"My father could never get it through his head that acting was honorable work for a man. Even when I was making $7,500 a week, he stubbornly kept saying, "What kind of a job is that for a fellow six feet tall, weighs 195 pounds?""
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Speaking with author Bill Davidson (c. October 1960), as cited in Davidson's The Real and the Unreal (1961), p. 104
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Clark Gable
William Clark Gable (1 February 1901 – 16 November 1960) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. His best remembered role was in Gone with the Wind (1939) with Vivien Leigh. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 7.
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