Mr. X Blind Item #8 - Old Hollywood
What A++ list actor and Oscar winner/nominee was at one point dating the actress ex-wife of his longtime friend, another A++ list actor and Oscar winner/nominee a few years after the ex-wife and actor #2 divorced? Her ex husband shrugged it off, always saying that she always had a major crush his friend anyway. The affair lasted throughout the actress' next two marriages until actor #1 finally broke it off and married another woman. Let's just say the actress didn't take it so well.
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Clark Gable/Spencer tracey
Clarke Gable Grace Kelly
and Carol Lombard
Tracy was never married to Lombard, and Lombard and Gable were never divorced.
Kelley was never divorced, either. From anyone.
I feel like William Powell has to be in here somewhere...
@Topper. She did divorce Powell(which makes sense, but Powell and Tracey were not BFs~Gable and Tracey were, so i think Enty effed up that part of their history maybe?
Carole Lombard died in a plane crash while she was married to Gable.
I want to make this somehow fit Charlie Chaplin or Errol Flynn. Can anyone help me do that?
Don't know if it fits, but Dean Martin/Frank Sinatra/Ava Gardener??
Don't think it's them. They both liked 15 year old girls, but when they were done with the girls that was it.
What is the point of blind items about people long dead? It's not as if they could sue.
June, their estates/descendants can sue.
Tony Curtis/ Diana Dill and
Kirk Douglas#2
Or it's Tony Curtis/ Janet Leigh/ Kirk Douglas...one of those combos
You can't libel a dead person.
The woman in question had 3 marriages, at least. Who besides Liz had so many?
Janet Leigh...
married 4x
Yep, no way was Gable having a longstanding affair with an adult woman. He preferred girls below the age of consent.
or am I getting mixed up with who's who. if so, sorry Mr. Gable!
Tell that to Frank Sinatra's family. They didn't get the memo.
It's Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. She was married to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. from 1929-1933, and to Oscar nominated Franchot Tone from 1935-1939. Clark and Joan had a thing for years, with a break during the years he romanced and married Carole Lombard. After Carole's death in a 1942 plane crash, their affair resumed until he married Lady Sylvia Ashley in 1949. One reason why Joan didn't take the news so well was that Lady Sylvia was the much-younger widow of Joan's onetime father-in-law, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.!
NICE sleuthing, HB! I like this answer
Mary Jane, I may have jumped the gun. I have since found an even BETTER fit to the BI- and it involves TWO major Oscar-winners. Not only that, they were real-life best friends: Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart! What did they have in common? MARGARET SULLAVAN!!!
OK- Jimmy and Hank first met as young actors on the East Coast in a theatrical group under the direction of Joshua Logan. Both young men were attracted to a young sensitive actress in the group: Maggie Sullavan. Hank and Maggie married in 1931, but the marriage only lasted a few months! Jimmy still had a torch for her, so when he went to Hollywood a few years later, both Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan had become stars there. Maggie insisted that Jimmy be her leading man in "Next Time We Love", and that was the first of FOUR films they did together!!! Everyone knew that Jimmy was in love with Maggie, despite her marriages to William Wyler and producer Leland Hayward. Meanwhile, Jimmy kept busy with the likes of Marlene Dietrich and Olivia deHavilland, but he actually lived ONE BLOCK AWAY from Leland and Margaret Hayward, and was always seen at the Hayward house. BTW, if you've ever seen the legendary 20th Anniversary photo of MGM, you see Jimmy and Maggie seated next to each other on the from row, with L.B. Mayer, Kate Hepburn, Greer Garson and others.
Maggie's already fragile ego took a blow when Leland left her for Nancy 'Slim' Hawks, the ex-wife of director Howard Hawks and one of the inspirations for Truman Capote's Holly Golightly. This was in 1947. Meanwhile, she still had Jimmy Stewart to lean on, but two years later he informed her that he was marrying Gloria Hatrick McLean, the one woman who made him forget Maggie. From all accounts, the Stewart marriage was a happy one. Margaret was devastated that the one man she felt she could rely on had left her for another woman. ONE YEAR LATER, Maggie married British banker Kenneth Wagg- supposedly on the rebound, but she had a mental breakdown a few years later and was put into a hospital. Worse yet, she was going deaf. In 1960 Margaret Sullivan committed suicide with sleeping pills. As you can see, THIS is an even better match to the BI than Gable/Crawford!
Yes, a story is ALWAYS better when it ends in suicide!!!!
Enty also posted picture of Olivia de Havilland and Jimmy Stewart yesterday,in the random photo gallery.
I think you nailed this one! Great job!:)
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