"To Be or Not to Be (1942 film) To Be or Not to Be is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges and Sig Ruman. The plot concerns a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops. It was adapted by Lubitsch (uncredited) and Edwin Justus Mayer from the story by Melchior Lengyel. The film was released one month after actress Carole Lombard was killed in an airplane crash. The title is a"
"a ""lengthy illness"" at a sanatorium in Glendale, California. She is interred at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles. Josephine Dillon Josephine Dillon (January 26, 1884 – November 11, 1971) was an American stage and film actress and acting teacher. She is best known as Clark Gable's patron, acting coach and first wife. Born in Denver, Colorado, Dillon was one of six children of Judge Henry Clay Dillon. She was the younger sister of opera singer Enrica Clay Dillon. Dillon's father became a district attorney in Los Angeles while her mother was a prominent socialite. Dillon was educated in the"
"Josephine Dillon Josephine Dillon (January 26, 1884 – November 11, 1971) was an American stage and film actress and acting teacher. She is best known as Clark Gable's patron, acting coach and first wife. Born in Denver, Colorado, Dillon was one of six children of Judge Henry Clay Dillon. She was the younger sister of opera singer Enrica Clay Dillon. Dillon's father became a district attorney in Los Angeles while her mother was a prominent socialite. Dillon was educated in the California public school system and in Europe. She later studied acting at Stanford University. After graduating from Stanford in"
"Allows"" (1955), ""Back Street"" (1961), and ""Madame X"" (1966). In the 1940s, Grey was romantically involved with Clark Gable. Following the death of Carole Lombard, Gable and Grey were often seen together socially, and many expected the two to marry, including Grey herself. In 1949, Gable married Lady Sylvia Ashley, and reportedly, Grey was heartbroken. According to friends, her great love for Gable was the reason she never married. Toward the end of her career, Grey appeared regularly on television programs such as ""General Electric Theater"", ""Bonanza"", and ""The Virginian"". She died in Woodland Hills, California in 2004 at the"
"16, 1942. In 1949, Gable married Sylvia Ashley, a British model and actress previously married to Douglas Fairbanks; the couple divorced in 1952. In 1955, Gable married his fifth wife, Kay Spreckels (née Kathleen Williams), a thrice-married former fashion model and actress who had previously been married to sugar-refining heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. On March 20, 1961, Kay Gable gave birth to Gable's only son, John Clark Gable, at the same hospital in which her husband had died four months earlier. Marilyn Monroe attended John Clark's baptism. John Clark had two children: Kayley Gable (born 1986) and Clark James"
"Grace Kelly Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929September 14, 1982) was an American film actress who became Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956. After embarking on an acting career in 1950, when she was 20, Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions and more than 40 episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. In October 1953, she gained stardom from her performance in director John Ford's film ""Mogambo"" starring Clark Gable and Ava Gardner, which won her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination in"
"as another vehicle for the immensely popular Gable/Turner pairing. Following their success in 1941's ""Honky Tonk"", MGM was looking to capitalize on this new team, hoping to reproduce the box office appeal Gable had when he was paired with actresses Joan Crawford and Jean Harlow in the 1930s. Once filming began, Gable and Turner continued their friendly working relationship. Filming was suspended for a month after Gable's wife, actress Carole Lombard, was killed in a plane crash. Gable was permitted to take leave from filming for a period of bereavement, and the studio almost scrapped the film. It was retitled"
"Carole Lombard Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters, October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American film actress. She was particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. She was the third wife of actor Clark Gable. Lombard was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised in Los Angeles by her single mother. At 12, she was recruited by the film director Allan Dwan and made her screen debut in ""A Perfect Crime"" (1921). Eager"
"over $2 million in war bonds. In flight for only a few minutes and a short 32 miles from the airport, the DC-3 crashed into Potosi Mountain. All aboard the flight were killed. Army officials offered to honor Carole with a complete military funeral but Mr. Gable chose to respect her wishes and opted for a simple, private funeral. After his wife's burial in California, Clark Gable joined the Army Air Corps and flew B-17 missions from England. Carole Lombard was recognized by the Hollywood Victory Committee as the first star to give her life in the war effort. Prior"
"for the Princess Grace Foundation. Grace Kelly Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929September 14, 1982) was an American film actress who became Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956. After embarking on an acting career in 1950, when she was 20, Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions and more than 40 episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. In October 1953, she gained stardom from her performance in director John Ford's film ""Mogambo"" starring Clark Gable and Ava Gardner, which won her a Golden Globe Award and"
"de Alzaga, an Argentinian cattle tycoon, from 1942 to 1943. She was married to Adolph Bernard Spreckels II, a sugar heir, from 1945 until 1952, with whom she had two children (including Bunker Spreckels). Williams was married to actor Clark Gable from 1955 until his death in 1960. The couple had one child. Williams, who had battled heart ailments during her life, left California to receive treatment at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, where she died of heart failure on May 25, 1983. Kay Williams Kathleen Gretchen ""Kay"" Williams (August 7, 1916 – May 25, 1983) was an American actress."
"devout Catholic, considered abortion to be a mortal sin. The family remained silent about the claim until Young and Lewis were both deceased. Judy Lewis Judy Lewis (born Judith Young; November 6, 1935 – November 25, 2011) was an American actress, writer, producer, and therapist. She was the secret biological daughter of actor Clark Gable and actress Loretta Young. Lewis was born on November 6, 1935 in Venice, California. She was conceived while her birth parents, Loretta Young and Clark Gable, were working on the film ""The Call of the Wild"". Gable was married at the time of Lewis's conception,"
"to June 1934, she had a public affair with Spencer Tracy, her co-star in ""Man's Castle"". She married producer Tom Lewis in 1940; they divorced bitterly in the mid-1960s. Lewis died in 1988. They had two sons: Peter Lewis (of the San Francisco rock band Moby Grape) and Christopher Lewis, a film director. Young married the fashion designer Jean Louis in 1993. He died in 1997. Young was godmother to Marlo Thomas (daughter of TV star Danny Thomas). She began smoking at the age of eight and quit in the mid-1980s to gain 10 pounds. Young and Clark Gable were"
"that later metastasized to her lungs, and she died on May 10, 1990 at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. Susan Oliver Susan Oliver (born Charlotte Gercke, February 13, 1932 – May 10, 1990) was an American actress, television director and aviator. Susan Oliver was born the daughter of George Gercke, journalist, and Ruth Hale Oliver, an astrology practitioner, in New York City in 1932. Her father was a political reporter and journalist for the ""New York World"". Her parents divorced when she was still a child. In June 1949, Oliver joined her mother in Southern"
"Since the term was coined, classic Hollywood couples have been regarded as supercouples, including Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. ""People"" magazine stated that Gable and Lombard were ""more than just Golden Age window dressing. The love they shared for six years was that Hollywood rarity: the real thing."" They were titled ""The King of Hollywood and the Queen of Screwball Comedy"", respectively, and eloped during a break in production on Gable's ""Gone with the Wind"" in 1939. Lombard died three years later in a plane crash on her way home from a war bond rally. Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball"
"15 servicemen en route to training in California. Gable flew to the crash site to claim the bodies of his wife, mother-in-law, and Winkler, who had been the best man at Gable and Lombard's wedding. Lombard was declared to be the first war-related American female casualty of World War II, and Gable received a personal note of condolence from President Roosevelt. The Civil Aeronautics Board investigation into the crash concluded that pilot error was its cause. Gable returned to their Encino ranch and carried out her funeral wishes as she had requested in her will. A month later, he returned"
"Judy Lewis Judy Lewis (born Judith Young; November 6, 1935 – November 25, 2011) was an American actress, writer, producer, and therapist. She was the secret biological daughter of actor Clark Gable and actress Loretta Young. Lewis was born on November 6, 1935 in Venice, California. She was conceived while her birth parents, Loretta Young and Clark Gable, were working on the film ""The Call of the Wild"". Gable was married at the time of Lewis's conception, and Young concealed her pregnancy to avoid scandal. Weeks after her birth, Lewis was placed in an orphanage. Lewis would spend the next"
"days after the proposal, however, Turing told Clarke about his homosexuality and his concern about their marriage. Clarke and Turing remained engaged. In the late summer of 1941, their engagement ended because Turing continued to believe their marriage would be a failure. Later, in 1947 Clarke met Lieutenant Colonel John Kenneth Ronald Murray, a retired army officer who had served in India. Clarke and Murray were married on July 26, 1952 in the Chichester Cathedral. On 4 September 1996, Clarke died at her home in Headington. Clarke was portrayed by Keira Knightley in the film ""The Imitation Game"" (2014), opposite"
"Camille Cosby Camille Olivia Cosby (née Hanks; born March 20, 1944) is an American television producer, author, philanthropist, and the wife of comedian Bill Cosby. The character of Clair Huxtable from ""The Cosby Show"" was based on her. Camille was born Camille Olivia Hanks on March 20, 1944, in Washington D.C., to Guy A. Hanks Sr. and Catherine C. Hanks. She grew up in Norbeck, Maryland, just outside Washington. She is the oldest of four children and is a distant cousin of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of United States President Abraham Lincoln. Through Lincoln, she is a distant cousin of"
"to the studio to work with Lana Turner in the movie ""Somewhere I'll Find You"". Having lost 20 pounds since the tragedy, Gable evidently was emotionally and physically devastated by it, but Turner stated that Gable remained a professional for the duration of filming. He acted in 27 more films, and remarried twice more. ""But he was never the same"", said Esther Williams. ""He had been devastated by Carole's death."" For details of Gable's combat missions, see RAF Polebrook In 1942, following Lombard's death, Gable joined the U.S. Army Air Forces. Lombard had suggested that Gable enlist as part of"
"was her biological father. Gable never publicly acknowledged the truth about his daughter, but most in Hollywood and some in the general public believed Gable was Lewis's father because of their strong resemblance and the timing of her birth. Five years after Gable's death, when confronted by Lewis, Loretta Young confirmed that she was Lewis's biological mother and that Gable was her father. Young died of ovarian cancer on August 12, 2000; her autobiography, published posthumously, confirmed that Gable was indeed Lewis's father. Judy Lewis died of cancer at age 76 on November 25, 2011. In 2015, Young's son, Christopher"
"a gangster who shoved the character played by Norma Shearer; Gable never played a supporting role again. ""The Hollywood Reporter"" wrote ""A star in the making has been made, one that, to our reckoning, will outdraw every other star... Never have we seen audiences work themselves into such enthusiasm as when Clark Gable walks on the screen."" He followed that with ""Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)"" (1931) with Greta Garbo, and ""Possessed"" (1931), in which Crawford (then married to Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and he steamed up the screen. Adela Rogers St. Johns later dubbed Gable and Crawford's real-life relationship"
"Rosina Galli (actress) Rosina Galli (1899 – June 3, 1950) was an Italian film actress in Hollywood. Rosina Galli was an Italian/American character actress who worked in Hollywood between the mid-1930s and the mid-1940s, where she performed in about 40 films. She appeared with Clark Gable in ""They Met in Bombay"" (1941) and played Christine's maid in ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1943). The actress also portrayed the friendly wife of J. Carrol Naish in ""Star in the Night"" (1945), an Academy-Award-winning short film by Don Siegel. Through her accent she frequently played motherly characters of Italian or Spanish descent,"
"of 95. Lydia Clarke Lydia Marie Clarke (April 14, 1923 – September 3, 2018) was an American actress and photographer, and the wife of Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston. Clarke was born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. She married Charlton Heston on March 17, 1944, and their marriage lasted for 64 years until his death on April 5, 2008. They had two children: Fraser Clarke Heston and Holly Heston Rochell. She was a breast cancer survivor and had undergone a mastectomy. Clarke died from complications due to pneumonia on September 3, 2018, at UCLA Medical Center, in Santa Monica, California, at"
"""Dracula"", ""Giselle"", and ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". Many of the projects he created later were performed by other dance companies, including the Atlanta Ballet and the Royal New Zealand Ballet. He played Arthur Ainsley in the 1984 TV British miniseries ""A Woman of Substance"". In 1996 Gable was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to British dance. The following year he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Bradford. Gable was married to dancer Carole Needham. He died from cancer near Halifax, Yorkshire, at the age"
"actor Ricardo Montalbán for sixty-three years until her death in 2007. She was also the half-sister of John Clark Gable (Clark Gable's son with his fifth wife, Kay Williams), Christopher Lewis and Peter Lewis (Loretta's biological sons). Musician David Lindley is her cousin. Lewis was married for several years to Joseph Tinney. They had one daughter, Maria, and two grandsons. They divorced in the late 1960s. After Lewis became engaged to Tinney at age twenty-three, he told her it was common knowledge that Gable was her biological father; Lewis was stunned. After Gable's death, Lewis, at age 31, finally confronted"
"with Clark Gable after his return from war service in ""Adventure"" (1945). The film was advertised with the catch-phrase ""Gable's back, and Garson's got him!"". Gable argued for ""He put the Arson in Garson""; she countered with ""She put the Able in Gable!""; thereafter, the safer catchphrase was selected. Garson's popularity declined somewhat in the late 1940s, but she remained a prominent film star until the mid-1950s. In 1951, she became a naturalised citizen of the United States. She made only a few films after her MGM contract expired in 1954. In 1958, she received a warm reception on Broadway"
"1949, Gable married Sylvia Ashley, a British model and actress previously married to Douglas Fairbanks. The relationship was profoundly unsuccessful; they divorced in 1952. Soon followed ""Never Let Me Go"" (1953), opposite Gene Tierney. Tierney was a favorite of Gable and he was very disappointed when she was replaced in ""Mogambo"" (because of her mental health problems) by Grace Kelly. ""Mogambo"" (1953), directed by John Ford, was a somewhat sanitized remake of Gable's earlier pre-Code film ""Red Dust"", with Jean Harlow and Mary Astor, which had been an even greater success. Ava Gardner was well received in Harlow's leading lady"
"Lydia Clarke Lydia Marie Clarke (April 14, 1923 – September 3, 2018) was an American actress and photographer, and the wife of Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston. Clarke was born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. She married Charlton Heston on March 17, 1944, and their marriage lasted for 64 years until his death on April 5, 2008. They had two children: Fraser Clarke Heston and Holly Heston Rochell. She was a breast cancer survivor and had undergone a mastectomy. Clarke died from complications due to pneumonia on September 3, 2018, at UCLA Medical Center, in Santa Monica, California, at the age"
"her money to avoid foreclosure. After Gable's death in November 1960, the press reported that his will stipulated that the remainder of Dillon's mortgage be paid in full by his estate. Dillon continued working as an acting teacher until poor health forced her to retire in the mid-1960s. In the years following Gable's death, several biographies of the actor were published that mentioned his marriage to Dillon. She later reported that she regularly received abusive and insulting letters and telephone calls from Gable fans despite the fact that she never publicly disparaged him. On November 11, 1971, she died after"
"The book describes in detail the training that she put Gable through over a six and a half year period. Upon returning to California, Dillon continued teaching acting. Her students included Bruce Cabot, Gary Cooper, Donna Reed, Rita Hayworth and Linda Darnell. In 1944, she made her only two film appearances in bit roles in ""The Lady and the Monster"" and ""Men on Her Mind"". In the years following their divorce, Clark Gable became one of the most popular leading men of the era and would win an Academy Award in 1934. He also went on to marry four more"
"Wife vs. Secretary Wife vs. Secretary (or ""Wife versus Secretary"") is a 1936 comedy drama directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown, and starring Clark Gable as a successful businessman, Jean Harlow as his secretary, and Myrna Loy as his wife, supported by James Stewart, in one of his first memorable roles, as the secretary's suitor. The film was the fifth of six collaborations between Gable and Harlow and the fourth of seven between Gable and Loy. May Robson portrays Gable's character's meddling mother. The story was based on the short story of the same name by Faith Baldwin published in"
"the Art Association of Jackson Hole, and organized events and art fairs there. Barbara Trentham died on August 2, 2013 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, aged 68, from complications from leukemia. Barbara Trentham Barbara Trentham (August 27, 1944 – August 2, 2013) was an American actress, who appeared in the 1975 film ""Rollerball"". Trentham was also the second wife of John Cleese (1981–90). She was born in 1944 in Brooklyn and moved with her parents as a child to Weston, Connecticut and graduated from Staples High School in Westport in 1962. She then attended the Mount Holyoke College in"