Judy Garland's Clark Gable Fixation

Actors on Actors



You know what's odd? Though Judy Garland excels at dreamy sadness, I always end up smiling when I listen to her sing. As soon as she tears up onscreen I feel way better; she alchemizes sadness and turns it towards the bittersweet at the very least. I love her two movie shout-outs here in Love Finds Andy Hardy: one is to Greta Garbo but she also has to reference her main man.

I'm allowed to go to picture shows. That is if Nurse is feeling able. But we only go to Mickey Mouse, I'm not allowed Clark Gable!

Oh Judy. They'd let you go to Clark Gable pictures if you hadn't already gotten so stalkerish just one summer earlier in The Broadway Melody of 1938.



All of this begs the following question:
Who made you love them when you were only 15?
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Breakfast with... Claudette and Clark

Rise and shine, Claudette!


Clark's making breakfast. He's really a catch even if you haven't quite figured it out yet. In your defense he is gruff, middle class, conceited and terribly bossy. But he's making breakfast. A man who cooks? C'mon girl. Tear down those walls of Jericho.

Claudette: Scrambled eggs!
Clark: Egg. Single. One Egg. One donut. Black coffee. That's your ration until lunch. Any complaints?
Claudette: No, no complaints.
Clark: I'd have some cream for your coffee but it'd meant buying a whole pint.

Would you eat what Clark Gable served up... even without a pint of cream? (I love donuts and eggs but... no cream?)
Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night