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Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm) was a legendary actress and singer from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of her movies include: The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Star Is Born (in her nominated for Best Actress Academy Award role), the movies she did with Mickey Rooney, Judgment At Nuremberg (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role), and many more! AND Clark Gable was born William Clark Gable in Cadiz, Ohio in 1901. His mom died when he was an infant, and his dad remarried and his step-mother encouraged him to pursue singing, playing music, and acting. At 21, he came into an inheritance and began trying to make a living acting. He moved to Oregon, where he met Josephine Dillon, a stage manager 17 years older than he was. She became his personal "coach", teaching him acting, and also paying to have his teeth fixed and to dress better. In 1924 they moved to Hollywood and were married. But Gable had very limited success in getting parts until he moved to New York. After he played a killer in The Last Mile on Broadway, he was signed by MGM, in 1930 and he also divorced his wife and immediately married again. In 1931, Gable was the lead "heavy" in in The Painted Desert, a cowboy movie starring William Boyd, and he also appeared in 12 other MGM movies that year! Most were pretty minor roles, but Joan Crawford had spotted him and asked for him to play a key role in Dance, Fools, Dance, and they ended up making a total of eight films together, and they had an on-again off-again affair for many years, including when one or both were married! Gable was the top male star of the 1930s, and his good friend Spencer Tracy dubbed him the King of Hollywood, and the nickname stuck. He co-starred opposite every top female MGM star, most notably Crawford and Jean Harlow. In 1934 MGM "loaned" Gable to Columbia to make It Happened One Night, and he won the Best Actor Oscar. In 1939 he was loaned to David Selznick to make Gone With The Wind (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), so ironically, even though Gable is strongly identified with MGM, his two greatest hits were made for other studios (although MGM did distribute Gone With the Wind). In 1935 Gable made Mutiny On The Bounty (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film). He also made The Call of the Wild with Loretta Young, and they had an affair, which resulted in a baby, and since that could have meant the end of both their careers, Young took a year off and pretended to adopt her own baby! In 1939 Gable divorced again and immediately married again, this time to film star Carole Lombard. By all accounts they were very happy together, but in 1942, Lombard was killed in a plane crash while selling war bonds, and Gable was devastated, and joined the Army Air Force at the age of 41. There he made recruiting films, but also went on five combat missions. After the war, Gable married two more times, in 1949, and in 1955. His post-War movies are mostly not very good, in part because Gable insisted on always playing a romantic lead, often with a much younger leading lady. In 1961 he was paired with Marilyn Monroe (and Montgomery Clift) in The Misfits, and that proved to be both Gable and Monroe's final movie. Gable had been a heavy smoker and drinker all his life, and he wanted to look his best opposite Marilyn, and he went on a crash diet, and soon after the movie was finished he had a heart attack. Four months after his death, his wife gave birth to their son, John Clark Gable. If you want to understand why Gable was such an incredibly popular male star (maybe the greatest of all time) I suggest you begin with It Happened One Night. Gable is wonderful, as is the entire movie! AND Robert Taylor was a handsome leading man from the 1930s to the 1960s, who barely seemed to age! Some of his movies include: Waterloo Bridge, Camille, Westward the Women, Three Comrades, and Quo Vadis

Important Added Info: Note that this wonderful still shows 13 year-old Judy Garland laughing with Robert Taylor as 16 year-old Betty Jaynes is laughing with Clark Gable in the MGM cafe where they are eating together! What is especially interesting is that later, Judy Garland would sing the love song "Dear Mr. Gable You Made Me Love You" to a picture of Clark Gable, and yet here, it appears she prefers Robert Taylor! The photo contains a still code in the lower right corner and one above it that was etched out of the negative. We believe this is surely because the still was first created in 1935 (when those young stars were 13 and 16) and that it was used again in 1937 to promote another movie (likely one with Judy Garland) and that explains why the image had one still code that was changed to another. It originally had a snipe glued to the back, and it has a 1937 date stamp on the back, and was surely used in a magazine that year. What a wonderful photo! Also note that this still measures 7 3/4" x 10" [20 x 25 cm], but it has not been trimmed.

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