Books like Clark Gable by Rene Jordan

A biography presented in large type, profiling notable motion picture actors and actresses.

Gable - the greatest screen lover of them all - Lombard - a liberated woman far ahead of her time - Powell - the epitome of screen sophistication - Harlow - the sexual bombshell who exploded into fame in films........These four came together in a very adult love story that never would have gotten past the censors of their day. This is how Hollywood really was, in the time of its most outrageous splendor. These are the stars as they really were, in all their larger than life flamboyance and their very human emotions.

"There really was a Hollywood, a place of fashionable men and gorgeous women and the all-powerful studio system that allowed them to defy the conventions that governed the rest of the country. Clark Gable arrived there after a rough-and-tumble youth, and his breezy, big- boned, everyman persona quickly made him the town's "King." He was a gambler among gamblers, a heavy drinker in the days when everyone drank seemingly all the time, and a lover to legions of the most attractive women in the most glamorous business in the world.". "In this biography, Warren G. Harris gives us a portrait of one of the most memorable actors in the history of motion pictures, as well as a sure sense of the milieu and the times of mid-century Hollywood. More than anything else, one is struck by the romance of the era - the glamour and the excess, the playfulness and the lust. The people who were Gable's intimates are legends in their own right: Loretta Young, Marion Davies, David O. Selznick, Jean Harlow, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, Grace Kelly, and the list goes on and on." "Clark Gable reveals newly uncovered information about Gables's illegitimate daughter, his relationship with Joan Crawford, and his great love for Carole Lombard, his third wife."--BOOK JACKET.

When Hollywood's biggest stars converge for the premiere of *Gone With the Wind*, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard must investigate their missing protégée, Lydia Austin, turning from celebrated actors to amateur sleuths amid rising kidnappings.