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Clark Gable’s Milestones
| 1901 | Mother died when he was nine months old; sent to live with maternal grandparents |
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| 1903 | Father and stepmother reclaimed him |
| 1910 | Family settles in Hopedale, Ohio |
| 1915 | Amateur acting debut in school play |
| 1917 | Moved to Ravenna with father and stepmother; eventually returned to Hopedale |
| 1919 | Settled in Akron and worked in a tire factory |
| 1921 | After stepmother's death, moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma with his father |
| 1922 | Joined Astoria Players Stock Company |
| 1924 | Became a member of Josephine Dillon's Stock Company |
| 1924 | First film as actor, a bit part in "Forbidden Paradise" |
| 1924 | Moved to Hollywood |
| 1925 | Can be spotted as an extra in Erich von Stroheim's "The Merry Widow" |
| 1928 | Broadway debut, "Machinal" |
| 1930 | Signed contract with MGM |
| 1931 | Attracted attention when he pushed reigning screen queen Norma Shearer around (in the role of her brutish gangster lover) in "A Free Soul"; subsequent leading role opposite other MGM divas Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford confirmed his star status |
| 1931 | First sound film as actor in "The Painted Desert" |
| 1932 | Starred in "Red Dust" |
| 1934 | Won Best Actor Oscar for comic role of a newspaperman chasing a runaway heiress in "It Happened One Night" |
| 1935 | Picked up second Academy Award nomination for performance as Fletcher Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty" |
| 1937 | Made rare box-office flop, "Parnell", a biopic about the Irish statesman |
| 1937 | Sued by a woman from England who claimed that he was the father of her 13 year-old child; Gable was able to prove that he was in Oregon in 1923 when the child was conceived |
| 1939 | Starred in his best-remembered film, "Gone With the Wind", as Rhett Butler; received third Oscar nomination |
| 1942 | Enlisted in Army Air Corps as private; last film for three years, "Somewhere I'll Find You" |
| 1944 | Awarded Air Medal |
| 1944 | Discharged as Major |
| 1945 | Made first film after returning from war service, "Adventure" |
| 1953 | Starred in "Mogambo", playing the leading role in the remake of the 1932 film "Red Dust" in which he also starred |
| 1954 | Parted company with MGM |
| 1956 | Formed Russ-Field-Gabco production company (with Jane Russell and her husband Bob Waterfield) |
| 1961 | Starred in last film, "The Misfits" |
| 1976 | Portrayed in the feature biopic "Gable and Lombard" by James Brolin (Jill Clayburgh played Carole Lombard) |
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