Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979

Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
“Aren’t you gonna congratulate me?”
“What for? “
“Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.”
“Why didn’t you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars.”
“Ooh, I’ll remember that when we need forty cars.”
Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (1934)

“Aren’t you gonna congratulate me?”

“What for? “

“Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.”

“Why didn’t you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars.”

“Ooh, I’ll remember that when we need forty cars.”

Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (1934)

“The only reason they come to see me is that I know life is great - and they know I know it.”
-Clark Gable 

“The only reason they come to see me is that I know life is great - and they know I know it.”

-Clark Gable 

Clark Gable not giving a damnin the final scene of Gone With the Wind (1939, dir. Victor Fleming)

Clark Gable not giving a damnin the final scene of Gone With the Wind (1939, dir. Victor Fleming)


Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)
Photographer: Eve Arnold

Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photographer: Eve Arnold

Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) Photographer: Eve Arnold (via)

Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) Photographer: Eve Arnold (via)

(L to R) Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach on the set of The Misfits (1960, dir. John Huston) (via)
Photographer: Cornell Capa

(L to R) Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach on the set of The Misfits (1960, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photographer: Cornell Capa