Clark Gable in the 1930s

The Films That Made Him King of Hollywood

James L. Neibaur (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

159 Seiten

2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8044-6 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The 1930s represented the strongest and most significant decade in Clark Gable's career. The decade culminated with Gable's most noted movie, Gone With the Wind. This book traces Gable's early career, film-by-film, offering background information and a critical assessment of each of his movies released during the 1930s,

The 1930s represented the strongest and most significant decade in Clark Gable's career. Later known as The King of Hollywood, Gable started out as a journeyman actor who quickly rose to the level of star, and then icon. With his ruggedly attractive looks and effortless charisma, Gable was the sort of manly romantic lead that bolstered features alongside the likes of Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, and Spencer Tracy. The decade culminated with Gable's most noted movie, Gone With the Wind. This book traces Gable's early career, film-by-film, offering background information and a critical assessment of each of his movies released during the 1930s,

James L. Neibaur is a film historian and scholar with more than 30 books and hundreds of articles appearing in Cineaste, Classic Images, Film Quarterly, Films in Review, Filmfax, and Encyclopædia Britannica.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deletevi

Introduction

1. The Early Years

2. The Films

The Painted Desert (1931)

The Easiest Way (1931)

Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)

The Finger Points (1931)

The Secret Six (1931)

Laughing Sinners (1931)

A Free Soul (1931)

Night Nurse (1931)

Sporting Blood (1931)

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)

Hell Divers (1931)

Possessed (1931)

Polly of the Circus (1932)

Strange Interlude (1932)

Red Dust (1932)

No Man of Her Own (1932)

The White Sister (1933)

Hold Your Man (1933)

Night Flight (1933)

Dancing Lady (1933)

It Happened One Night (1934)

Men in White (1934)

Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

Chained (1934)

Forsaking All Others (1934)

After Office Hours (1935)

China Seas (1935)

Call of the Wild (1935)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

San Francisco (1936)

Cain and Mabel (1936)

Love on the Run (1936)

Parnell (1937)

Saratoga (1937)

Test Pilot (1938)

Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Idiot’s Delight (1939)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

3. After the 1930s

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2021
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-8044-2 / 1476680442
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8044-6 / 9781476680446
Zustand	Neuware