Clark Gable
Portrait of a Misfit

The seemingly uncensored, no holds barred story of the 'King of Hollywood' during the Golden Era, with Lombard, Tracey, Taylor, Kelly and all; and all a bit of a gossip fest, with uncorroborated quotes and looking for all the drama, even if they have to brush it up (make it up?) to tell their story.......more

This is a Kitty Kelley-type of biography, all sleaze and prurience. What I found just as bothersome, though, was invented dialogue, presented with quotes, as if the author overheard every word of conversation from more than fifty years ago, which of course she didn't. Save your time and read a more......more

My fascination with old Hollywood brought me to this book and honestly, it was better than I thought. He was, according to the author: "Not well endowed, a horrible lover with big ears and chronic bad breath." He was also, the king of Hollywood in the 20's, 30's and 40's under the old studio system......more

Not a very nice book at all. Young man starving to death will go with whatever woman has money and take the mother figures to wife but only at the approval of the movie bosses. Really how many marriages was that only to know he was gay, well what if you didn’t before reading the book? What was the wh......more

Enjoyable but trashy. I've read better written and more balanced accounts of Clark Gable. This is semi fictionalised in places with streams of imagined dialogue between Gable and others. No sources listed at all and some basic facts about other film stars are wrong. It's an easy, enjoyable read but......more