ending one of cinema’s most famous screen teams. Gable also co-starred with Joan Crawford 8 times, Myrna Loy 7 times, Jean Harlow 6 times and Lana Turner 4 times during his career.
#4 San Francisco (1936) Centered around the 1906 San Francisco earthquakes, this movie was the biggest box office hit of the year as well as a Top 10 film of the entire 1930s. It was nominated for 6 Oscars® including nominations for Best Picture and Best Actor for Spencer Tracy. Gable felt Tracy should have gotten a Best Supporting Actor nomination since Tracy’s name was beneath the movie title in the credits. Legendary silent film director, D.W. Griffith, helped direct the famous earthquake sequence. It is rumored that Spencer Tracy is the person that gave Clark Gable his famous nickname “The King of Hollywood”. One day he saw Gable walking on the set and said “Oh look here comes the King”.
#3 It Happened One Night (1934) Clark Gable won his only Oscar® for this movie. Movie is one of three movies to win the Big Five major Academy Awards® (actor,actress,director, movie,and screenplay). The other two…..1975’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and 1991’s Silence of the Lambs. To promote the movie, Gable was required to introduce the movie for each showing for two days at a pre-selected theater. Can you imagine Tom Hanks hanging out at your local theater, so he could talk about his movie before each showing for an entire weekend? At the time, a standard practice was to release movies in packages of five movies (one popular movie and four duds) at the same time. Then to figure out how much money a single movie earned at the box office they would take the total and divide by 5. This practice made reaching profitability clauses in contracts almost impossible to reach, and on this particular movie, the director, Frank Capra, was not paid his bonus due to that clause. It Happened One Night was actually much more popular than the studio books led to believe.
#2 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) One of the biggest hits of the 1930s. Mutiny on the Bounty won only one Oscar®, but it was Best Picture of the Year. Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone were all nominated for Best Actor Oscars® for this movie. This is the only time three actors have been nominated for Best Actor for the same movie. They all lost to Victor McLaglen’s performance in The Informer. For Gable it was his 2nd nomination for Best Actor Oscar® nomination. One of the last times Gable was seen on screen without his famous mustache. Clark Gable was not the first or last actor to play Fletcher Christian. Errol Flynn, Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson have all taken away the Bounty from Captain Bligh in other films. For my money Mutiny on the Bounty is easily the best adaptation of the story of The Bounty. And I think the difference is the team of Gable and Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh
#1 Gone With The Wind (1939). Gone With The Wind is the all-time box office champ when using inflated grosses. It’s current estimated box office total is 1.7 billion dollars in North America…yes billion not million. When looking at total worldwide gross the number falls a little under 3 billion. Gone With The Wind was re-released numerous times over the years(believe it or not…VCRs and DVD players were not around). So not only is Gone With The Wind the number one movie of 1940 and 1941. It finished as the number 10 movie in 1947, number 4 in 1954, number 9 in 1961. It’s final major re-release was in 1974 with an additional 70 million in box office. Gable received his third Oscar® nomination for Best Actor, but lost to Robert Donat. Gone With The Wind did win the Oscar® for Best Picture of the Year as well as 7 other Oscars® . I think it is safe to say….”That frankly we do care about this movie”.
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Great stuff! I really enjoyed this.
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‘It happened one night’ is my favorite Clark Gable performance, favorite Frank Capra movie, and one of my favorite screwballs. Not to take away from ‘Gone with the wind’ or ‘Mutiny.’
Hey pchh…I think it is safe to say that all 3 movies are great ones.
He was fabulous! Love the moustache! Loved him in It Happened One Night – one of my favorites and, of course, Gone with the Wind.
I think they just released a more clean DVD/Blu-Ray copy of It Happened One Night..it might be worth a view….there are some pretty bad copies out there of this very old movie
You know him winning the Oscar was funny, because MGM thought Gabe was getting to bold with some of the movie execs, so they made him do, what they called, a low quality movie. This was supposed to teach him a “lesson” about speaking his mind. It in turn, won him an Oscar.. if that’s not irony, I don’t know what is
Hey Scarlett. I agree. I am currently reading Clark Gable A Biography by Warren Harris and he is talking about that in the book…
Well, Clark Gable was a very good and talented actor. So many wonderful films. San Francisco was a great film and of course, Gone With The Wind. It is unfortunate that he died at the age of 59. Plus not knowing that he was having a son. Thanks for the info but no personal info on him either. I like to read some personal info on all the movie stars, etc. GREAT WORK – THANK YOU.
Hey Bern…I will try and include more personal information in future updates.
hanks so much for the information on Clark Gable – enjoyed it very much. Good research. Betrayed is the movie that had Victor Mature and Lana Turner – could not think of the name the other day. Would like to see that movie again – will look on the movie channel…..
Hey, still waiting on ROCK HUDSON, ha, ha, ha. He did make some very good movies such as Undefeated with John Wayne…Paul Newman would be a great subject too.
Hey Bern1960….very cool….and I can now say that the Rock Hudson page is done…just check out the site index…under classic actors you will see your boy Rock