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Clark Gable

MGM’s swaggering leading man, equally at home in romantic comedy, adventure, and epic melodrama.

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Gable became a template for the relaxed, masculine movie star whose personality could bridge prestige drama and mass entertainment.

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It Happened One NightGone with the WindSan Francisco

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Films in the collection

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1934 · Romantic comedy

It Happened One Night

A runaway heiress and a reporter share a road trip in the fast, intimate comedy that became a genre template.

1935 · Adventure drama

Mutiny on the Bounty

A lavish seafaring drama about authority, rebellion, and the infamous voyage of the Bounty.

1936 · Drama

San Francisco

Gable headlines a romantic disaster drama culminating in MGM’s recreation of the 1906 earthquake.

1939 · Epic drama

Gone with the Wind

A technically monumental Civil War-era epic whose enduring popularity is inseparable from criticism of its romanticized portrayal of slavery and the Confederacy.