Clark Gable News

Centreville Settlement is hosting 'Second Saturdays' Olde Fashioned Movie Nights at the Saxon Homestead Heritage Center, 15621 S. Union Road, Cleveland, beginning July 11.

Crime-film maestro Michael Mann goes back to the '30s for his latest film, the characteristically hypnotic and moody Public Enemies .

Photo 1: One the set of Cecil B. DeMille's Male & Female, 1919 Photo 2: Set for the movie Feet of Clay at the Hotel St.

Applause by David A. Rosenberg It was Hollywood's golden year, 1939, the year Garbo laughed; Clark Gable said the then-shocking, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"; Ingrid Bergman and Greer Garson became stars in their first American films; Hattie McDaniel was not only the first African-American to win an Oscar , she was the first ever to sit ...

"Frankly, my dear, 1939 was a very good year." Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh go for the love in "Gone with the Wind." Saluting 1939: All this month, TCM will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of 1939 with "39 From 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year." The series includes a documentary and classic films from several genres.

Art imitates life in "Public Enemies" when Johnny Depp, as John Dillinger, watches Clark Gable play a doomed gangster in "Manhattan Melodrama," just before being gunned down himself outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre.

If you can watch this face of "gangster-glamour" for almost two and a half hours, you'll probably enjoy Public Enemies.

Not taking to the open road this Fourth of July? The road-trip movie genre has endless offerings.

This film has finally made me see the light. From now on, I'm giving up on all this honest, working-for-a-living stuff, because it's obvious a life of crime is where it's at.

Wesleyan University is hosting a monthlong weekly series, " Frank Capra Directs Hollywood's Leading Men." All the screenings will be on Tuesday nights at 7:30 in the Center for Film Studies, 301 Washington Terr., Middletown .

Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 3:50 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 3:50 p.m. Near the end of Michael Mann's new gangster drama, "Public Enemies," John Dillinger sits down in a movie theater to watch the Clark Gable/Myrna Loy gangster picture, "Manhattan Melodrama." Want to see? * 'Public Enemies,' directed by Michael Mann, ...

On July 1, like a burst of Tommy-gun fire, Michael Mann's Public Enemies will blast its way into movie theatres.

THERE are any number of theories why 1939, by common consent, is considered the greatest year in Hollywood's history - with its 70th anniversary is being celebrated by a 39-film retrospective beginning Tuesday on TCM.

Introducing our special issue, John Patterson meets Public Enemies director Michael Mann and hears where John Dillinger's 'white-hot trajectory' fits into his macho career Michael Mann is talking about the last two hours of John Dillinger's life, as the infamous and charismatic midwestern bank-robber sat in the Biograph movie theatre in Chicago, ...

MOGAMBO is a rip-roaring African adventure from MGM, in the tradition of that studio's KING SOLOMON'S MINES .

Myrna Loy starts out as Clark Gable's mistress, ends up as William Powell's wife.

WOMEN writers seem to have a special knack of penning epic romantic novels packed with passion and incident, that instantly capture the reading public's interest.

Contestants compete for the best a oeGone with the Winda costume in a special event at the museum.

'It Happened One Night' was supposed to be Gable's punishment. But this little screwball comedy would miraculously change the careers of everyone involved including Clark Gable.

For sale at Sunday's classic car auction are Clark Gable's 1938 Packard, above, and the Rolls-Royce, below, seen in The Great Gatsby.