#Josephine Dillon

[thursdaymurderbub]

Clark Gable as told by first wife

In the 1920s Clark Gable (in his 20s) was living and working in Portland, Oregon while taking acting lessons in the evening. Josephine Dillon was a theatre manager in Portland, 17 years Clark Gable's senior. She became his drama coach and eventual manager. In addition to dramatic training, she also bankrolled his physical transformation and (helped to) create the rough romantic persona we all know and love from the 1930s. Here is the story in Josephine Dillon's own words, c. 3 years after their divorce (click to enlarge):

[queerasfact]

Queer Calendar 2023

We put together a calendar of key (mostly queer) dates at the start of the year to help us with scheduling - so I thought I’d share it around! Including pride and visibility days, some queer birthdays and anniversaries, and a few other bits and bobs. Click the links for more info - I dream one day of having a queer story for every day of the year!

This is obviously not an exhaustive list - if I’ve overlooked something important to you, feel free to add it in the reblogs!

January

3 - Bisexual American jazz-age heiress Henrietta Bingham born 1901

8 - Queer Australian bushranger Captain Moonlite born 1845; gay American art collector Ned Warren born 1860

11 - Pennsylvania celebrates Rosetta Tharpe Day in honour of bisexual musician Rosetta Tharpe

12 - Japanese lesbian author Nobuko Yoshiya born 1896

22 - Lunar New Year (Year of the Rabbit)

24 - Roman emperor Hadrian, famous for his relationship with Antinous, born 76CE; gay Prussian King Frederick the Great born 1712

27 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day

February

LGBT+ History Month (UK, Hungary)

Black History Month (USA and Canada)

1 - Feast of St Brigid, a saint especially important to Irish queer women

5 - Operation Soap, a police raid on gay bathhouses in Toronto, Canada, spurs massive protests, 1981

7 - National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (USA)

18 - US Black lesbian writer and activist Audre Lorde born 1934

12 - National Freedom to Marry Day (USA)

19-25 - Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week

March

Women’s History Month

1 - Black Women in Jazz and the Arts Day

8 - International Women’s Day

9 - Bi British writer David Garnett born 1892

12 - Bi Polish-Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky born 1889 or 1890

13 March-15 April - Deaf History Month

14 - American lesbian bookseller and publisher Sylvia Beach born 1887

16 - French lesbian artist Rosa Bonheur born 1822

20 - Bi US musician Rosetta Tharpe born 1915

21 - World Poetry Day

24 - The Wachowski sisters’ cyberpunk trans allegory The Matrix premiers 1999

April

Jazz Appreciation Month

Black Women’s History Month

National Poetry Month (USA)

3 - British lesbian diarist Anne Lister born 1791

8 - Trans British racing driver and fighter pilot Roberta Cowell born 1918

9 -  Bi Australia poet Lesbia Harford born 1891; Easter Sunday

10 - National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (USA)

14 - Day of Silence

15 - Queer Norwegian photographer and suffragist Marie Høeg born 1866

17 - Costa-Rican-Mexican lesbian singer Chavela Vargas born 1919

21-22 - Eid al-Fitr

25 - Gay English King Edward II born 1284

26 - Lesbian Day of Visibility; bi American blues singer Ma Rainey born 1886

29 - International Dance Day

30 - International Jazz Day

May

1 - Trans British doctor and Buddhist monk Michael Dillon born 1915

7 - International Family Equality Day

7 - Gay Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky born 1840

15 - Australian drag road-trip comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert premiers in 1994

 17 - IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia)

18 - International Museum Day

19 - Agender Pride Day

22 - US lesbian tailor and poet Charity Bryant born 1777

22 - Harvey Milk Day marks the birth of gay US politician Harvey Milk 1930

23 - Premier of Pride, telling the story of the 1980s British activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

24 - Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day; Queer Chinese-Japanese spy Kawashima Yoshiko born 1907

26 - queer American astronaut Sally Ride born 1951

29 - Taiwanese lesbian writer Qiu Miaojin born 1969

June

Pride Month

Indigenous History Month (Canada)

3 - Bisexual American-French performer, activist and WWII spy Josephine Baker born 1906

5 - Queer Spanish playwright and poet Federico García Lorca born 1898; bi English economic John Maynard Keynes born 1883

8 - Mechanic and founder of Australia’s first all-female garage, Alice Anderson, born 1897

10 - Bisexual Israeli poet Yona Wallach born 1944

12 - Pulse Night of Remembrance, commemorating the 2012 shooting at the Pulse nightclub, Orlando

14 - Australian activists found the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands in 2004

18 - Sally Ride becomes the first know queer woman in space

24 - The first Sydney Mardi Gras 1978

25 - The rainbow flag first flown as a queer symbol in 1978

28 - Stonewall Riots, 1969

28 June-2 July - Eid al-Adha

30 - Gay German-Israeli activist, WWII resistance member and Holocaust survivor Gad Beck born 1923

July

1 - Gay Dutch WWII resistance fighter Willem Arondeus killed - his last words were “Tell the people homosexuals are no cowards”

2-9 - NAIDOC Week (Australia) celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture

6 - Bi Mexican artist Frida Kahlo born 1907

12 or 13 - Roman emperor Julius Caesar born c.100BCE

14 - International Non-Binary People’s Day

23 - Shelly Bauman, owner of Seattle gay club Shelly’s Leg, born 1947; American lesbian cetenarian Ruth Ellis born 1899; gay American professor, tattooist and sex researcher Sam Steward born 1909

25 - Italian-Australian trans man Harry Crawford born 1875

August

8 - International Cat Day

9 - Queer Finnish artist, author and creator of Moomins Tove Jansson born 1914

9 - International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

11 - Russian lesbian poet Sofya Parnok born 1885

12 - Queer American blues musician Gladys Bentley born 1907

13 - International Left-Handers Day

22 - Gay WWII Dutch resistance fight Willem Arondeus born 1894

24 - Trans American drag queen and activist Marsha P Johnson born 1945

26 - National Dog Day

30 - Bi British author Mary Shelley 1797

31 - Wear it Purple Day (Australia - queer youth awareness)

September

5 - Frontman of Queen Freddie Mercury born 1946

6 - Trans Scottish doctor and farmer Ewan Forbes born 1912

13 - 1990 documentary on New York’s ball culture Paris is Burning premiers

15-17 - Rosh Hashanah

16-23 - Bisexual Awareness Week

17 - Gay Prussian-American Inspector General of the US Army Baron von Steuben born 1730

23 - Celebrate Bisexuality Day

24 - Gay Australian artist William Dobell born 1889

30 - International Podcast Day

October

Black History Month (Europe)

4 - World Animal Day

5 - National Poetry Day (UK)

5 - Queer French diplomat and spy the Chevalière d’Éon born 1728

8 - International Lesbian Day

9 - Indigenous Peoples’ Day (USA)

11 - National Coming Out Day

16 - Irish writer Oscar Wilde born 1854

18 - International Pronouns Day

22-28 - Asexual Awareness Week

26 - Intersex Awareness Day

31 - American lesbian tailor Sylvia Drake born 1784

November

8 - Intersex Day of Remembrance

12 - Diwali; Queer Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz born c.1648

13-19 - Transgender Awareness Week

20 - Trans American writer, lawyer, activist and priest Pauli Murray born 1910; Transgender Day of Remembrance

27 - Antinous, lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian, born c.111; German lesbian drama Mädchen in Uniform premiers, 1931

29 - Queer American writer Louisa May Alcott born 1832

December

AIDS Awareness Month

1 - World AIDS Day

2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities

8 - Pansexual Pride Day; queer Swedish monarch Christina of Sweden born 1626

10 - Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners host Pits and Perverts concern to raise mining for striking Welsh miners, 1984

14 - World Monkey Day

15 - Roman emperor Nero born 37CE

24 - American drag king and bouncer Stormé DeLarverie born 1920

25 - Christmas

29 - Trans American jazz musician Billy Tipton born 1914

[princesssarisa]

The name meanings from more Barbie movies.

@paexgo-rosa

Barbie: Princess Charm School

Blair: "Field."

Sophia: "Wisdom."

Delancy: "From Lancey."

Portia: "Pig."

Hadley: "Heather field."

Isla: "Island."

Emily: "Rival."

Nicholas: "Victory of the people."

Brock: "Badger."

Lorraine: "Kingdom of Lothar."

Grace: Self-evident.

Josette: Short for Josephine, which means "he [God] shall add."

Wickellia: "Little wicked one."

Harmony: Self-evident.

Caprice: Self-evident.

Miranda: "Admirable."

Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 (new characters only)

Kylie: "Boomerang."

Allie: Short either for Alison, meaning "noble," or for Alexandra, meaning "defender of mankind."

Callie: Short either for Caroline, meaning "free woman," or for Callista, meaning "most beautiful."

Selena: "Moon."

Kattrin: Derived from Catherine, meaning "far off" or "pure."

Renata: "Reborn."

Mirabella: "Marvelous" or "amazing."

Alistair: Derived from Alexander, meaning "defender of mankind."

Kathleen: Derived from Catherine, meaning "far off" or "pure."

Barbie: The Princess and the Pop Star

Victoria: "Victory."

Keira: "Black."

Amelia: "Brave."

Seymour: "From St. Maur" (a French town).

Rupert: "Bright fame."

Nora: Derived either from Eleanor, meaning "the other Aenor" (the first woman ever given the name was Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose mother's name was Aenor), or from Honora, meaning "honor."

Frederic: "Peaceful ruler."

Meredith: "Magnificent lady."

Trevi: A district in Rome with a famous fountain.

Liam: Derived from William, meaning "strong helmet."

Vanessa: A name invented by author Jonathan Swift.

Daniel: "God is my judge."

Emily: "Rival."

Charlotte: "Free woman."

Barbie in The Pink Shoes

Kristyn: "Christian."

Hailey: "Hay clearing."

Tara: "Elevated place" or "star."

Hannah: "Grace" or "favor."

Dillon: "Great tide."

Natasha: "Christmas."

Katerina: "Far off" or "pure."

Siegfried: "Victory of peace."

Rothbart: "Red beard."

Albrecht: "Noble and bright."

Hilarion: "Cheerful."

[glamourcityrp]

Most wanted female and non binary only please

Hey there, non. You are always more than welcome to check out our most wanted list, but we obviously want people such as Dianna Agron, Liz Gillies, Sophia Bush, Amandla Stenberg, Miley Cyrus, Asia Kate Dillon, Alexa Demie, Ruby Rose, Indya Moore, Josephine Skriver and Jasmine Tookes.

[clarklovescarole]

January 1939: Mrs. Gable Goes To Nevada

Report Gable Divorce Suit Near; Actor Expected to Wed Lombard

January 19, 1939 (United Press)

Friends said today that Mrs. Rhea Gable, estranged wife of Clark Gable, the actor, would establish residence in Nevada next week to sue for divorce.

She was expected to reside at Reno, the Nevada divorce capital, or at Las Vegas. Under Nevada divorce laws, Mrs. Gable could have her final decree six weeks later. There would not be the one-year wait for a final decree that is necessitated by California laws.

Mrs. Gable was not available for comment and neither was her husband, who name has been romantically connected with Carole Lombard, the actress. A month ago, Gable said he intended to ask for a divorce. A property settlement had delayed matters, but was settled shortly before the year-end. 

It was taken for granted in the film colony that Mrs. Gable would sue on grounds such as incompatibility. Whatever her complaint, it will be privately heard by a judge, the usual Nevada procedure. 

“Years Older Than Gable” 

Gable and Miss Lombard have never discussed the possibility of their marrying, but friends assumed they would wed immediately after the actor is free. 

Mrs. Gable is 11 years older than he. She was 41 and Gable 30 when they married at Santa Ana, Cal., in 1931. She was a well-to-do Texas widow. 

Their estrangement appeared to be marked by no outstanding incidents, but a mere difference in interests and temperament break was announced in November 1935, when Gable left for a foreign cruise, telephoning from New York en route, the statement:

“Mrs. Gable and I have separated and a property settlement has been reached. Any statement on a divorce must come from Mrs. Gable.”

Since then, while they have remained married but living apart, it was reported that Mrs. Gable was willing to give her husband a divorce, but insisted that he should request it. 

Way Cleared For Divorce

The way for a divorce was cleared last month when it was announced that they had reached a property settlement under which Gable had paid her $286,000.

Gable’s friendship with Miss Lombard, movie comedienne, developed some months after his separation from Mrs. Gable, friends said. It was reported to have begun at a film colony night club party during the winter of 1935. Gable has squired Miss Lombard constantly, and she accompanied the actor on his hunting and fishing parties. 

Gable has been married twice. His first wife was Miss Josephine Dillon Gable, a voice teacher who took the Cadiz, O., youth off a job as a telephone troubleshooter and made an actor of him. 

Miss Lombard is 29, and previously was married to Actor William Powell.

Wife Bound for Reno and Gable for Carole

January 20, 1939 (New York Daily News)

Mrs. Clark Gable, winner in her stubborn battle for a hefty financial settlement, let for Reno, Nev., today to establish residence for a divorce from Hollywood’s All-American heart throb.

Unless unforeseen complications arise, she will receive her decree in six weeks – and Gable will be free at any time thereafter to marry Carole Lombard, $485,000-a-year screen comedienne and his partner in the film colony’s most famous “Unwed Husband and Wife” romance.

Rushing Plans

And there were indications aplenty today that Clark and Carole are rushing their plans to bid a fond farewell to glamour while settling down to a life of amiable domesticity. 

Just the other day Gable laid $65,000 on the line for Raoul Walsh’s Encino estate, a tree-shaded paradise with orange and lemon groves, swimming pool, stables, kennels, and all the other paraphernalia for the luxurious rural life which Clark and Carole both crave.

For neighbors they will have Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, Darryl Zanuck, Edward Everett Horton and numerous other movie biggies.

Financial Settlement

Announcement of Mrs. Rhea Gable’s departure for Reno was made by Judge Isaac Pecht, her attorney, with whom Gable’s lawyer, W.I. Gilbert, worked out the financial settlement.

The last hurdle was cleared when Gable agreed to pay the income tax on all payments to his estranged wife, which ultimately will total around $500,000.

Settlement of the long feud was accompanied expressions of hearty good will on both sides. 

“I am sorry that we could not make a success of our marriage but after three years of separation we see clearly that our future happiness lies along different lines,” said Mrs. Gable. “I sincerely hope that should Mr. Gable decide to marry Carole Lombard or anyone else, he will find the happiness he so richly deserves.” 

Said Gable: 

“I regret bitterly that a short time ago a story was printed to the effect that I would seek a divorce from Mrs. Gable. Mrs. Gable and I had a fine life together until the time came when we both realized we could no longer make a go of it. After years of separation, it is only natural that Mrs. Gable should institute proceedings that will assure her freedom.” 

Mrs. Gable is 11 years older than Clark. She was 41 when they married at Santa Ana, Cal., in 1931. She was a well-to-do widow. They separated in November 1935, and have lived apart since.

Mourn Muffed Marriage

January 20, 1939 (Associated Press) 

Regret over a broken marriage expressed today by Film Actor Clark Gable and Brunette Rhea Gable, who indicated she would seek a Nevada divorce soon. 

They have been separated three years. 

Gable said difficulties arising from legal interpretation of portions of the property settlement they signed at the time of separation had been “completely clarified and disposed of the mutual satisfaction of Mrs. Gable and myself.” 

“Mrs. Gable and I enjoyed a fine life together until the time when future happiness was precluded,” the actor said. “I have the highest regard for her and sincerely regret it was not possible for us to make our marriage a success.” 

She said:

“It is with deepest regret that Clark and I did not find happiness in our marriage.”

Mrs. Gable admitted she planned to take up residence in Nevada, where divorce is possible in six weeks. 

Hollywood friends predicted Gable would marry Carole Lombard, film actress, with whom he has kept company the past two years. 

Clark Gable’s Wife Leaves

January 20, 1939 (Los Angeles Times)

Clark Gable’s wife Maria (Ria) Langham Gable left last night to establish residence in Las Vegas, Nev., preparatory to bringing a divorce action against the film star. 

She will make her home with Attorney Frank McNamee, it was disclosed yesterday, and is expected to file her action as soon as six weeks residence has been established. 

It also became known yesterday that instead of a property settlement of approximately $285,000, Mts. Gable went to Nevada with a new property agreement in her purse assuring her of close to $500,000.

JOINT STATEMENT

Attorneys for both parties issued a joint statement in which they admitted that Mrs. Gable will probably file for divorce action against her husband. All technicalities of the property settlement, which had held up an earlier divorce suit, have been clarified and agreed to by Clark and his wife, they declared. 

Both Clark and his wife expressed regret that their marriage could not have resulted in continued happiness together.

Friends of the Gables and of Carole Lombard speculated yesterday on how soon after the divorce is granted there will be a new Mrs. Gable. No dissenting voice was lifted to the proposal that Gable an Miss Lombard marry as soon as he becomes an eligible grass widower. 

GABLE’S COMMENT

“Mrs. Gable and I enjoyed a fine life together until the time when future happiness was precluded,” Gabel said yesterday. “My wife has been extremely co-operative in all respects of the property settlement. Both of us were upset and shocked at the rumor that I intended to get the divorce. Never did such a thought enter my mind and the rumor was most offensive.

“At the present time we find ourselves as completely apart as when we first separated in 1935 and it is natural that Mrs. Gable should be thinking of instituting divorce action.” 

Mrs. Gable admitted that she is leaving to make her future home in Nevada and that she will probably seek a divorce while there. 

Mrs. Clark Gable Moves For Divorce

January 20, 1939 (United Press)

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Mrs. Rhea Gable arrives today for the required six weeks Nevada residence, after which she may obtain a long-expected divorce from Clark Gable, the actor.

A property settlement has been arranged; her living quarters have been reserved, and Gable will be freed from his second marriage. Hollywood believed he and Carole Lombard, his constant companion, would be married by April. California law requires a year for divorce to become final.

It was expected that Mrs. Gable would sue on routine grounds of incompatibility. Her petition will be heard privately by a judge, as is customary in this state. 

Mrs. Clark Gable To Nevada For Divorce

January 20, 1939 (INS)

Clark Gable, filmdom’s No. 1 he-man star, and the beautiful Carole Lombard will probably be married in April, it was learned today. 

They can be married in six weeks, for Gable’s estranged wife, Mrs. Ria Gable, left last night for an unannounced destination in Nevada where she plans to take up residence and secure a divorce. 

However, neither Gable nor Miss Lombard would comment on when they would be married, but close friends predicted the popular film couple would march to the altar in early April. 

Estranged for the past three years form Gable, Mrs. Gable announced that a property settlement had been completed to the satisfaction of each, and through her attorneys, said she would go immediately to Nevada. 

“It is true that I am going to make Nevada my future home, and will probably seek a divorce form Clark, but in doing so it is with the deepest regret that we were unable to find our marriage the happiness we both desired,” Mrs. Gable told an intimate friend last night. 

Wife of Movie Star Chooses Las Vegas As Six-Weeks’ Residence

January 23, 1939 (Universal Press)

Mrs. Rhea Gable settled herself in a bachelor’s 7-room home today and waited for six weeks to roll by so she can obtain a divorce from Clark Gable, the handsome movie hero. 

Frank McNamee, Jr., Las Vegas attorney, moved out of his home so Mrs. Gable could move in upon her arrival from Hollywood yesterday. McNamee was retained as her attorney.

The lawyer said Mrs. Gable will charge extreme cruelty, the mildest grounds on which divorce is obtainable in Nevada. He indicated that she will complain the difference in their ages (she is 11 years Gable’s senior) and general interests made their marriage unworkable.

Settlement Delayed

Mrs. Gable, who was accompanied here by her maid and a cook, said she would have established Nevada residence earlier except for income tax difficulties which delayed the property settlement. 

“After we settled up everything to Hollywood, I really felt free to sever our marital ties,” she said. 

She revealed for the first time that she had come here a week ago “to look over the lay of the land” and then returned to Hollywood.

“I plan to have friends come to Las Vegas on weekends to help pass the time and meanwhile I plan to rest,” she said. “As for my plans, I may take a few walks and visit places I wanted to see on previous trips with Clark – you know, when he was going into Utah on hunting trips. But my main plan is to rest and take it easy after a siege of Hollywood parties.” 

To Meet Residents

Mrs. Gable said she preferred Las Vegas to Reno for her required six weeks’ residence because she had a better chance to “meet the really nice local residents.” 

Her husband is expected by Hollywood friends to marry Carole Lombard as soon as she obtains her decree.

Mrs. Gable in Nevada

January 30, 1939 – The Daily Journal

Mrs. Clark Gable admires the view from the Las Vegas, Nevada, home of her attorney, Frank McNamee, where she established residence to obtain a decree form her actor-husband. Gable is expected to marry Carole Lombard after the divorce. 

[screamscenepodcast]

From Republic Pictures comes THE LADY AND THE MONSTER, an adaptation of Curt Siodmak's novel DONOVAN'S BRAIN that has neither a lady nor a monster... But they had to find some way to get stars Vera Ralston and Erich von Stroheim in the picture!

The final product is a patchwork of convoluted plots, tropes, and under-developed characters. But how does it rank against more cohesive horror films?

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 23:08; Discussion 33:53; Ranking 1:03:31

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26 gennaio … ricordiamo …

26 gennaio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic #felicementechic #lynda

2017: Barbara Hale, attrice statunitense.  (n. 1922) 2016: Abe Vigoda, Abraham Charles Vigoda, è stato un attore statunitense, conosciuto soprattutto per il ruolo di Tessio nel film Il padrino.  (n. 1921) 2011: Mario Scaccia, attore italiano di cinema e teatro.  (n. 1919) 2011: María Mercader, María Asunción Mercader Fordada, vedova De Sica, è stata un’attrice spagnola naturalizzata italiana. (n.…

[graysonclarke96]

Marvel: Young Avengers Protocol to Origins of Grayson Clarke.

Character to Actor:

The Clarke Family:

Grayson Clarke- Chris Wood

Zoey Clarke- Lily Collins

Sally Clarke- Kim Rhodes

Thomas Clarke- Christopher Cousins

The Stacy Family:

Gwen Stacy- Madison Iseman

Simon Stacy- Jacob Tremblay

Phillip and Howard Stacy- Freddie Highmore

Helen Stacy- Susanna Thompson

George Stacy- Mark Harmon

Jill Stacy- Emma Watson

Arthur Stacy- Sean Bean

Paul Stacy- Paul Walker

Miles Warren- Dave Annable

The Parker Family:

Ben Parker- Tom Cavanaugh

Richard Parker- Daniel Gillies

Mary Parker- Rachel Leigh Cook

The Morales Family:

Miles Morales- Jordan Fisher

Rio Morales- Danielle Nicolet

Jefferson Davis- Russell Richardson

Aaron Davis- Donald Glover

Young Avengers:

Rayshaun Lucas- Trevor Jackson

Kate Bishop- Hailee Steinfeld

Daisy Johnson- Shan Dodd

Bobbi Morse- Olivia Holt

The Fantastic Four:

Reed Richards- John Krasinksi

Susan Storm- Hilarie Burton

Johnny Storm- Zach Roerig

Ben Grimm- Conan Stevens

Defenders:

Luke Cage- Michael Jai White

Jessica Jones- Jessica De Gouw

Matt Murdock- Colin Donnell

Danny Rand- Josh Segarra

Marc Spector- Stephen Amell

Elektra Natchios- Julia Voth

X-Men:

Charles Xavier- Patrick Stewart

Logan- Hugh Jackman

Hank McCoy- Ewan McGregor

Ororo Munroe- Sonequa Martin-Green

Scott Summers- Sam Claflin

Jean Grey- Jane Levy

Kurt Wagner- Thomas Doherty

Bobby Drake- Brandon Flynn

Emma Frost- Josephine Langford

Piotr Rasputin- Daniel Cudmore

Warren Worthington- Alex Pettyfer

Alex Summers- Lucas Till

Sean Cassidy- Cameron Monaghan

Kitty Pryde- Danielle Rose Russell

Anna Marie- Elizabeth Gillies

Elizabeth Braddock- Michelle Keegan

Danielle Moonstar- Blu Hunt

Megan Gwynn- Natalie Dormer

Roberto De Costa- Froy Gutierrez

Illyana Rasputin- Anya Taylor-Joy

Tyrone Johnson- Roshon Fegan

Tandy Bowen- Virginia Gardner

Rahne Sinclair- Rose Leslie

Sam Guthrie- Charlie Heaton

(Various other students)

Brotherhood of Mutants:

Eric Lehnsherr- Dacre Montgomery

Raven Darkholme- Pauley Perrette

Cain Marko- Nathan Jones

Victor Creed- Liev Schrieber

Todd Tolenksy- Aramis Knight

Fred Dukes- William Berry

Dominic Petrakis- Toby Kebbell

Karl Lykos- Luke Evans

Jeanne-Marie Beaubier- Kaya Scodelario

Arkady Rossovich- Dolph Lundgren

Laynia Krylova- Tracy Spiridakos

(Various other Mutants)

Villains:

Otto Octavius- Mark Sheppard

Sergei Kravinoff- Manu Bennett

Flint Marko- Dominic Purcell

Max Dillon- Aaron Paul

Curt Connors- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Morgan Le Fay- Katie McGrath

Martin Li- Stephen Oyoung

Lana Baumgartner- Emily Wickersham

Victor Von Doom- Viggo Mortensen

Carl Creel- Brian Patrick Wade

Wendigo King

Aleksei Sytsevich- Andrey Ivchenko

Tony Masters- Jason Statham

Edward Whelan- Julian Bleach

Zebediah Killgrave- David Tennant

Benjamin Pointdexter- Edgar Ramirez

Melissa Gold- Maika Monroe

Morrie Bench- Ben Foster

Thundra- Rebecca Quin

Sinthea Schmidt- Phoebe Tonkin

Other Characters:

Tim Elwood- Drew Roy

Grace Elwood- Lauren Roy

Ava Ayala- Tristan Mays

Felicia Hardy- Marie Avgeropoulos

Morgan Tyler- Hartley Sawyer

Flash Thompson- Michael Provost

Elena Gold- Nicola Peltz

Riri Williams- Candice Patton

Kamala Khan- Iman Vellani

Dante Pertuz- Jake T. Austin

MJ Watson- Sophie Skelton

Harry Osborn- Liam Hall

Norman Osborn- James Redford

Mendel Stromm- David Dayan Fisher

Cletus Kasady- Jackie Earle Haley

Eddie Brock- Alan Ritchson

J. Jonah Jameson- J.K. Simmons

Jean De Wolfe- Sandra Bullock

Jennifer Walters- Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Yuri Watanabe- Tara Platt

Richard Rider- Liam McIntyre

Sam Alexander- Dylan O'Brien

Eileen Harsaw- Camilla Belle

Mikhail Uriokovitch Ursus- Olivier Richters

Rachel Van Helsing- Katheryn Winnick

Jacob Russoff- Kristofer Hivju

Eric Brooks- Duane Henry

Robbie Reyes- Tyler Posey

Kari Lyngley- Katherine McNamara

Jared Lyngley- Ross Lynch

Bruce Banner- Eric Bana (Re-cast)

[princessemarieantoinette]

Hi ! Was Axel von Fersen really a lovely man? What opinions did the French have about him? Thanks !

Hm, I'm not sure if I have the best answer to this question, since I actually don't think I've ever read anything that mentioned the French public's perception of him. From what I HAVE read, I do not believe that the French public were particularly interested in him or knew much of his existence.

During Marie Antoinette's trial, he was mentioned when she was questioned about Varennes, as he was named as the person who supplied the Bourbons with a carriage to leave Paris in. I actually have a book in front of me, Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days by Will Bashor, who claims "This answer [Marie Antoinette agreeing that it was Fersen who supplied them with the carriage] would surely have created a commotion in the hall," but I disagree with this statement. During her lifetime, Marie Antoinette was accused of having affairs with the Count of Artois, the Princess of Lamballe, the Duchess of Polignac, the Duke of Dillon, the Duke of Coigny, the Baron de Benseval... there are probably more, but rumors of Marie Antoinette having an affair with the Count Fersen stem more from Count Fersen's journal mentioning sleeping with a woman named Josephine which some people hypothesize to be Marie Antoinette (one of her middle names is Josepha, but when she married into the Bourbon family, she translated Josepha as Josèphe, not Josephine, but they are similar names). Regardless, that wouldn't occur until the 19th century.

I think it's a fair assumption to say that since Marie Antoinette was accused of sleeping with most of her friends, and the fact that Fersen rumors didn't emerge during her lifetime, the French court did not find him to be particularly offensive. There are memoirs left by 18th century courtiers that do mention Fersen, since some people were miffed that the Queen had a Swedish man in her intimate circle while she left so many French nobles out. Contemporaries did describe him as "le beau Fersen" (handsome Fersen), although tbh, I think the physical qualities he had were more attractive to 18th century eyes than 21st century haha. These are some contemporary descriptions of him: he had a "most gentleman-like air", "a burning soul with a shell of ice", "one of the best-looking men I ever saw", "like the hero of a novel", and "like an Apollo". (I found all these quotes in Royal Romances by Leslie Carroll). Character wise though I would say he was a lovely man, just based off of how dedicated he was to saving Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, even though they were not his sovereigns, although in my opinion I do not think the 18th century French court thought that having a good character was all that important. So I guess the conclusion is that the French court saw him as attractive, but several people that had felt snubbed by Marie Antoinette did not like that he took a place in her friend group that they felt should belong to one of them.

My guess is that the contemporary French public would like him for fighting with them in the American Revolution, but would not like that he tried to help the Bourbons escape Paris (since they believe they were actually attempting to leave the country all together). Rumors about him possibly being the father of Louis XVII do not seem to have existed during the time period, but if they had, I'm sure the French public would not have liked the future king being an illegitimate child of the queen. At the same time, they did not seem to like anyone associated with being Marie Antoinette's friend, even before the Revolution, so take that as you will. He definitely wasn't as controversial as the Count of Artois.

If you're interested in reading more about Marie Antoinette's relationship with Fersen I would warn you to take everything with a grain of salt [and honestly everything you read about Marie Antoinette should be taken with a grain of salt, as I've noticed with a lot of books that I have about her tend to ignore primary sources in favor of Stefan Zweig's Freudian analysis of her while also giving way too much credence to 18th century "tabloids"]. Even in the Bashor example I gave before, he wrote his own opinion on how the public would've reacted, yet people of that time period did not link the two together romantically, and there is no recording of the public reacting to his name being mentioned, even though the public's live reaction to the trial is documented. Elena Maria Vidal has a blog, Tea at Trianon, (http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/) that has several posts discussing the origins of the Fersen rumors and why some people would be interested in starting and perpetuating these rumors. She also discusses it in her book Marie-Antoinette, Daughter of the Caesars (her tumblr blog is @emvidal). If you want to read more about Fersen himself, apparently you can buy a copy of his diary (https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Correspondence-Count-Axel-Fersen/dp/1332008852).

Anyway I hope that helps and sort of answers your question! I personally don't believe he and Marie Antoinette had an affair, but I also don't have any reason to dislike him or think he wasn't worthy of her friendship.

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10 personalidades LGBTQIA+ históricas que mudaram o mundo

*Sylvia Rivera

Sylvia Rivera era queer, latina, se identificava como drag queen e lutava incansavelmente pelos direitos dos transgênero, assim como pelos direitos dos gênero não-conformistas. Depois das Rebeliões de Stonewall, onde dizem que ela jogou o primeiro tijolo, Rivera começou a S.T.A.R, um grupo focado em oferecer abrigo e apoio aos jovens queer sem teto, com Marsha P. Johnson. Ela também lutou contra a exclusão de transgêneros no New York’s Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act. Ela foi ativista até sua morte, participando da Empire State Pride Agenda sobre a inclusão trans.

*Marsha P. Johnson

era uma mulher negra trans, uma trabalhadora do sexo e ativista que passou grande parte de sua vida lutando por igualdade. Ela era uma figura materna para drag queens, mulheres trans e jovens sem teto na Christopher Street em Nova Iorque. Ela estava ao lado de Sylvia Rivera no começo das Rebeliões de Stonewall e juntas elas fundaram a S.T.A.R. Johnson, junto com Rivera, foi uma figura central no início do movimento de libertação gay nos anos 1970 nos Estados Unidos.

*Josephine Baker

era uma artista conhecida na Idade do Jazz e se identificava como bissexual. Ela foi uma das artistas afro-americanas de mais sucesso na história da França e usou sua plataforma para defender o fim da segregação, se recusando a se apresentar em locais segregados e falando na marcha de 1963 em Washington. Baker também foi uma espiã francesa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, repassando segredos que ela ouvia enquanto trabalhava para soldados alemães.

*Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

Ulrichs é considerado por alguns como o pioneiro do movimento gay moderno e a primeira pessoa a “sair do armário” publicamente. Na verdade, Volkmar Sisgush, um estudioso alemão de ciências sexuais, o descreveu como “o pioneiro mais decisivo e influente da emancipação homossexual... na história do mundo.”. Ulrichs foi juiz na Alemanha, mas foi forçado a se aposentar em 1853, depois que um colega descobriu que ele era gay. Depois de se aposentar, ele se tornou um ativista dos direitos gays. Ele escreveu panfletos sobre ser gay na Alemanha e, em 29 de agosto de 1867, Ulrichs se pronunciou em Munique no Congresso dos Juristas para exigir direitos iguais para todas as sexualidades.

*Michael Dillon

Michael Dillon foi o primeiro homem trans a fazer uma faloplastia, a construção cirúrgica de um pênis. Também se acredita que ele tenha sido a primeira pessoa a fazer terapia hormonal com testosterona para começar sua transição. Dillon se tornou médico e serviu como médico naval. No entanto, a imprensa descobriu que Dillon não tinha nascido homem e a atenção gerada fez com que ele fugisse para a Índia. Lá, ele fez votos para se tornar um monge em um monastério budista.

*Virginia Woolf

A escritora feminista icônica foi casada com Leonard Woolf enquanto tinha um caso com a escritora Vita Sackville-West, que era abertamente bissexual. Quando escrevia sobre seu caso e seu casamento, Woolf disse em seu diário, “A verdade que é podemos ter vários relacionamentos bons”. Acredita-se que seu livro, Orlando, seja uma carta de amor que fala de seu relacionamento com Sackville-West. O filho de Sackville-West descreveu o livro como “a carta de amor mais longa e charmosa da literatura.”

*Bayard Rustin

era um amigo próximo e conselheiro de Martin Luther King Jr. e organizador da Marcha de Washington de 1963. No entanto, por ser um homem abertamente gay, ele não foi muito reconhecido por seu papel no movimento dos direitos civis. A sexualidade de Rustin foi usada contra ele e Dr. King pelos partidos opostos, que ameaçavam espalhar mentiras sobre o relacionamento deles. Isso forçou Rustin a trabalhar nas sombras para evitar a geração de controvérsia sobre Dr. King e a Marcha de Washington. Apesar disso, Rustin continuou sendo um ativista político e gay, que trabalhou para trazer a crise da AIDS à atenção da NAACP (Associação Nacional para o Progresso de Pessoas de Cor).

*Eleanor Roosevelt

A antiga primeira dama foi uma humanitária dedicada, presidente do comitê que escreveu a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos para a ONU e promoveu ativismo social durante e depois do seu tempo na Casa Branca. Enquanto era casada com o Presidente Franklin D. Roosevelt, acredita-se que Eleanor Roosevelt tenha tido um caso com a jornalista Lorena Hickok, a primeira mulher a ter sua assinatura na primeira página do New York Times. Suas cartas, quase quatro mil delas, contam a história de um romance. Uma delas inclui uma nota de Roosevelt dizendo “Oh! Como foi bom ouvir sua voz, era inadequado tentar te dizer o que aquilo significava, Jimmy estava do meu lado e eu não podia dizer ‘je t’aime et je t’adore’ como eu gostaria, mas lembre-se sempre que eu estou dizendo isso e que eu vou dormir pensando em você e repetindo o que nós dizemos.”

*Frida Kahlo

era uma talentosa pintora e abertamente bissexual. Ela usava seu meio para abordar tópicos que eram tabus, como a sexualidade feminina, dor e padrões de beleza feminina, primariamente através de autorretratos. Ela também honrou a cultura indígena do México através de sua arte, que atraiu a atenção do pintor mexicano Diego Rivera. Rivera se tornou seu patrono e os dois acabaram se casando. Durante seu casamento, sabia-se que Kahlo tinha casos com homens e mulheres, inclusive Josephine Baker e Leon Trotsky.

*Nancy Cárdenas

Escritora de peças e diretora, acredita-se que Nancy Cardón foi uma das primeiras pessoas mexicanas a “sair do armário” na televisão. Muito de seu trabalho girava em torno de sua identidade lésbica, escrevendo coleções de poesias e peças falando de temas gays e lésbicos. Ela não era só escritora – também era ativista. Cárdenas ajudou a começar a luta contra o preconceito contra gays no México e lutou por direitos iguais para todos, independentemente de sua sexualidade.

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Clark Gable and His WW2 Death Wish

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Clark Gable did not intend to see action when World War II came to America. Which is not to say he ignored the war. Gable was there that day in 1940 when President Franklin Roosevelt gave his famous “Arsenal of Democracy” speech from the Oval Office. And, indeed, the first thing the movie star did when he heard about the Pearl Harbor attack was cable FDR to offer his full support—and, tellingly, the besieged president promptly answered right back.

But then in the 1930s and early ‘40s, Gable was “the King of Hollywood;” the reigning movie star who could sell more tickets than anybody this side of Shirley Temple, and he didn’t have to sing or dance to do it either. He was a mustachioed and muscular alpha who appealed to everybody, even presidents, and was one of the few leading men who would tell Louis B. Mayer no (at least until casting for Gone with the Wind came along). The government saw the value in that kind of celebrity when the dark storm clouds of war gathered over Europe and the South Pacific, and so did Gable. Still, he was practically 41 when the bombs fell in Hawaii and more than happy to support the war from afar.

As he told fellow MGM stablemate Jimmy Stewart at the latter’s going away party in 1940—Stewart had just happily joined the Army—“You know you’re throwing away your career, don’t you?” When Stewart answered yes, Gable added, “You won’t catch me doing that, but I wish you godspeed.”

Gable had success, Gable had power, and for the first time in his four decades on this earth, Gable had something approaching peace thanks to his marriage to Carole Lombard, the firecracker screwball star. Yet in less than a year, all of those things turned to ash following Lombard’s violent death. When her plane went down in a fiery blaze, it was treated as a national tragedy around the country, and for her husband it was the beginning of the end.

The King became broken, despondent, and finally disillusioned enough to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Corps. To this day, some say he went to Europe with a death wish, and on at least one bombing raid, Capt. Gable almost had it granted as a Luftwaffe shell passed right between his feet.

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard posing for photographers shortly after their marriage in 1939.

The King and Queen of Hollywood

Women were always easy for Clark Gable, and for a time so were wives. The first Mrs. Gable was Josephine Dillon, 17 years his senior, and she was introduced to him as an acting coach by another woman who was his then-fiancée. As a handsome, if unrefined son of an Ohioan farmer, the 23-year-old Gable was perfect clay for Dillon. She turned him into her greatest student, teaching him how to lower his voice and hold your attention. As his patron and wife, Dillon also introduced Gable to all her Broadway connections and the adjacent stock companies. It was even as the star of one of those companies that he met Maria Langham, a wealthy widow and oil heiress who was also 17 years his senior. 

As the second Mrs. Gable, Ria introduced Gable to Manhattan’s high society and exquisite living, teaching him social etiquette and the value of a finely tailored tuxedo. One wife taught him how to play at being an actor, and the other taught him how to play at being a gentleman. They served their purposes and they were both brushed off.

But Lombard? He couldn’t brush her off ever.

The first time Clark met Carole, it was a surprisingly chaste affair. The two were cast as the leads of 1932’s No Man of Her Own. Unlike many of his leading ladies in the 1930s, Gable made no passes at Lombard, who was married to movie star William Powell at the time and intended to remain that way. Nevertheless, they hit it off, as the breathlessly quick-witted Lombard did with almost everyone.

Gable wasn’t yet “the King of Hollywood” then, but he was well on his way. Two years later, he’d star in the film that popularized screwball comedies, It Happened One Night (1934), which won him an Oscar for Best Actor, and two years after that he would lead the granddaddy of all disaster movies, San Francisco (1936). By ’38, he was already Tinseltown royalty when then-gossip columnist Ed Sullivan overheard Gable’s drinking buddy and sometime-rival, Spencer Tracy, affectionately refer to him as “King.” Sullivan immediately lit upon the idea of holding a national poll for the “King and Queen of Hollywood.”

More than 20 million people voted and, by a huge majority, Gable was crowned “King” for the rest of his career. Meanwhile, Myrna Loy was elected “Queen of Hollywood.” The fact they were then filming MGM’s Test Pilot (with Tracy) certainly suggests the results might’ve been tampered with. It also likely struck Loy as ironic since her first encounter with Gable ended with her pushing him into a hedge bush after he drunkenly bit the back of her neck while his second wife, Ria, was sitting in a nearby car. Gable refused for years to talk to Loy socially after that rejection, including between takes on film sets.

So yes, the King was a womanizer—complete with a secret baby born out of wedlock to co-star Loretta Young—in a sham marriage at the beginning of his reign. But things began changing when he finally ran into Lombard again, and at last he found his matching monarch.

It was at the White Ball in 1936 that the pair’s paths crossed a second time. By now, Clark was fully estranged from Ria, and the two lived in separate houses. Lombard, meanwhile, had risen to her own stardom by bringing her transgressive life-of-the-party persona to recent screwball comedies directed by Howard Hawks and Ernst Lubitsch. Vivacious, whip smart, and an eventual inspiration for Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lombard was a hard-drinking and giddy star with her own orbit.

According to Clark Gable: A Biography by Warren G. Harris, when Gable saw Lombard on the dance floor, he went up and said, “I go for you, Ma.” After a moment’s confusion, Lombard realized he was quoting their characters’ nicknames for each other in No Man of Her Own from four years earlier. She responded, “I go for you too, Pa.”

For the rest of their lives, they’d always refer to each other as “Ma” and “Pa.”

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard play with horses at the Encino ranch in 1939.

The Love of His Life

That first night on the dance floor actually ended in the pair’s first of many fights. But in a trick that would come to define the pattern of their relationship, Gable woke up the next morning in his hotel room with two doves sitting on his chest. They’d been secreted there with a note on one’s leg: “How about it? Carole.” 

Unlike Gable’s other romantic entanglements, Lombard always controlled the tone and tempo of their courtship while Gable offered Lombard an escape from the glamour goddess, society girl image she’d molded herself to in Hollywood. She was an athlete growing up and, alongside Pa, she picked up outdoor-living again.

Clark taught Carole rifling, skeet-shooting, and camping. In ’38, she joined what had up to that point been Gable’s all-male hunting club with fellow actors and Hollywood talent. When the other men complained about a woman being present and sharing their bathroom, she brought along her own trailer with a private bathroom—taunting Clark and the others by then keeping him out. She crawled in the mud next to the dudes, and would soon be on all of the Gables’ hunting trips.

The pair eloped in ’39 after three years of courtship. This occurred in large part because Photoplay magazine revealed the two were living in sin (Gable was still married and too chintzy to get a divorce). Shortly after the embarrassment, however, Gable paid off his second wife and Lombard became the third Mrs. Gable.

“I just think of that husband of mine all the time,” Lombard once said with her usual candor. “I’m really stuck on the bastard. And it isn’t all that great lover crap, because if you want to know the truth, I’ve had better. No, I’m nuts about him and not just about his nuts.”

When the two moved into their Encino ranch, Gable made his gun collection the centerpiece when you walked in the front door, and Lombard began raising chickens and cattle. It was about as far from Beverly Hills as you could get, or as Lombard enthused, “The best little shit house in the San Fernando Valley.”

It was here that Lombard planned to soon retire, beginning with a one-year sabbatical in an effort to have children. Yet after a year of trying, they only had two miscarriages to show for it. They agreed to keep trying, but they’d soon run out of chances.

Clark Gable and wife Carole Lombard circa 1940.

The Loss of His Life

When the bombs fell in Pearl Harbor, it was Carole who urged Clark to telegraph Roosevelt as soon as possible. She was also in the White House for the president’s fireside chat in 1940. And unlike Gable, she was furious when the president responded, “You are needed where you are.”

With the war finally here, Lombard urged Gable to join the Army in December 1941 while she hoped to join the Red Cross. For Christmas, instead of her usual lavish presents she sent all her friends engravings announcing she’d made a donation to the Red Cross in their name. And when she got wind of MGM publicity chief Howard Strickling trying to position Gable for a safe desk job in Washington D.C. for the course of the war, she told both men, “The last thing I want for Pappy is one of those phony commissions!”

Gable preferred helping the war where FDR told him he should—from the comfort of Hollywood. On Dec. 22, 1941, he presided over the first meeting of the Screen Actors Division of the Hollywood Victory Committee as its newly appointed chairman. The committee functioned as a way for Hollywood stars and leaders to organize all activities in support of the war effort. His wife was the first at the meeting to pledge her cooperation in donations, bond rallies, and touring the troops.

When a request came from the Treasury Department for the Victory Committee to launch Indiana’s participation in the national campaign of selling war bonds on Jan. 15, 1942, Gable recognized his Indiana-born wife as the perfect talent to send along. Carole was thrilled to go, although apprehensive about leaving Clark behind.

Gable couldn’t join his wife on her journey by train because he was about to start work on Somewhere I’ll Find You: his second film with Lana Turner. Up until then, Carole had been very open-minded about Gable’s continued infidelities and little affairs, even after they were married. She turned a blind eye to more than one rumor of him sleeping with a co-star here, or a starstruck journalist there, because she assumed you had to let Clark Gable be Clark Gable. But she drew the line over rumors about Clark and Lana, the latter of whom was infamously dubbed the “Sweater Girl” when she was discovered at a soda fountain at age 16. Blonde and buxom, Turner was 20-years-old when she first worked with the 40-year-old Gable. These stories did get to Lombard.

The evening before she left for Indiana, the couple had a huge blowout during which Clark failed to convince his wife he never slept with Lana Turner. The last night Gable and Lombard were under the same roof, they slept in different beds. The next morning, he did not see his wife off to the train station.

As with many of their fights, things cooled almost immediately. Before she left, Lombard still delivered a pack of handwritten love letters to her live-in secretary Jean Garceau to deliver to Clark, one at a time, everyday she was away. She also had the prank she planned before their fight still be delivered, so when Gable returned home from work that night he found a naked blonde dummy in his bed with a note. “So you won’t be lonely.” Gable reportedly laughed until he had tears in his eyes.

According to Garceau when the two talked by phone the next night, they sounded like “lovebirds” again. And according to the You Must Remember This podcast, Gable had Carole’s hotel room in Indianapolis be covered in red roses when she got in. But before even then, Lombard’s train stopped in Salt Lake City where she saw the troops marching and immediately telegraphed her husband, “HEY PAPPY, YOU’D BETTER GET INTO THIS MAN’S ARMY.”

On Jan. 15, Lombard intended to raise $500,000 in war bonds. Instead, she raised over $2 million. Afterward, she was so eager to get home to Gable following their fight that she decided she’d fly back to California instead of returning by train. This was expressly forbidden by the Treasury Department. Commercial travel was still relatively dicey, and they feared she’d be a target for Nazi saboteurs. Additionally, she was traveling with her mother Elizabeth Peters, a superstitious woman who’d never flown and was deathly afraid to start now. She was also there with Otto Winkler, Gable’s publicist and buddy who was best man at their wedding.

The morning their flight was to leave Indianapolis, Otto got Carole to at least agree to a coin toss. Heads they fly, tails they take the train. Carole won. From Indianapolis, they would make multiple stops, including Wichita, Albuquerque, and Las Vegas. TWA Flight Number 3 never reached Burbank.

That night Gable arranged a surprise party to welcome the three heroes back—as well as a surprise male dummy with an erection waiting for Carole upstairs. He was reportedly giddy waiting for the phone call from limo driver Larry Barbier, who was supposed to report when they landed. Instead, Clark got a call from MGM fixer Eddie Mannix.

“Can I get back to you?” Gable asked. “I’m expecting word on Ma’s arrival any minute.”

Mannix cut him off. “King, that’s why I’m calling. Larry Barbier just phoned from the airport. Carole’s plane went down just a few minutes after it left Las Vegas.” She was gone.

Clark Gable stands next to co-pilot Lt. Col. Robert W Burns beneath B-17 “The Duchess” after bombing raid in September 1943.

Clark Gable Goes to War

The fallout from the literal wreckage of Lombard’s flight was national news. A bewildered Gable joined Mannix and other MGM brass for their own chartered flight to Vegas. He could see the burning debris that Lombard’s flight smeared across Table Rock Mountain from the air. Locals in the city described it as “apocalyptic” and like an “inferno.”

Mannix refused to let Gable go on the rescue party climbing the mountain—convincing him Carole, Otto, and Bettie might have survived and were now walking to the city. So the star stayed behind and drank. The next morning, he received a cable from Mannix. “NO SURVIVORS. ALL KILLED INSTANTLY.”

In truth, the bodies of Lombard and everyone else on board had been more or less cremated by the fire after impact. And while Mannix couldn’t be certain, he believed he found what was left of Carole: a decapitated, charred body with a few blonde strands of hair and the remnants of a ruby and diamond pin Gable had given his wife the year before. He never told Clark about what he saw, but brought back the hairs and piece of ruby.

The next day, FDR sent Gable private condolences and publicly awarded Lombard a medal as “the first woman to be killed in action in the defense of her country in its war against the Axis powers.”

The official and (likely) reason for that flight’s crash is it was overloaded with servicemen and movie star luggage, and the pilot failed to see the mountain in front of him, on which all lights had been turned off to preserve wartime power. Although, according to Orson Welles (as per You Must Remember This), Hollywood and government insiders all knew Nazi saboteurs did in fact bring down the plane, and Roosevelt covered it up to prevent a nationwide panic.

In the months that followed, Gable grew quiet and despondent, losing 20 pounds despite drinking untold amounts of Scotch every day. He dined alone for all meals and began wearing a locket with Carole’s hair and ruby remnants within. According to household staff, he rarely slept and stayed up all hours of the night watching 16mm prints of Lombard’s old movies he had sent over (she’d given him the projector as a Christmas present). Now he had time for no woman except the one he lost.

When he discovered MGM was still trying to keep him from being drafted—with the age range now being raised to 45—Gable grew furious. A scriptwriter pal put him in touch with Col. Luke Smith of the Army Air Corps, who told Gable he should consider applying for training as an aerial gunner since it’s one of those jobs no one seems interested in.

“Everybody wants to be a pilot,” Smith told Gable. “Your becoming a gunner would help to glorify the plane crews and the grease monkeys.” Gable made up his mind to enlist in spite of the wrath of MGM head Louis B. Mayer. He also defied the constraints of his age of 41 by passing the physical—save for the need of getting triplicates of his new dentures (Gable had false teeth his whole career).

On Aug. 12, 1942, Gable enlisted into the Army air force. Right beforehand he told Jill Winkler, Otto’s widow, “I’m going in, and I don’t expect to come back, and I don’t really give a hoot whether I do or not.”

Capt. Gable posing for the press with a gunner’s weapon in June 1943.

The Aerial Gunner with a Death Wish

There is still much speculation over whether Gable actually wanted to die in World War II. His superiors eventually reached that conclusion based on his cavalier attitude, and he at least seemed ambivalent about the whole affair. However, it is interesting he joined the air force considering that, after Lombard’s death, he developed a fear of flying for the rest of his life. Following the war, he would always prefer to make his transatlantic crossings by ocean liners instead of planes.

But during the war? Frankly, he didn’t seem to give a damn one way or the other.

Gable’s biggest fear during the whole conflict was his struggle to pass officer’s training in a 90-day course stateside. A high school dropout, Gable was challenged by the academic course work, which he ultimately got around by treating each textbook like a script he needed to memorize.

Once he was an officer (and allowed to grow back his trademark mustache), he seemed in relatively good spirits for the first time in months. Before going overseas, he told Garceau, “I have everything in the world anyone could want, but for one thing. All I really need and want is Ma.”

In April 1943, Gable was shipped off to join the 351st Heavy Bombardment Group in Peterborough, England, about 80 miles north of London. Gable also received an automatic promotion to the rank of captain, although this had as much to do with the heavy losses of Allied officers as it did with Gable’s leadership.

In truth, Gable likely enjoyed playing the part of officer more than he entirely became it. The military loved letting him pose for the press as a gunner with a bombardier’s bullets wrapped around his neck, but that wasn’t his actual job. While Gable did on at least two occasions take on the role of aerial gunner in combat, his official role was as an observational gunner—he was there to pick up the weapons in the side or rear of a B-17 if the gunner operating it was injured or killed (which did happen).

Otherwise, Gable was there because the Army wanted him to film footage they could use as propaganda, glorifying the role of gunners. While in officer’s school, the Army reunited Gable with cinematographer Andy McIntyre, who would become his sidekick and cameraman in the air. And after his graduation, Gable arranged the transfer of his scriptwriting buddy John Lee Mahin, then a lieutenant serving as an instructor in Combat Intelligence, to join them. In all, Gable and McIntyre built a film crew of six men to film the other fliers on B-17 missions. They were called “the Little Hollywood Group.”

More than twice the age of many of the pilots and gunners he flew with, Gable found himself facing heavy skepticism in his early training.

“None of the kids believed he was going to do anything at all,” Mahin recalled in Warren’s Clark Gable biography. “They never thought he was going to expose himself to any kind of danger. They said it was all a lot of bullshit. It really killed Clark that the kids shunned him.”

The brass, however, loved Gable at first. Many of his superiors invited him nearly every night to dinner, an annoyance he’d soon relegate to one evening a week. And while he welcomed the press to photograph him at the planes, he also refused the special treatment of having private quarters set up, which earned him more respect from the young fliers.

He’d also soon prove himself as a member of Col. William Hatcher’s Chickens (a nickname for his bombing group) when he went up in the air on May 4, 1943. Hatcher was onboard the same B-17 that day as group commander and co-pilot; the 351st were tasked with taking out several factories in Nazi-occupied Antwerp, Belgium.

During Gable’s first combat mission, flak from ground defenses took out one of the plane’s four engines and its stabilizer. More unnervingly, after delivering the plane’s payload, a German’s 20mm shell pierced the center of the plane, with the corner of the shell passing through the heel of Gable’s boot—lifting it clean off—and then exiting the aircraft inches above Gable’s head.

On another mission, Gable took over for gunners who were wounded or killed (there was at least one of each that day). Fifteen holes were found in the fuselage. For Gable, such horrors were also a vindication, as he fully won the respect of the kids around him.

“They adored him,” Mahin recalled. “They couldn’t stay away from him. And he was proud that they accepted him.”

Portrait of Capt. Gable after arriving in England in 1943 as part of the the 351st Bombardment Group.

Hitler’s Prize

At Peterborough, Gable grew increasingly chummy with the other fliers serving. He bought a used motorcycle and would make small talk on trips around the base. And on more than a few weekends, he would head to London to screen at MGM offices some of the footage he shot in the air. He also would meet with his pre-war Hollywood chum, David Niven, who was serving as an instructor for British Commandos and had recently married and had a son.

“From then on our cottage became Clark’s refuge from military life,” Niven recalled. “With Carole’s death, he had been dealt the cruelest of blows, but on the surface at least, he was making the best of it. In his own deep misery, he found it possible to rejoice over the great happiness that had come my way, and he became devoted to my little family.”

Niven added, “Clark’s personal wounds seemed to be healing, but Carole was never far from him, and the very happiness of our little group would sometimes overwhelm him. [My wife] found him one evening on an upturned wheelbarrow in the garden, his head in his hands, weeping uncontrollably.”

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Still, Gable seemed to be settling into a new happy rhythm of camaraderie on the base, frequent trips to London, and even playing the field. He renewed an affair with a pre-Lombard paramour in London, the English (and now married with children) Elizabeth Allan. Nonetheless, he may have been enjoying himself too much for his superiors’ liking.

Robert Matzen, author of Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe and Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3, told me he believed Gable had a death wish.

“Carole Lombard, his wife, wanted him to go fight and she’s killed,” Matzen said. “So he then decides, ‘Alright, I’ll go fight and hopefully I’ll be killed too.’ That’s why he wanted to be in the Eighth Air Force, because he wanted to die in a plane crash.” Also, unlike Stewart, Matzen stressed, Gable never fully adapted to military culture.

Said Matzen, “Gable was much more interested in being Clark Gable in England than Jim Stewart was interested in being Jimmy Stewart in England.” This weighed on the mind of Col. Hatcher, as did the growing understanding that every B-17 Gable was on became a prize for Nazi Germany.

The day the 351st arrived in England, Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce, aka “Lord Haw Haw,” broadcast from Berlin the following: “Welcome to England, Hatcher’s Chickens. Among whom is famous American cinema star, Clark Gable. We’ll be seeing you soon in Germany, Clark. You will be welcome there too.”

Adolf Hitler apparently adored Clark Gable, considering him his favorite American actor. A movie nut with a love for British and Hollywood cinema, Hitler even allegedly smuggled a film print of Gone with the Wind before it opened in the UK. Hitler therefore marked Gable as one of the most prized “war criminals” in the Allied Forces, offering a handsome reward to any German soldiers who can bring Gable to him alive.

The actor was terrified of being paraded through Berlin like King Kong and was only half-joking when he told a friend, “If Hitler catches me, the sonofabitch will put me in a cage like a gorilla and send me on a tour of Germany. If a plane that I’m in ever gets hit, I’m not bailing out.”

While his superiors might’ve appreciated the sentiment, they feared the humiliating spectacle of one of their gunners becoming a Nazi political tool—or the actor putting a bigger target on their bombing group. Additionally, Gable didn’t follow protocol as intended, at one point threatening a military doctor after the physician apparently said nonchalantly that Gable’s pal had hours to live while the young man was awake and listening. And, again, the opinion became that he wanted to be shot down.

So it was in October 1943, after only five combat missions, Capt. Gable was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal for “exceptionally meritorious achievement while participating in five separate bomber combat missions.” Hatcher apparently pulled the strings to get Gable out.

Clark Gable in 1960 on the set of his last film, The Misfits, with Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift.

The End

Even though Gable’s time in combat ended in October of ’43, he still wound up with 50,000 feet of film at his disposal. He was apparently shocked when he learned the air force really didn’t care what he did with the footage since gunner recruitment was up. So he returned to Los Angeles, having been reassigned to the city’s photographic division. Allowed to cut the film at MGM, Gable put together five short films that could be used for instruction on operating B-17s. But by the time it made its way through the Pentagon’s chain of command… the war was over. The footage mostly still lies unused in government archives.

After finishing the films, Gable had expected to be assigned to a new bombing division in the Pacific Theater. As he waited months for the orders to come in, he found out on the news about the D-Day landing in Europe on June 6, 1944. Feeling forgotten and discarded by the Air Corps, he requested to be discharged on June 12, which was his right as a volunteer over the age of 42. A captain named Ronald Reagan granted Gable his discharge after 670 days of service.

Clark eventually re-acclimated to Hollywood and restarted his career, but by 1945 his days as “the King” were waning, and he saw more flops accompany his diminishing hits. He also had many more affairs with leading ladies, extras, and socialites. But for years he refused to marry, telling friends, “It wouldn’t be fair. I have nothing left to give.”

For the rest of his life, Clark mourned Carole, including on Jan. 15, 1944 when he was on hand for the launch of the SS Carole Lombard. Gable was supposed to speak at the event. Instead, he mostly cried.

Eventually he did remarry, twice, and finally had one child who wasn’t disowned in secret. But after the star died of a heart attack at age 59 in 1960, his fifth wife, Kay Williams, honored his final wishes: Gable was interred at Glendale’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Next to Ma.

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December 1938: Clark's Divorce Heats Up

Media coverage exploded in December 1938 as Clark Gable announced that he believed a divorce would be reached with Rhea Gable once their property settlement agreement was approved by the court.

Mrs. Gable balked at first in the media, replying that his expectation of an imminent divorce was news to her.

Within a week, however, the two reached an agreement out of court that would pave the way for their divorce to soon be made official.

Along with this development came rampant speculation that he would soon after marry Carole Lombard.

Chronological news coverage follows.

December 7, 1938 – Appeal Democrat

Gable Hearing Is Postponed

Hearing of the action brought by Clark Gable, film star, to legalize a property settlement with his estranged wife, Rhea, today was postponed a week on motion of attorneys for both sides in Judge Ruben Schmidt’s court.

The actor’s suit was filed in June 1936, and his wife filed and answer a few days later. Both sides, however, have been engaged in legal shadow-boxing for two years since instigation of the suit.

The settlement consisting of an undisclosed amount of property was made Sept. 28, 1935, but dated as of Dec. 15, 1934.

Gable contended the agreement settled all property rights of him and his wife, who has steadfastly refused to file a divorce suit, despite the fact that the couple has not lived together for several years.

Mrs. Gable in her answer said she did not wish to be bound by terms of the settlement. She said a disagreement had arisen over amounts to be paid by her husband and over the manner in which the sums be paid.

Rhea Gable is the actor’s second wife. Since their separation, he has been the constant companion of Carole Lombard.

December 14, 1938 – Associated Press

Clark Gable To Be Divorced; May Marry Carole Lombard

Hollywood, Dec. 14 – Clark Gable’s strained marriage to a woman 11 years his senior today appeared likely to reach a divorce court where he would be freed to wed Carole Lombard, his “best girl.”

The husky film idol himself announced that his estranged wife, Maria (Ria) Langham Gable, from whom he separated in November, 1935, was at last ready to seek a divorce after a ruling on the legally of their property settlement by which she received $286,000.

The settlement was to be presented to Superior Judge Ruben S. Schmidt today.

Gable and Miss Lombard’s nuptial plans, if any, were not discussed. 

It would be the third marriage for the box office king of the movies, the second for the blonde comedienne. For two years, they have been “keeping company.” 

Blames “Temperament”

“It’s temperament,” explained Mrs. Ria Gable, dark-haired stately mother of two grown children, when the rift between her and the actor became known.

A divorcee, she had met Gable in New York when he was an obscure stage aspirant, helped to boost his career, and married him at Santa Ana, Calif., in 1931, after he scored a screen hit. They gave their ages then as 41 and 30, respectively.

During their three-year estrangement, she has denied rumors that, wealthy in her own right, she would never grant the money-making star his freedom. She said Gable has never asked for it.

Like his second wife, his first mate, Josephine Dillon was older than Gable and aided his career. A former telephone trouble shooter, oil worker, and classified ad salesman, he took dramatic lessons from her. She is a successful drama coach in Hollywood today.

Miss Lombard, born Jane Peters in Fort Wayne, Ind., 29 years ago, is the ex-wife of William Powell.

December 14, 1938 – Messenger Inquirer

Gable Says His Wife To Seek Divorce

Clark Gable said last night his estranged wife, Mrs. Rhea Gable, probably would file suit for divorce as soon as the courts legally interpret their property settlement that was effected three years ago.

The property settlement is scheduled to be heard today.

Under terms of the settlement, it was understood Gable has paid Mrs. Gable, his second wife, approximately $286,000. 

“As soon as the court rules on the settlement I shall ask Mrs. Gable to institute divorce proceedings,” the screen star said tonight. “There certainly will be a divorce.” 

Gable would not comment on reports that he intended to marry actress Carole Lombard, his frequent companion at sports and social events. One year must elapse between the interlocutory and final decrees for a California divorce. Gable is 37 years old. His wife is 46.

December 14, 1938 – Evening Standard

Clark Gable, the film star, announced today that he intended seeking a divorce from his estranged wife, Rhea Gable. 

The statement followed the publication of a magazine article in which Mrs. Gable was quoted as saying she would agree if he suggested a divorce. It is expected that Mr. Gable will ask his wife to go to Reno. 

Hollywood gossips are already talking of the possibility of an early marriage between Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. They are seen together a great deal. Carole Lombard was formerly married to William Powell.

December 14, 1938 – Daily News

Gable To Ask Divorce

On the heels of the latest Hollywood sensation – the magazine article “Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and Wives,” which linked Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, among others – Gable told friends today he would ask his wife tomorrow to divorce him so he could marry Carole.

He will do it, he confided, when he meets Rhea Gable in a Los Angeles court to conclude a financial settlement. He settled $286,000 on her originally, as a result of their separation in 1935, but it was generally known here there were other legal and financial details to clear up before the divorce.

Filmdom’s “he-man” denied, however, that the movie magazine article was responsible for his effort to hurry the divorce. With the final property settlement tomorrow the last barrier will have been removed, he explained. He had no comment on the terms of the settlement.

December 15, 1938 – Deseret News

Carole Lombard was besieged with telephone calls from her friends following our exclusive that she and Clark Gable would wed as soon as he is legally free. No story in years was received with such happiness by the many Gable and Lombard fans, who appreciate how difficult it has been for those two who have been unable to marry because Clark, although separated three years from Mrs. Gable, had never been divorced. Their wedding will take place right in Los Angeles, where her mother, Mrs. Bessie Peters, has lived for many years.

December 15, 1938 – Daily News

Gable Ready to Pay $286,000 For Divorce – Wife Balks

He Hopes to Wed “Best Girl” Soon

Court action deigned to expedite Clark Gable’s divorce from his estranged second wife and clear the way for his early marriage to Carole Lombard was postponed today until next week to enable lawyers to adjust some complicated financial arrangements. 

These included a property settlement under which Mrs. Gable would receive $286,000. Gable is ready to pay but Mrs. Gable has objected to the amounts and manner of payment proposed by her husband. The court action was invoked to obtain a ruling on legality of the arrangement once it is accepted by both parties.

Gable, husky film star, whose name was coupled with Miss Lombard’s in a recent magazine article on “Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and Wives,” refused to discuss his plans beyond admitting he and his “best girl” hoped to be married soon. 

It was indicated, however, that if all goes well with the current negotiations, either Gable or his present wife, 11 years his senior, will establish a Nevada residence within the next few days.

In this event it would be possible for Gable to obtain his divorce and marry Miss Lombard after six weeks. 

(Sunday Pictorial, December 18, 1938)

December 15, 1938 – Argus Leader

Mrs. Clark Gable Surprised By Action of Her Husband

Clark Gable and his middle-aged wife have been separated three years, but she is surprised, she says, that he is thinking of asking her for a divorce.

After the film star had indicated in a public statement that just about everything was arranged for the legal dissolution of his marriage, Mrs. Martha Langham Gable went to see her attorney and announced:

“It came to me as a complete surprise. I knew nothing about it until I read it in the papers. I have not talked to Mr. Gable and know nothing about his intentions.” 

Gable, who is known to be romantically inclined toward blonde Carole Lombard, has asked a Los Angeles court to declare valid the property pact by which he has paid his wife $286,000 since their parting in 1935. The case is set for trial Dec. 21, with a ruling unlikely before Jan. 1, after which a divorce suit could be filed.

Since California law provides a year’s wait between the interlocutory and final divorce decree, Gable and Miss Lombard would be unable to fulfill before 1940 their friends’ prediction of marriage.

The 48-year-old Mrs. Gable recently said in a magazine article that she would give her husband his freedom “any time he wanted it.” 

December 16, 1938 – Buffalo Evening News

Carole Lombard Holds Title to Gable Home

Arrangement Reported Due to Pending Divorce Case

Clark Gable’s property in the San Fernando valley was purchased in Carole Lombard’s name to avoid legal complications in his forthcoming divorce from Mrs. Rhea Gable…

December 18, 1938 – Daily News

Wife Resents Gable’s Quick Divorce Plan

Clark Gable’s 47-year-old wife dashed cold water today on the he-man fim idol’s announced plans to speed up a divorce so that he might marry glamourous Carole Lombard.

Mrs. Rhea Langham Gable told The News that Husband Clark has annoyed her with his public announcements and “I resent any reflections on my status as his wife.”

$286,000 Settlement

This was interpreted to mean that when and if she gets the $286,000 settlement now pending in the courts she still will balk at giving Gable the friendly divorce he wants. They have been separated since 1935.

“The announcement that Mr. Gable is going to obtain a divorce was a complete surprise to me,” she continued. “I have tried to maintain the dignity of becoming the wife of a man of Mr. Clark Gable’s standing. I have never said anything derogatory of him or any of his friends or associates. I shall not do so now. I am still the wife of Mr. Gable and the question of a divorce has never been broached to me.” 

Gable, eleven years his wife’s junior, and the 30-year-old Miss Lombard were linked recently in a movie magazine’s article entitled “Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and Wives.” The story declared that Carole calls Clark “Pappy” and “makes his interests dominate hers.” 

Mrs. Gable also had something to say today about that $286,000 she is supposed to be getting.

“Suffice it to say that when the audit is completed it will be found that I have received very much less than the amount claimed,” she said.

December 18, 1938 – Daily News

Mrs. Clark Gable, who has been vehement in her assertions that she hasn’t denied a divorce to Gable, told newshawks that his desire for a divorce was news to her, and refused comment… The picture editors illustrated the story with four-column cuts of Carole Lombard on a skeet-shooting range.

December 21, 1938 – The Meridian Daily Journal

Clark Gable’s Suit Against Wife Started

A preliminary skirmish in what may become a divorce contest between Clark Gable and his estranged wife, Ria, was scheduled today in a Los Angeles court. 

Superior Judge Ruben S. Schmidt was to set a date for trial of Gable’s suit to establish the validity of a property settlement by which he has paid his wife approximately $286,000 since their separation three years ago. 

The film star asserted Mrs. Gable declined to be bound by the agreement. She answered that their only differences were over the amounts paid to her.

In instituting his suit, Gable announced that after a ruling was made, he would ask his wife to divorce him. 

“It’s a complete surprise to me,” the stately matron declared when informed of her husband’s desire for freedom.

Hollywood friends have confidently predicted that if- and when – Gable regains his single status, he will wed Carole Lombard, blonde comedienne.

December 22, 1938 – Cumberland Evening Times

Clark Gable, Wife Reach Agreement 

The way was cleared today for the Clark Gables to be divorced, which in turn was expected to presage his marriage to Carole Lombard.

It was announced in court that Gable and his estranged wife, Rhea, had reached an agreement over a property settlement. The film actor reportedly paid her $286,000 during the three years that they have been separated.

Mrs. Gable had objected to being limited to their agreement in which payments were to be made. Gable had sued to have the agreement declared legal and the case was ready for trial late yesterday when lawyers for both sides said a truce had been reached. No details were given. 

The truce was expected to be followed by the filing of a divorce suit by Mrs. Gable. Gable asked her to do so last week. So far her comment has been: “This is a complete surprise, and I have no statement to make.” However, it was expected that she would go to Nevada where a divorce takes only size weeks. She is 11 years older than Gable.

Gable and Lombard have refused to comment on rumors that they will get married as soon as he is free.

December 22, 1938 – El Paso Times

Early Divorce For Gable Seen

An early divorce for Clark Gable, so he can marry blonde Carole Lombard, was foreseen today when attorneys announced an out-of-court settlement of a dispute over a property agreement between the screen lover and his estranged wife, Rhea Gable. 

The controversy was to have come up for court assignment late today, but the attorneys for the estranged couple informed Judge Ruben S. Schmidt that a truce had been reached.

The truce, it was believed, means that Mrs. Gable will soon file for divorce, probably in Reno. Both Gable and Miss Lombard have refused to comment on rumors they will marry as soon as he is free.

December 25, 1938 – Daily News

Gable, Lombard to Marry – When Wifie Relents

Although representatives of the Hays organization here were the first to congratulate Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, who is to be the third Mrs. Gable, they are now wondering if their felicitations were a bit premature. It appears that legal technicalities – to say nothing of Mrs. Gable – may prevent movieland’s most famous unmarried couple from saying “I do” to a preacher sometime until 1940.

Before the present Mrs. Gable can file suit for divorce, there is the atter of the actors $286,000 property settlement, it is said to have been approved mutually but it must have court approval. That takes times.

Must Await Ruling

Clark recently said his wife, the former Maria [Langham], from whom he has been separated for three years, would obtain a divorce as soon as a ruling is obtained upon the legality of the settlement. Mrs. G. retorted with a balk.

“I resent any reflections,” said she, “on my status as his wife.” 

However, if Mrs. Gable elects to file suit in California some time after the first of the year, and the divorce is granted, California law requires that a full year elapse before the interlocutory decree becomes final. 

Mrs. Gable might file in Nevada and obtain a divorce in six weeks. Or, with Clark’s consent, she might file suit in Mexico and get a legal divorce even quicker than that. 

Then again, as now seems more than possible, she might decide not to file suit.

“I am still the wife of Mr. Gable,” she reminds interviewers.

Gable had been married for about eight years to Josephine Dillon, a dramatic teacher, when a divorce was granted and he married Maria, a wealthy Texas widow, in 1931.

Marital Career Stormy

During the past three years, however, their marital career has been stormy and he ahs been seeing life through Miss Lombard’s eyes. 

She was previously the wife of William Powell.

Miss Lombard and Gable have made no bones about their devotion to each other. Carole, once the life of every party, has eschewed most entertainments – Clark prefers outdoor sports. She has, it is said, been molding her life to his. 

Gable denies that the much-discussed article in Photoplay entitled “Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and Wives,” which linked Miss Lombard and Gable, among others, has had anything to do with the pressure he is placing on Maria for a divorce.

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Killadelphia #3

Killadelphia #3 Written by Rodney Barnes Illustrated by Jason Shawn Alexander Coloured by Luis NCT Lettered by Marshall Dillon     “SINS OF THE FATHER,” Part Three.     Founding father John Adams has stepped out of the shadows to reveal himself as the undead source of Philadelphia’s vampire outbreak. With a legion at his command, he makes plans to cut the rot from America’s core. Meanwhile, Jimmy and Jose must fight for their lives at the city morgue as the dead rise off their slabs.     Jeez Louise, Mary and Josephine this is such an amazing story. The fact that in this issue we learn the past of President John Adams, how he has felt all these years and his own personal life story is so perfectly depicted within these pages. Add into that our father and son duo with their unresolved issues along with Jose. If all that wasn't enough there's still room to focus on the kid as well. There is so much happening within these pages and yet the pacing and the structure of this book is mindbogglingly incredible. My hat is off to Rodney for displaying some of the maddest skill, talent, creativity and nerve through his ability to write.     The story & plot development we see through the way the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is expertly put forward. There are layers of storytelling told in different styles and yet all of them feel so incredibly natural to the one in focus. This kind of talent isn't learned it's god-given and quite I am wholeheartedly astonished by how much veneration I have for the man. The character development is breathtaking in it's scope and detail. It honestly doesn't matter who the speaker is as they all receive the same level of attention in being fleshed out whether by dialogue or how the act and react to situations and circumstances. The pacing is blood well perfect and as it takes through the pages and reveals the twists and turns along way we are treated to this ebb & flow that is able to bewitch, bothered and bewildered.     I wish I could pull the kids name out of my arse but I can't and honestly it's bothering me a little bit we know his grandmother said to the nurse. Regardless, he is that star no one is really thinking about. While Sr. and Jr. have their thing and President Adams is well him the kid is quietly stealing the show here. I like him and I think he's going to be pivotal to the story and I cannot wait to see in what manner it happens.     Jason's interiors are just as formidable as the story itself. You can see him channelling the power and energy of the written word as he brings them to life. This imagery is so strong and compelling and the linework is exquisite so that the attention to detail shines here. When we see backgrounds here they add such drama and intrigue into what we see not to mention the depth perception, scale and overall sense of size and scope to the story. That rooftop moment with the brick work and then the lights in the buildings the distance really evoke such feeling from the reader. The composition we see in the panels is sublime and with the utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels really highlights this arresting eye for storytelling. The colour work is breathtaking and how we see the colours and their various hues and tones create the shading, highlights and shadows really highlights a conversant knowledge of how colour works.     This story is groundbreaking in that we see an approach to the vampyr legend and we're not even seeing the beginning of how that came to be just how President Adam's came into being one. With the depth of characters and characterisation that we see here this is as good as if not better than any story you are going to read, regardless of genre. It is that solidly written and so smashingly illustrated that it's ability to transport you to another time and place leaves the reader mesmerised.

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もはやただのメモ！だけど、今年もやっぱりやっておこう。 ということで、2019年のスウィートな音楽をずらりと。 画像はアルバム・LP・EPのみの分をコレクションしてみました。 去年書いた「過去最高のスピードで世界中の音楽が聴けるようになった」のは、今年も継続中。 ただ、画面の中で自動的にレコメンドされるよりも、周りの友達に「これよかったよ〜」とか、「これ好きそう」とか教えてもらう方が、断然、うれしい。 ジ��ンルは相変わらずいろいろだけど、ジャズ的な要素が増えた気がする。（dublab.jpの影響か、原雅明さんの影響かしら、どうかしら） あと、今年はアルバム通して聴く機会が多かった、というか、その方がフィットしてた。もともとCDを買っていたときの感覚に戻ったようで、なんだかしみじみしちゃう。 そして、11月あたりからじんわりとミニマルハウス〜テクノに惹かれ中。シンプルがゆえに、好みを見つけるのがむずかしい、でも楽しい。新しい境地。 DJ MIXはほとんど聴かなかったなぁ。音楽の聴き方って、1年の間にこんなにも変わるものなのね。 dublab.jpでラジオ番組をはじめたことも大きいかな。 ありがとう、グッドバイ2019年。 2020年は、審美眼を磨きつつ、軽快に。生身の肌で感じたい。 *アルファベット順です *今年リリース以外のものも多くあります *Vanessa Paradis、Marlene Dietrichは常時アイコンなのではぶきます ＊ - My ‘sweetest’ Favorite 2019 - ▽▼▽ ALBUM / LP / EP ▽▼▽ AFK & Bludwork / Loyalty N Service [100% Silk] Akira Rabelais / CXVI [Boomkat Editions] Alexis Le-Tan & Jess present / Space Oddities [Permanent Vacation] Amazondotcom / Mirror River [SUBREAL] Ambien Baby / En Transito [FATi Records] Ana Roxanne / ~~~ [Leaving Records] Anna Homler ‎/ Deliquium In C [Präsens Editionen] Archie Shepp, Jasper Van't Hof ‎/ Mama Rose [SteepleChase] Bartosz Kruczynski, Poly Chain / Pulses [Into The Light Records] Basil Kirchin / I Start Counting [Trunk Records] Basil Kirchin / Primitive London [Trunk Records] Black Boboi / Agate [BINDIVIDUAL] C.Tappin / Ashes to Ashes [Melting Pot Music] Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny / Beyond The Missouri Sky [Verve Records] Chihei Hatakeyama(畠山地平) / Void XIX [White Paddy Mountain] Chocolate Lips / Chocolate Lips [Sony Music] Derric Gobourne Jr. / Supremacy [P-Vine Records] Deweekend / Deweekend [OutOfStock] Dome / Dome 2 [Editions Mego] Eberhard Weber / Encore [ECM Records] Eleventeen Eston / Delta Horizon [Growing Bin Records] Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou / Ethiopiques, Vol. 21 [Buda Musique] Eric Serra ‎/ Le Grand Bleu (Bande Originale Du Film) [Virgin] G.S. Schray / First Appearance [Last Resort] Giovanni Guidi / Avec Le Temps [ECM Records] h hunt / Playing Piano for Dad [Tasty Morsels] Helena Deland ‎– Altogether Unaccompanied Vol. III [Luminelle Recordings] Holdie Gawn｜Micawber ‎/ Gleech Huis｜Parsec Telemetry [Sylphe] infinite bisous / Period [Tasty Morsels] Ion Ludwig / A Better Future To Long [Metereze] J!N /pink stm & wite ptl [Hizz] JAB / Erg Herbe [Shelter Press] Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom / Daytime Viewing [Unseen Worlds] Jai Paul / Do You Love Her Now｜He [XL Recordings] jan and naomi / Fracture [cutting edge] Jan Jelinek / Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records [~scape] Jeff Majors / Yoka Boka (For Us All) [Invisible City Editions] Joao Gilberto / Amoroso [Warner Bros. Records] Joe Tossini and Friends / Lady of Mine [Joe Tossini Music] Joseph Shabason / Anne, EP [Western Vinyl] Juan Hidalgo / Rrose Sélavy [Discos Transgénero] Kali Malone / The Sacrificial Code [iDEAL Recordings] Khotin / Beautiful You [Ghostly International] Kit Sebastian / Mantra Moderne [Mr Bongo] Leech / Data Horde [Peak Oil] Leonardo Marques / Early Bird [180g x Disk Union] Leonore Boulanger / Practice Chanter [Le Saule] Les Yeux Orange / Ghost Dog [Good Plus] Lifted / 2 [PAN] Liv.e / ::hoopdreams:: [Not On Label] Lloyd Miller / A Lifetime In Oriental Jazz [Jazzman] Loren Connors / Evangeline [Recital] Loving / Lately In Another Time [Last Gang Records] Lucas Arruda / Onda Nova [Favorite Recordings] Lunz / Lunz 3 [Curious Music] Mary Lattimore / Hundreds Of Days [Ghostly International] Mega Bog / Dolphine [Paradise Of Bachelors] Meitei(冥丁) / Komachi [Métron Records] melodiesinfonie / A Journey to You [JAKARTA] Molinaro / What The Future Was [Apron Records] Nadia Reid / Preservation [Basin Rock] Neu Balance / In My Life, I've Loved Them All [Budget Cuts] Nia Andrews / No Place Is Safe [rings] Nico Rico / Primitive Thinking EP [Not On Label] Nina Keith / MARANASATI 19111 [Grind Select] Nitai Hershkovits / Lemon the Moon [AGATE / Inpartmaint] Normal Brain / Lady Maid [Vanity Records] Olsen / Dream Operator [100%Silk] Operating Theatre / Miss Mauger [Allchival] Pejzaż / Pejzaż Remiksy [The Very Polish Cut-Outs] Powder / Powder In Space [Beats In Space Records] Priori & RAMZi / Jumanjí [FATi Records] Profit Prison ‎/ Six Strange Passions [Avant!] RAMZi / Multiquest Niveau 1: Camouflé [FATi Records] Regularfantasy /Sunsets & Sublets [Total Stasis] Repetentes 2008 / Galaxia Fini [Superconscious Records] Repetentes 2008 / Gelo Gerônimo [Gop Tun] RIP Swirl / 9TEEN90 [Public Possession] Robert Minden Ensemble / Long Journey Home [Otter Bay Recordings] Robert Minden Ensemble / The Boy Who Wanted To Talk To Whales [Otter Bay Recordings] Robert Minden Ensemble / Whisper in My Ear [Otter Bay Recordings] Robert Wyatt / Shleep [Domino] Rupert Clervaux / After Masterpieces [Whities] Santilli / Surface [Into The Light Records] Sarah Davachi / Pale Bloom [W.25th] Sebastian Gandera / Le Raccourci [Efficient Space] Simone De Kunovich / Mondo Nuovo Vol. 1 [Superconscious Records] Sipprell / I Could Be Loved [Sipprell] Sonia Sanchez / Full Moon Of Sonia [VIA International Artists] Sonny Sharrock / Black Woman [Vortex Records] Soundwalk Collective / What We Leave Behind | Jean-Luc Godard Archives [mAtter] Sparrows / Berries [flau] St. Joseph / Player Nr. 1 EP [Dokutoku Records] Stephen Steinbrink ‎/ Utopia Teased [Western Vinyl/Melodic Records] Takayuki Shiraishi / Missing Link [Studio Mule] Tamaryn / Dreaming The Dark [Dero Arcade] Teebs / Anicca [Brainfeeder] Teiji Ito / Music For Maya [Tzadik] The Caretaker / An empty bliss beyond this World [History Always Favours The Winners] Tim Hecker / Anoyo [Kranky] Tujiko Noriko / Kuro(OST) [PAN] Unknown Mobile / Daucile Moon [Pacific Rhythm] Vanishing Twin / The Age of Immunology [Fire Records] Various ‎/ I Am The Center (Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990) [Light In The Attic] Various / Visible & Invisible Persons Distributed In Space [Numero Group] Various / Wys! V&a Ep [WYS! Recordings] Various / زمان يا سكر = Zamaan Ya Sukkar - Exotic Love Songs And Instrumentals From The Egyptian 60’s [Radio Martiko] Various Artists / 4 Down [Deek Recordings] Various Artists / Turkish Hamam House Disco [Arsivplak] Viola Klein / A Passport And A Visa Stamped By The Holy Ghost [Meakusma] Violet / Togetherness [Togetherness] Voices In Latin / Voices In Latin [Morgan] Wilson Tanner / II [Efficient Space] Yasuaki Shimizu / Music For Commercials [Crammed Discs] Yohuna / Mirroring [fear of missing out records] Yoshiharu Takeda / Aspiration [METANESOS Records] Yoshinori Hayashi / γ [Smalltown Supersound] Zenit / Straight Ahead [P-Vine Records] 元ちとせ / 元唄 幽玄 ～元ちとせ 奄美シマ唄REMIX～ (Remixes) [Au(g)tunes] 孔雀眼 JADE EYES / 渴望 [香港商黑市音樂股份有限公司台灣分公司] ∞σ / DG Hadi [Hizz] ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ / ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლのʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(ƟӨ)ʃ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡ ꐑ(ཀ ඊູ ఠీੂ೧ູ࿃ूੂ✧ළඕั࿃ूੂ࿃ूੂੂ࿃ूੂළඕั✧ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡|̲̲̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ɵੂ≢࿃ूੂ೧ູఠీੂ ඊູཀ ꐑ(ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(ƟӨ)ʃ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡ [༈೧ູ≢)ꐑʅ(Ɵↂↂ. l̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡*̡̡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡| ̲̲͡ π̲̲͡͡.̸̸̨̨ ఠీੂ)༼ू༈೧ູ࿃ूੂ༽(ଳծູ l̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡*̡̡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡| ̲̲͡ π̲̲͡͡ ɵੂ≢)_̴ı ̡͌ ̲|̡̡̡ ̡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡ꐑ*:･✧(ཽ๑ඕัළඕั)ꐑʅ(Ɵↂ๑)✧*:･ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡| ̲̲͡ π̲̲͡͡.̸̸̨̨ ఠీੂ)༼ू༈೧ູʅ(ƟӨ)ʃ ꐑ(ཀ ඊູ ఠీੂ)༼ू༈೧ູ࿃ूੂ༽(ଳծູɵੂ≢ↂ. l̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡*̡̡ ̴̡.]

▽▼▽ SONG ▽▼▽ Akis / New Age Rising (Part VIII) [Into The Light Records] Anatolian Weapons / Ofiodaimon (Tolouse Low Trax vs Anatolian Weapons Remix) [Beats In Space Records] Anna Karina / Pierrot Le Fou-Jamais Je Ne T'Ai Dit Que Je T'Aimerai Toujours (いつまでも愛するとは言わなかった) [Barclay] Baba Stiltz / Showtime [XL Recordings] Bartosz Kruczyński / Pastoral Sequences [Growing Bin Records] Beatrice Dillon / Workaround Two [PAN] Bee Gees / How Deep Is Your Love [RSO] Bell Biv DeVoe ‎/ Poison [MCA Records] Betonkust, Palmbomen II / Rejected Demo Tape [Dekmantel] Blue Gas / Shadows From Nowhere [Archeo / Best Record] Bobby Hutcherson / Tranquillity [Blue Note] Bohren & und Club of Gore - Karin [[PIAS] Recordings] Cécile McLorin Salvant / One Step Ahead [Mack Avenue Records] Cigarettes After Sex / Heavenly [Partisan Records] Cleaners From Venus / Corridor of Dreams [Man At The Off Licence] De Beren Gieren / Broensgebuzze 8.2 [Sdban Ultra] Dolphins Into The Future & Lieven Marten Moana / Lava (Long Version) [Edições Cn] DOS / Need U [Nerang Recordings] Dove, Le Makeup / Angel Diaries [Pure Voyage] Duval Timothy / DYE [NTS Radio] Eliza Dickson, Braxton Cook, Lauren Desberg / Gold [Tokyo Dawn Records] Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch / End Scene [130701 (FatCat Records)] Empress Of / When I’m With Him (Perfume Genius Cover) [Terrible Records] Fafá de Belém / Aconteceu Você [Som Livre] Gary Burton / Las Vegas Tango [Atlantic] Hanne Mjøen / Sounds Good To Me [Spinnin' Deep] Haruomi Hosono (細野晴臣) / 薔薇と野獣(New ver.) [Speedstar] Jay Som / Superbike [Lucky Number] John Cameron / Half-Forgotten Daydreams [KPM Music] John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra / You Know, You Know [Columbia] Joni Mitchell / Shine [Hear Music] Karen Gwyer / Ian on Fire [Don't Be Afraid] Kelsey Lu / I’m Not In Love [Columbia] Klein Zage / Womanhood (DJ Python Remix) [Orphan Records] Kllo - Back To You [PLANCHA] Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith / Lotus Born, No Need to Fear [Smithsonian Folkways] Laurie Spiegel / The Unquestioned Answer [Unseen Worlds] Leon Vynehall / I, Cavallo [Ninja Tune] Lucrecia Dalt / Tar (Jan Jelinek Remix) [Rvng Intl.] mabanua / Call on Me feat. Chara (Knxwledge Remix) [Lawson Entertainment] Madeline Kenney / Nick of Time [Not On Label] Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias / Swept Away [ECM Records] Marcella Bella / Nell'aria [CBS] Mary Lou Williams / It Ain’t Necessarily So [Jazzman] Matthew Halsall, The Gondwana Orchestra, Josephine Oniyama / Into Forever (feat. Josephine Oniyama) [Gondwana Records] Mehmet Aslan / Beat Two Chase [Highlife] Mehmet Aslan / Lobster Is Coincidence [Planisphere Music] Men I Trust / I Hope to Be Around [Men i Trust] Michael Andrews / I’m Not Following You [Everloving] millennium parade / Plankton [PERIMETRON] Murlo / Ferment (Yamaneko’s Flashback) [Coil Records] Noname / Self [Not On Label] Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan / Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack Remix) [‎Real World Records] O Terno / volta e meia [Risco] Octo Octa / I Need You [Technicolour] Ralph Tresvant / Sensitivity [MCA Records] Ratna Das / Rajuan Bulan [Rice Records] Roberto Musci / The Advent of Rose + Croix [Les Disques Victo] Ronald Langestraat / Lowdown [South of North] Salami Rose Joe Louis / Nostalgic Montage [Brainfeeder] Simon Hinter / Makros [Purveyor Underground] SKRS / Dub Shoulda Known [Ancient Monarchy] Smoke Trees / Man in the Moon [Urban Waves Records] Steve Hauschildt ‎/ Strands [Kranky] Tash Sultana / Salvation [Mom + Pop] Tei Shi / Even If It Hurts (feat. Blood Orange) [Downtown] The Golden Filter / Autonomy [4GN3S] Tyme./Tatsuya Yamada / Catch A Fire [astrollage] Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Hanoi 6 [Jagjaguwar] Will Saul / Room 9 [Aus Music] WONK / Sweeter, More Bitter [EPISTROPH] Yo La Tengo / Eight Candles [Verve Forecast] ギターウルフ / バッテラ惑星 [GuitarWolf Records] ちあきなおみ / 泣かせるぜ [TEICHIKU ENTERTAINMENT] んoon / Gum [Flake Sounds] 近田春夫 / 超冗談だから [Victor Entertainment] 佐藤千亜妃 / Lovin' You [EMI Records] 小沢健二 / 彗星 [Universal Music] 大貫妙子 / タンタンの冒険 [Dear Heart] 中原理恵 / ヒーローはあなた [CBS/Sony] 優河 / June [P-Vine Records] (Sandy) Alex G / So [Lucky Number] ▽▼▽ DJ / LIVE ▽▼▽ Sapphire Slows at SUPER DOMMUNE [28 Nov] Nia Andrews at Blue Note Tokyo [31 Oct] Julianna Barwick / Mary Lattimore / DJ Shhhhh at Shibuya WWW ［1 Jul］ Meakusma X dublab.jp at Shimokitazawa Cage LỒNG VÀ QUÁN [28 Apr] 東京楽所第12回定期公演「奉祝の雅楽」 at サントリーホール［2 Feb］ 12月25日のdublab.jpの番組《In Every Second Dream》内で、一部楽曲をON AIRしたのでそちらも是非◎ アーカイヴはこちらから↓

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Norikateatro’s Audio List! 💙

As of:  January 6th, 2019 😄!

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Wicked: Chicago January 06, 2008 - Dan'yelle Williamson (Elphaba u/s); Kate Fahrner (Glinda u/s); Michael Seelbach (Fiyero); Peter Kevoian (The Wizard); K. Todd Freeman (Doctor Dillamond); Barbara Robertson (Madame Morrible); Summer Naomi Scott (Nessarose); Stanton Nash (Boq)

Wicked 9 September 2008, 1NT Cast: Carmen Cusack (Elphaba), Katie Rose Clark (G(a)linda), Christopher Russo (u/s The Witch’s Father), Deedee Magno Hall (Nessa), Brad Weinstock (Boq), Myra Lucretia Taylor (Madame Morrible), Paul Slade Smith (u/s The Wizard), Clifton Hall (Fiyero)

Wicked: San Francisco March 06, 2010 - Eden Espinosa (Elphaba); Libby Servais (Glinda s/b); D.J. Gregory (Fiyero u/s); Tom McGowan (The Wizard); Paul Slade Smith (Doctor Dillamond); Jody Gelb (Madame Morrible); Deedee Magno Hall (Nessarose); Etai BenShlomo (Boq)

Wicked Broadway: March 3, 2013 Cast: Willemijn Verkaik (Elphaba), Alli Mauzey (Glinda), Kyle Dean Massey (Fiyero), Randy Danson (Madame Morrible), Adam Grupper (The Wizard), Catherin Charlebois (Nessarose), F. Michael Haynie (Boq), Tom Flynn (Dr Dillamond)

Wicked: Broadway February 22, 2014 (Lindsay Mendez & Alli Mauzey’s Final Show) Lindsay Mendez (Elphaba), Alli Mauzey (Glinda), Kyle Dean Massey (Fiyero), Carol Kane (Madame Morrible), Tom McGowan (Wizard), Catherine Charlebois (Nessarose), Michael Wartella (Boq), Note: Lindsay, Alli, Kyle & Tom’s last performance.

​Wicked Mexico-June 20, 2014 Elenco: Viviana Barrera (u/s Elphaba), Cecilia de la Cueva (Glinda), Jorge Lau (Fiyero), Paco Morales (El Maravilloso Mago de Oz), Anahí Allué (Srita. Morrida), Marisol Meneses (Nessarosa), Sebastián Treviño (u/s Boq), Beto Torres (Dr. Dillamond), Emanuel Gáitan (Chistery). Viviana's first performance as Elphaba.

Wicked: London  June 23, 2014 Cast: Emma Hatton (s/b Elphaba), Sophie Linder-Lee (s/b Glinda), Jeremy Taylor (Fiyero), Philippa Buxton (u/s Nessarose), Sam Lupton (Boq), Sue Kelvin (Madame Morrible), Martyn Ellis (The Wizard), Paul Clarkson (Dr. Dillamond).

Wicked: Broadway ​January 27, 2015 Caroline Bowman (Elphaba), Kara Lindsay (Glinda), Matt Shingledecker (Fiyero), Tom McGowan (The Wizard), Kathy Fitzgerald (Madame Morrible), Alicia L. Albright (Nessarose u/s), Robin de Jesus (Boq)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Broadway March 14th, 1975 (Soundboard) Cast:  Bill Miller (Brad Majors), Abigale Haness (Janet Weiss), Graham Jarvis (Narrator), Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff), Tim Curry (Dr. Frank-N-Furter), Jamie Donnelly (Magenta), Boni Enten (Columbia), Kim Milford (Rocky), Meat Loaf (Eddie/Dr. Scott)  Notes: This is a live recording made on March 14th, 1975 of the (very short-lived) Rocky Horror Show's original run at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway.  

Cats London November 8th, 1995 Cast: Admetus/Macavity: Richard Armitage, Alonzo: Nunzio Lombardo, Bill Bailey: Daniel Crossley, Bombalurina: Vanessa Leagh-Hicks, Bustopher/Gus: Tony Timberlake, Carbucketty: Sandy Rass,  Cassandra: Deborah Shrimpton, Coricopat: David Olton, Demeter: Michele Hooper, Electra: Nicola Lee-Owens, Etcetera: Charlotte Peck, George/Rumpus: Steven Wayne,  Grizabella: Clare Burt, Jellylorum: Carrie Ellis, Jemima: Kimberly Partridge. Jennyanydots: Beth Robson (u/s), Mistoffelees: Thomas Paton, Mungojerrie: Ian Meeson, Munkustrap: Andrew Halliday, Old Deuteronomy: Graeme Lauren (s/b), Rumpleteazer: Vikki Coote,  Rum Tum Tugger: John Partridge, Skimbleshanks: Tommi Sliiden (u/s), Tantomile:  Tee Soo-Chan, Victor: John Stacey, Victoria: Sandra Kater

​Chicago: Broadway - 1975 8 Aug Cast-Liza Minelli (special temp. replacement - Roxie Hart), Chita Rivera (Velma Kelly), Jerry Orbach (Billy Flynn), Mary McCarty (Mama Morton), Barney Martin (Amos Hart)

Cats 15 July 1998, Hamburg Cast: John Partridge (Munkustrap), Kristin Hölck (Grizabella), Stephan Drakulich (Old Deuteronomy), Ray Strachan (Rum Tum Tugger), Damian Kacperski (Mr. Mistoffelees), Lachlan Youngberg (Bustopher Mürr), Tanya Christensen (Gumbie Katz’), Marco Krämer (Skimbleshanks), Virginia Lilly (Rumpleteazer), Livio Salvi (Mungojerrie)

Cats London: December 27th, 2014

Cats:  Broadway September 24th, 2016 Cast:  Leona Lewis (Grizabella), Tyler Hanes (Rum Tum Tugger), Ricky Ubeda (Mistoffelees), Nathan Patrick Morgan (Old Deuteronomy u/s), Eloise Kropp (Jennyanydots),  Callan Bergmann (Carbucketty u/s), Jeremy Davis (Skimbleshanks), Kim Faure (Demeter), Sara Jean Ford (Jellylorum), Lili Froehlich (Electra), Daniel Gaymon (Macavity),  Francesca Granell (Rumpleteazer  u/s), Christopher Gurr (Gus/Bustopher Jones), Andy Huntington Jones (Munkustrap), Kolton Krouse (Tumblebrutus), Jess Le Protto (Mungojerrie), Georgina Pazcougin (Victoria), Claire Camp (Cassandra u/s), Arianna Rosario (SIllabub), Ahmad Smmons (Alonzo), Christine Cornish Smith (Bombalurina), Corey Snide (Coricopat), Emily Tate (Tantomile), Sharrod Wiliams (Pouncival)

Cats (1989 Original French Cast Recording)

Cats (1991 Original Mexican Cast Recording)  

Cabaret - Signature Theatre Washington DC - Date Unknown Cast: Wesley Taylor (Emcee), Barret Wilbert Weed (Sally), Gregory Woodell (Cliff), Rick Foucheux (Herr Schultz), Naomi Jacobson (Fraulein Schneider), Bobby Smith (Ernst), Maria Rizzo (Fraulein Kost)

​Carousel: 2018  Broadway Revival January 28th, 2018 (1st Preview) Cast: Joshua Henry as Billy Bigelow, Jessie Mueller as Julie Jordan, Lindsay Mendez as Carrie Pipperidge, Renée Fleming as Nettie Fowler, Alexander Gemignani as Enoch Snow, Amar Ramasar as Jigger, John Douglas Thompson as the Starkeeper, and Brittany Pollock as Louise

Dear Evan Hansen:  Broadway - May 15, 2018 Cast: Taylor Trensch (Evan Hansen), ​Laura Dreyfuss (Zoe), Will Roland (Jared), Phoenix Best (Alana), Alex Boniello (Connor), Rachel Bay Jones (Heidi), Michael Park (Larry), Jennifer Laura Thompson (Cynthia) Notes: Alex's first show as Connor.  

El Hombre de La Mancha (1969 Original Mexican Cast Recording)

El Hombre de La Mancha (2017 Mexican Revival Cast Recording)

Little Shop Of Horrors:  Broadway | September 16, 2003 DeQuina Moore (Chiffon), Trisha Jeffrey (Crystal), Carla J. Hargrove (Ronnette), Rob Bartlett (Mushnik), Kerry Butler (Audrey), Hunter Foster (Seymour), Michael-Leon Wooley (voice of Audrey II)

​Into the Woods National Tour (Fiasco Theater Production) 4/11/17 Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles Eleasha Gamble (Baker's Wife), Anthony Chatmon II (Lucinda/Wolf/Cinderella's Prince), Fred Rose (Mysterious Man), Darick Pead (Rapunzel's Prince/Florinda/Milky White), Bonne Kramer (Cinderella's Stepmother/Jack's Mother), Laurie Veldheer (Cinderella/Granny), Stephanie Umoh (The Witch), Patrick Mulryan (Jack/Steward), Evan Harrington (Baker), Lisa Helmi Johanson (Little Red Ridinghood/Rapunzel). *Includes BC/EFA Speech by Patrick Mulryan.

Wicked (2016 Original Mexican Cast Recording)This was released by the official Mexican Page on Youtube. It’s a Soundboard recording of Wicked México. Sound is crystal clear, some of the songs have dialogue. Cast: Ana Cecilia Anzaldúa (Elphaba), Cecilia de la Cueva (Glinda), Jorge Lau (Fiyero), Marisol Meneses (Nessarosa). Adam Sadwing (Boq), Beto Torres (Dr. Dillamond), Anahí Allué (Senorita. Mórrida), Paco Morales (El Mago de Oz), Beto Díaz (Frexspar/ El Padre de Elphaba), Lizeth Navarro (Melena/ La Madre de Elphaba). Alicia Paola Sanchez (La Partera)

Wicked - 2016.08.18 - International Tour Cast: Jodie Steele (Elphaba s/b), Elizabeth Futter (Glinda u/s), Steven Pinder (The Wizard/Dr. Dillamond), Bradley Jaden (Fiyero), Kim Ismay (Madame Morrible), Emily Shaw (Nessarose), Iddon Jones (Boq) notes: This was Elizabeth’s first show as Glinda!

On Your Feet: Broadway April 1st, 2017 (Evening) Ana Villafañe (Gloria), Ektor Rivera (Emilio), Yassmin Alers (Gloria Fajardo u), Alma Cuervo (Consuelo), Amaris Sanchez (Little Gloria), Eduardo Hernadez (Young Emilio and others), Eliseo Roman (José Fajardo), Genny Lis Padilla (Rebecca) My Master: This show was great but there was a very drunk lady sitting next to me, she belted some of the lyrics to the songs!

A Chorus Line:  Westchester Broadway Theatre February 3rd, 2018 (Evening) Cast: Drew Carr (Mike), Tiffany Chalothorn (Connie), Erika Conaway (Tricia), Joseph Cullinane (Greg), Kevin Curtis (Richie), Emma Degerstedt (Val), Brian Dillon (Larry), David Elder (Zach), Tim Fuchs (Al), Danielle Marie Gonzalez (Vicki),  David Grindrod (Roy), Michael John Hughes (Paul), Tyler Jimenez (Don), Emily Kelly (Maggie), Ashley Klinger Kristine), Joey Lucherini (Frank), Erica Mansfield (Cassie), Alexandra Matteo (Diana), Logan Mortier (Bobby), PJ Palmer (Mark), Lauren Sprague (Sheila), Kelsey Walston (Bebe), Caitlin Wilayton (Judy) My Master: This performance was wonderful, it had no intermission.

Avenue Q 1999 Demos

Anastasia: Broadway July 21, 2017 ( 8:00 PM) cast: Christy Altomare (Anya), Derek Klena (Dmitry), Mary Beth Peil (Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna), Ramin Karimloo (Gleb), John Bolton (Vlad Popov), Caroline O'Connor (Lily), Kathryn Boswell (Countess Gregory swing) My Master

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Broadway November 11th, 2017 (Evening) Cast: Christian Borle (Willy Wonka), Ryan Foust (Charlie Bucket), Kyle Taylor Parker (Mrs. Green), John Rubinstein (Grandpa Joe), Emily Padgett (Mrs. Bucket), Kristy Cates (Grandma Josephine), Madeleine Doherty (Grandma Georgina), Paul Slade Smith (Grandpa George), Mikey Winslow( Jerry u), Stephanie Gibson (Cherry), Kathy Fitzgerald (Mrs. Gloop), F. Michael Haynie (Augustus Gloop), Jared Bradslaw (Mr. Salt u), Emma Pfaeffle (Veruca Salt), Mr. Beauregarde (Alan H. Green), Violet Beauregarde (Trista Dollison), Michael Wartella (Mike TeaVee), Jackie Hoffman (Mrs. Teavee) (My Master)

Miss Saigon:  Broadway January 14th, 2018 Cast: Eva Noblezada (Kim), Jon Jon Briones (The Engineer), Alistair Brammer (Chris), Katie Rose Clarke (Ellen), Nicholas Christopher (John), Devin Ilaw (Thuy), Dorcas Leung (Gigi) (Final Show)

Mary Poppins: (2012 Mexican Cast Recording) Bianca Marroquin (Mary Poppins), Mauricio Salas (Bert), Catalina Farias (Winifred Banks), Paco Morales (George Banks), Daniela Meneses [?] (Jane Banks), Sebastián Gallegos[?] (Michael Banks) Andrés Elvira (Valentin), Mariano Bucio (Neleus), Alm Cristal (Mrs. Brill), Andrés Sáez (Robertson Ay), Laura Cortés (Ms. Andrew & Bird Woman), Sergio Carranza (Almirante Boom), Paloma Cordero (Mrs. Corry), Natalia Saltiel (Mrs. Lark), Vince Miranda, Eden Pintos, Marcela Nava, Alma Escudero, Yolanda Campos, Majo Perez, Julieta Martínez, Eduardo Ibarra, Carlos Pulido, Omar Rodríguez, Alexo Fergo, Antonio Mariscal, Alicia Paola Sánchez, Jose Sampedro, Kim Yañez, Raymundo Montoya, Óscar Hernández, Roberto Hernández, Cecilia Arias, Mariano Villarello, Marcia Peña, Ruben Plascencia, Lolo Jiménez. *Songs only. This was recorded from the soundboard from various dates throughout the run.

Once on this Island: Broadway Revival January 22nd, 2018 Cast:   Hailey Kilgore (Ti Moune), Isaac Powell (Daniel), Tamyra Gray (Papa Ge), Lea Salonga (Erzulie), Norm Lewis (Agwe), Alex Newell (Asaka), Kenita R. Miller (Mama Euralie), T Oliver Reid (u/s Tonton Julian), Mia Williamson (Little Girl), Alysha Deslorieux (Andrea/Storyteller), David Jennings (Armand/Storyteller), Tyler Hardwick (u/s Beauxhommes/Storyteller).

Frozen: Broadway March 4th, 2018- Cast: Alyssa Fox (s/b Elsa), Patti Murin, John Riddle, Jelani Alladin, Andrew Pirozzi, Greg HIldreth, Audrey Bennett, Brooklyn Nelson, Ann Sanders, James Brown III, Timothy Hughes, Olivia Phillip, Robert Creighton, Kevin Del Aguila Notes: Alyssa Fox’s debut as Elsa

Chicago Broadway: April 1st, 2018 (Evening) Cast: Amra-Faye Wright (Velma), Charlotte d’ Amboise (Roxie), Brian O’ Brien (Fred Casey) , Evan Harrington (Amos) , Katie Mitchell (Liz), Pilar Millhollen (Annie), Donna Marie Asbury (June), Beth Johnson Nicely (Hunyak u/s), Angel Reda (Mona), Valerie Simpson (Matron “Mama” Morton), Chaz Lamar Shepherd (Billy Flynn), R. Lowe (Mary Sunshine), Jessica Ernest (Go-To-Hell Kitty)  My Master: Act 1 only (Ends towards the middle of Cell Block Tango)

Kinky Boots: Broadway April 28th, 2018 Cast: Charlie Price (David Cook), Blaine Alden Krauss (Lola u), Cooper Lantz (Young Charlie), Jesús del Orden (Young Lola), Stephen Berger (Mr. Price), Eugene Barry-Hill (Simon Sr), Caroline Bowman (Nicola), Marcus Neville (George), Daniel Stewart Sherman (Don), Kirstin Maldonado (Lauren), Natalie Joy Johnson (Pat), Jake Odmark (Harry), Jennifer Perry (Trish), Ciarán Mccarthy (Richard Bailey), Adinah Alexander (Milan Stage Manager), Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Alfred Dalpino (u/s), Fred Odgaard, Kyle Post, Charlie Sutton, and Joey Taranto (Angels) My Master: Ciarán Mccarthy’s Broadway debut!

Mean Girls: Broadway 6/17/2018 Cast: Erika Henningsen (Cady Heron), Becca Petersen (u/s Regina George), Ashley Park (Gretchen Wieners), Kate Rockwell (Karen  Smith), Barrett Wilbert Weed (Janis Sarkisian), Grey Henson (Damian Hubbard), Kerry Butler (Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George), Rick Younger (Mr. Duvall), Kyle Selig (Aaron Samuels), Cheech Manohar (Kevin Gnapoor), Iain Young (u/s Mr Heron) Notes: Becca's Regina George debut

Moulin Rouge: Boston Tryouts July 24th, 2018- Cast: Aaron Tveit (Christian), Karen Olivo (Satine), Danny Burstein (Harold Zidler), Sahr Ngaujah (Toulouse-Lautrec), Tam Mutu (Duke of Monroth), Ricky Rojas (Santiago), Robyn Hurder (Nini) Notes: Act I is pretty much the same but Act II has some changes. "Roxanne is now far more manic and powerful, Crazy/Rolling in the Deep has a much more desperate feel which makes the pain Christian and Satine feel much more obvious, and Come What May is restored in part to Satine's death scene."

Be More Chill-​August 2, 2018 (Off Broadway) Will Roland (Jeremy Heere), George Salazar (Michael Mell), Stephanie Hsu (Christine Canigula), Jason Tam (The SQUIP), Katlyn Carlson (Chloe Valentine), Lauren Marcus (Brooke Lohst), Gerard Canonico (Rich Goranski), Tiffany Mann (Jenna Rolan), Britton Smith (Jake Dillinger), Jason "SweetTooth" Williams (Mr. Heere/Mr. Reyes/Scary Stock Boy)

Once on this Island: Broadway Revival August 18th, 2018- 2:00 PM Cast:   Lauren Lott (Ti Moune), Isaac Powell (Daniel), Merle Dandridge (Papa Ge) Darlesia Cearcy (Erzulie), Quentin Earl Darrington (Agwe), Alex Newell (Asaka), Kenita R. Miller (Mama Euralie), Boise Holmes ( Tonton Julian), Mia Williamson (Little Girl), Anna Uzele (Andrea/Storyteller), David Jennings (Armand/Storyteller), and Daniel Yearwood ( Beauxhommes/Storyteller) My Master Notes: This was such an incredible show, I cried a lot!

Wicked - Broadway December 1st, 2018 Cast: Jessica Vosk (Elphaba), Amanda Jane Cooper (Glinda), Ryan Mccartan (Fiyero), Jye Frasca (Boq), Kristen Martin (Nessarose), Nancy Opel (Madame Morrible), Kevin Chamberlin (The Wizard), Jamie Jackson (Dr. Dillamond), Michael Di Liberto (u/s Witch’s Father/Ozian Official), Lindsay Janisse (Witch’s Mother), Kathy Santen (Midwife), Dominic Giudici (Chistery), Ioana Alfonso, Larkin Bogan, Teneise Mitchell Ellis, Dominic Giudici, Dan Gleason, Josh Daniel Green, Jeff Heimbrock, Manuel I. Herrera, Courtney Iventosch, Lindsay Janisse, Britney Johnson, Katie Ladner, Marissa Lupp, Matt Meigs, Dashi Mitchell, Lindsay K. Northen, Jonathan Ritter, William Ryall, Kathy Santen, Hannah Shankman, Travis Taber, Jeremy Thompson (Monkeys, students, Denizens of the Emerald City, Palace Guards and Other Citizens of Oz)   User: dnc445 on Reddit’s Master

Dear Evan Hansen - Broadway December 12, 2018 ​Cast: Roman Banks (u/s Evan), Lisa Brescia (Heidi Hansen), Mallory Bechtel (Zoe Murphy), Sky Lakota-Lynch (Jared Kleinman), Phoenix Best (Alana Beck), Alex Boniello (Connor Murphy), Garrett Long (u/s Cynthia Murphy), Michael Park (Larry Murphy) Roman Banks First Performance

King Kong Broadway: December 13th, 2018- 2:00 PM Cast: Christiani Pitts (Ann Darrow), Eric William Morris (Carl Denham), Erik Lochtefeld (Lumpy), Rory Donovan (Captain Englehorn), Harley Jay (Barman), Casey Garvin (Fake Carl), John Hoche (Voice of Kong ) My Master: This show was really fun! James Retter Duncan (swing) and Nick Rashad Burroughs’ first show!

Instrumentals: A Chorus Line US Tour  Pit Tracks

Cats Instrumental Tracks (Mortifer) A lot of the tracks are synthesized, sounds like someone took a lot of karaoke tracks and put them together with orchestra but they’re some great tracks.

Cats Mexico 1991 Orchestra Tracks (Teatro Silvia Pinal) ​

The Wizard of Oz Orchestra Tracks (RSC’ 1981)

Les Mis US Tour Orchestra Tracks

​Wicked Orchestra Tracks Notes: This album is given to cast members when they first get cast in the show. People say this orchestration is the First National Tour one but it really isn’t, it sounds much more like the LA orchestrations. Perfect quality, includes every musical interlude, underscore, song, etc.

Audio Wants: Audio of the current touring cast of Wicked, Any Cats Orchestra Tracks. Anything with Wicked, Cats México or Argentina, Dear Evan Hansen, Waitress, Once on this Island, The Wizard of Oz, and anything I don’t have!

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