Clark Gable Movie Rankings
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Clark Gable scores a combined 3.8746 out of 4 stars for Gone with the Wind
3.8746
On the eve of the American Civil War, Scarlett O'Hara meets Rhett Butler. Amongst a war torn Atlanta, Scarlett must save her family's burning plantation and accept the possibility of never seeing Rhett again. ... more about Gone with the Wind
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $8.98 
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Clark Gable scores a combined 3.6852 out of 4 stars for Mutiny on the Bounty
3.6852
Aboard the HMS Bounty a crew and its captain set sail for Tahiti, but when the crew gets fed up with the callous treatment of Capt. William Bligh (Charles Laughton), first mate Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) leads them to mutiny. ... more about Mutiny on the Bounty
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $5.56 
(5 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 3.3001 out of 4 stars for It Happened One Night
3.3001
Socialite Ellie Andrews has just been kidnapped by her father, who opposes her marriage. When she escapes, to return to her husband, she meets a journalist expecting to get a great story. Unsure of the outside world Ellie must rely on his unwanted help. ... more about It Happened One Night
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $12.35 
(5 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 3.0980 out of 4 stars for China Seas
3.0980
Dynamic Alan Gaskell captains a ship bound from Hong Kong to Singapore. Gaskell tries to turn over a new leaf from his hard-drinking lifestyle after becoming attached to a refined high class English lady, Sybil Barclay. ... more about China Seas
DVD from $4.37 
(6 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.9575 out of 4 stars for Boom Town
2.9575
McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsey comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties. ... more about Boom Town
DVD from $2.84 
(7 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.8556 out of 4 stars for Manhattan Melodrama
2.8556
Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy star in this aptly titled film about best friends who end up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman. ... more about Manhattan Melodrama
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.7572 out of 4 stars for It Started in Naples
2.7572
The film opens with Mike Hamilton (Gable) arriving in Naples to settle the affairs of his recently deceased brother, who left Philadelphia 10 years earlier for a beer and never came back. ... more about It Started in Naples
DVD from $5.97 
(3 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.7275 out of 4 stars for Mogambo
2.7275
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. ... more about Mogambo
DVD from $4.60 
(7 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.7257 out of 4 stars for Misfits
2.7257
Roslyn divorces Ray in Reno and then meets widower Guido. He likes her but introduces her to cowboy Gay, and those two fall in love. When she learns that Gay, Guido and Perce are going to turn wild horses ("misfits") into dog food, she protests. ... more about Misfits
DVD from $2.26 
(3 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.6985 out of 4 stars for After Office Hours
2.6985
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to solve the murder of one of her socialite acquaintences. ... more about After Office Hours
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.6871 out of 4 stars for Love on the Run
2.6871
In the company of reporter Michael Anthony, American heiress Sally Parker flees her planned wedding to Prince Igor; Sally is unaware of Mike's detestable occupation. The two steal an airplane that is part of a spy plot and discover secret plans. ... more about Love on the Run
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.6726 out of 4 stars for San Francisco
2.6726
Mary Blake arrives at Blackie Norton's Paradise gambling hall and beer garden looking for work as a singer. Blackie embarrasses her by asking to see her legs, but does hire her. She faints from hunger. ... more about San Francisco
DVD from $5.79 
(6 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.6255 out of 4 stars for Red Dust
2.6255
Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to evade the police by a stay upcountry. ... more about Red Dust
DVD from $25.55 
(4 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.6209 out of 4 stars for Secret Six
2.6209
Bootlegger/cafe owner Ralph Bellamy recruits crude working man Wallace Beery to join his gang which is masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Lewis Stone. ... more about Secret Six
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.6163 out of 4 stars for Laughing Sinners
2.6163
Cafe entertainer Ivy Stevens falls for sleazy salesman Howard Palmer and jumps from a bridge when he dumps her. Saved by Salvation Army officer Carl, Ivy reforms and joins the Army. When she runs into Palmer she falls for him all over again. ... more about Laughing Sinners
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.6140 out of 4 stars for Wife vs. Secretary
2.6140
Linda Stanhope isn't jealous of beautiful Whitey Wilson, secretary to her magazine publisher husband Van ... until his mother plants the seed of doubt. ... more about Wife vs. Secretary
DVD from $3.05 
(5 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.5752 out of 4 stars for Parnell
2.5752
The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. ... more about Parnell
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.5615 out of 4 stars for Saratoga
2.5615
Carol Clayton is the daughter of a horse breeder at Saratoga. Though engaged to wealthy Hartley Madison, and disgusted by bookie Duke Bradley, her father owes Bradley a lot of money and Bradley takes a shine to her. ... more about Saratoga
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.5524 out of 4 stars for Strange Cargo
2.5524
Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. ... more about Strange Cargo
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.5433 out of 4 stars for Strange Interlude
2.5433
The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak - and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Gordon Shaw was a flyer who was shot down and killed during WWI. ... more about Strange Interlude
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.5341 out of 4 stars for Somewhere I'll Find You
2.5341
Two brothers, both war correspondents, vie for the affection of the same girl at the beginning of World War II, and later find her doing orphan work in China. ... more about Somewhere I'll Find You
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.5296 out of 4 stars for Sporting Blood
2.5296
Gambler Rid Riddell wins a racehorse, Tommy Boy, on a bet. Rid consistently wins with the horse in both honestly and dishonestly run races. But before long, Tommy Boy wins a race he wasn't supposed to, and the mob is after Rid. ... more about Sporting Blood
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.5204 out of 4 stars for Men in White
2.5204
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important that attending a cocktail party. ... more about Men in White
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.5113 out of 4 stars for Too Hot to Handle
2.5113
Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. At first she doesn't trust him, but by a trick he manages to get her hired as his assistant. ... more about Too Hot to Handle
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.4930 out of 4 stars for Call of the Wild
2.4930
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. ... more about Call of the Wild
DVD from $26.39 
(3 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.4748 out of 4 stars for Painted Desert
2.4748
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. ... more about Painted Desert
DVD from $1.09 
(3 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.4391 out of 4 stars for Teacher's Pet
2.4391
James Gannon, the hardboiled city editor of a newspaper, believes that the only way to learn the business is by way of the School of Hard Knocks, and has a very low regard for college-taught journalism, so he's not pleased when his managing editor orders ... more about Teacher's Pet
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $3.90 
(5 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.4299 out of 4 stars for Band of Angels
2.4299
In an attempt to carry on in his great Rhett Butler tradition, Gone With The Wind star Clark Gable once again flexes his muscular charms in another Civil War-era movie about the torrid romance between a plantation owner and a half-caste beauty. ... more about Band of Angels
DVD from $5.79 
(6 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.4200 out of 4 stars for Polly of the Circus
2.4200
When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. ... more about Polly of the Circus
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.4154 out of 4 stars for Comrade X
2.4154
McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson, American reporter in Moscow, smuggles out uncensored news under the alias "Comrade X," but hotel valet Vanya discovers his secret. ... more about Comrade X
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.4017 out of 4 stars for They Met in Bombay
2.4017
The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart when the thief unintentionally becomes a hero while posing as a British officer. ... more about They Met in Bombay
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.3774 out of 4 stars for Command Decision
2.3774
General Dennis of the US Force in England in World War II finds that he must order his planes deeper and deeper into Germany to prevent the production of military jet planes that will turn the tide of battle to the Germans. ... more about Command Decision
Not Available on DVD
33
Clark Gable scores a combined 2.3058 out of 4 stars for Cain and Mabel
2.3058
The managers of heavyweight champion Larry Cain and Broadway musical star Mabel O'Dare scheme up a romance to give the celebrities more glamour. But the two don't hit it off, having started on the wrong foot. ... more about Cain and Mabel
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.3013 out of 4 stars for Easiest Way
2.3013
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. ... more about Easiest Way
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.2997 out of 4 stars for Test Pilot
2.2997
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe. ... more about Test Pilot
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.1978 out of 4 stars for Dance
2.1978
After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie goes to work as a cub reporter. Her brother Rodney is the wheel man in a gangland massacre. Bert, a reporter on Bonnie's paper, is murdered while investigating. ... more about Dance
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.1734 out of 4 stars for Chained
2.1734
A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men. ... more about Chained
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.1552 out of 4 stars for Night Nurse
2.1552
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, but something much more sinister is going on. ... more about Night Nurse
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.1460 out of 4 stars for Possessed
2.1460
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. ... more about Possessed
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.1415 out of 4 stars for No Man of Her Own
2.1415
Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. The two get married after Lombard wins a coin flip and they move back to the city. ... more about No Man of Her Own
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.0912 out of 4 stars for Susan Lenox
2.0912
Susan, an orphan, lives the life of Cinderella with rustic relatives. She escapes one stormy night when the fiance her relatives chose tries to force his attentions. ... more about Susan Lenox
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Clark Gable scores a combined 2.0547 out of 4 stars for Dancing Lady
2.0547
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. ... more about Dancing Lady
DVD from $5.49 
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.8538 out of 4 stars for Any Number Can Play
1.8538
Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son. ... more about Any Number Can Play
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.8089 out of 4 stars for King and Four Queens
1.8089
Smooth cowboy Dan Kehoe arrives at a ranch run by an old widow and her four daughters-in-law. He's been tipped off that the proceeds of a gold robbery are hidden on the ranch and only one of the women knows where. ... more about King and Four Queens
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.7533 out of 4 stars for Free Soul
1.7533
Stephen Ashe, an upper class alcoholic defense attourney, successfully defends local mobster Ace Wilfong in a murder case. ... more about Free Soul
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.7351 out of 4 stars for Adventure
1.7351
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.7168 out of 4 stars for Christmas Party
1.7168
'Jackie Cooper' (qv)'s mother agrees to host a Christmas party for his football team. Things soon get out of hand, and the number of children gets too large for his house. He pleads with 'Norma Shearer' (qv) to ask 'Louis B. ... more about Christmas Party
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.6857 out of 4 stars for Tall Men
1.6857
Two brothers, Ben and Clint, join a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. While heading for Texas they save Nella from the Indians, and she decides to ride with them. ... more about Tall Men
DVD from $22.26 
(3 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.6811 out of 4 stars for Key to the City
1.6811
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. ... more about Key to the City
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.5981 out of 4 stars for Honky Tonk
1.5981
When gambler Candy Johnson comes to the small-town Yellow Creek he has set his mind on the narrow path to live an honest life. He falls in love with young Elizabeth Cotton and with the money he won at gambling he opens up a saloon. ... more about Honky Tonk
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.5981 out of 4 stars for Hucksters
1.5981
Victor Norman is just out of the Service and is looking for a job in advertizing. By playing hard to get, he figures that he can get a good job and a large salary. ... more about Hucksters
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.4985 out of 4 stars for Across the Wide Missouri
1.4985
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. ... more about Across the Wide Missouri
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Clark Gable scores a combined 1.4071 out of 4 stars for Run Silent Run Deep
1.4071
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. ... more about Run Silent Run Deep
DVD from $3.97 
(5 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Betrayed
0.0001
Carla Van Oven becomes an allied spy in Holland during WW2, although she is suspected of having cooperated with and taken help from the Nazis. ... more about Betrayed
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for But Not for Me
0.0001
Russ Ward, after 30 years of producing Broadway plays, is ready to quit. His secretary, Ellie Brown, on being given notice, tells him she loves him. Russ proceeds to turn this into a hit play starring Ellie and romance her in a May-December affair. ... more about But Not for Me
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Combat America
0.0001
A documentary recounting the experiences of the 351st Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces, based in England during the Second World War . The group's air and ground crews are followed through a number of bombing missions over Hitler's Germany. ... more about Combat America
DVD from $1.82 
(0 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Finger Points
0.0001
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital. ... more about Finger Points
Not Available on DVD
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Forsaking All Others
0.0001
Dyl leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dyl, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her. ... more about Forsaking All Others
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hell Divers
0.0001
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Hobbies
0.0001
Two out-of-towners take an automobile tour of Hollywood to see the private lives of some celebrities. ... more about Hollywood Hobbies
DVD from $2.84 
(7 sellers)
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Homecoming
0.0001
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. ... more about Homecoming
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Lone Star
0.0001
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story by Borden Chase about cattle baron Devereaux Burke (Gable), who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson (scene-stealing Barrymore) to dissuade Sam Houston (Moroni Olsen) from establishing Texas as a ... more about Lone Star
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Never Let Me Go
0.0001
Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable) is an American news writer stationed in Moscow since the war; while there he falls for a Russian ballet dancer, Marva Lamarkins (Gene Tierney), who, he finds out, learned English because she fell in love with him. ... more about Never Let Me Go
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Night Flight
0.0001
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for North Star
0.0001
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for To Please a Lady
0.0001
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a hard-as-nails newspaper/radio columnist who will ruin the career of anyone she deems worthy of it. ... more about To Please a Lady
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for White Man
0.0001
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Clark Gable scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for You Can't Fool a Camera
0.0001
This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are times when all four of the animal's feet are off the ground. ... more about You Can't Fool a Camera
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Clark Gable
Birthdate:
February 1, 1901
Death date:
November 16, 1960

Clark Gable

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1920s
2
No Reviews
1930s
45
total ranking of 4.0000  4.0000
1940s
14
total ranking of 2.5126  2.5126
1950s
14
total ranking of 2.2371  2.2371
1960s
2
total ranking of 2.1356  2.1356
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.9578
Clark Gable is ranked overall as 2.9578 of of 4 stars
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