Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a few years of working odd jobs and hanging around performers as much as possible, Gable joined a traveling theater group.

Studio publicists photographed Clark Gable on a tractor at his Encino ranch while Carole Lombard wrote the check; he also milked a cow for reporters on hand.

In 1901, a star was born. Clark Gable, the Gone With the Wind actor who came to be nicknamed the King of Hollywood, had humble beginnings. He was the son of an Ohio oil driller and a high school ...