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How a Country Bumpkin Turned Into the 'King of Hollywood' | Flashback | OZY

The Clark Gable who became a box-office star bore little resemblance to the young man from Ohio who first arrived in Tinseltown.

"MGM gave Gable’s masculinity yet another boost. The studio revamped his wardrobe, taught him how to fish and be an outdoorsman and encouraged him to drive sports cars, not the beat-up pickups he preferred. “Gable was a complete studio creation,” says E.J. Fleming, the author of several books on early Hollywood. “The Clark Gable that everybody saw in the movies was the antithesis of the real Clark Gable.”