"Howard and I played a hunch. We figured that the era of the poetic types was over and that with the newspaper headlines about Capone and the mobs and the G-men—all symbols of violence—the public would be more interested in tough guys who wooed their women with their fists and their cynicism rather than aesthetics. I don't want to take anything away from Clark, but—as he himself says—it was just his luck that he happened to be in the right place at the right time when this decision was made. It could have been any one of a dozen other actors, all of whom have long ago faded into obscurity."
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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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