Editing Clark Gable (section)

== Style and reception ==
In a photo essay of Hollywood film stars, ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine called Gable, "All man ... and then some."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Evans|first=Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u3ntDwAAQBAJ&q=clark+gable+life+magazine+&pg=PA175|title=World War II Veterans in Hollywood|date=June 25, 2020|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-7777-4|language=en}}</ref>

[[Doris Day]] summed up Gable's unique personality: "He was as masculine as any man I've ever known, and as much a little boy as a grown man could be&nbsp;—it was this combination that had such a devastating effect on women."<ref name="harris" />{{Rp|352}}

Joan Crawford--Gable's eight-time co-star, longtime friend, and on-again, off-again girlfriend--stated on [[David Frost]]'s TV show in January 1970 that Gable "was a king wherever he went. He earned the title. He walked like one, he behaved like one, and he was the most masculine man that I have ever met in my life. Gable had balls".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hollywood Martyr:Joan Crawford|last=Bret|first=David|publisher=Robson Books|year=2006|isbn=978-0-7867-1868-9|location=United Kingdom|pages=287}}</ref>
[[File:Clark Gable 1938.jpg|thumb|left|upright|{{center|Gable in 1938}}]]
[[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] said Gable "was a great, great guy, and certainly one of the great stars of all times, if not the greatest. I think that I sincerely doubt that there will ever be another like Clark Gable; he was one of a kind."<ref name="UPI" />

In his memoir ''Bring on the Empty Horses'',<ref name=":2">David Niven. ''Bring on the Empty Horses'' (1975). Putnam Books. {{ISBN|978-0-399-11542-4}}</ref> [[David Niven]] states that Gable, a close friend, was extremely supportive after the sudden, accidental death of Niven's first wife, Primula (Primmie), in 1946. Primmie had supported Gable emotionally after [[Carole Lombard]]'s death four years earlier: Niven recounts Gable kneeling at Primmie's feet and sobbing while she held and consoled him. Niven also states that Arthur Miller, the author of ''The Misfits'', had described Gable as "the man who did not know how to hate."<ref name=":2" />

Gable has been criticized for altering aspects of a script he felt were in conflict with his image. Screenwriter [[Larry Gelbart]], as quoted in [[James Garner]]'s biography stated that Gable, "...{{nbsp}} refused to go down with the submarine, because Gable doesn't sink." (In reference to Gable's film ''Run Silent, Run Deep'').<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W6jiYnyLRgoC&q=gable+doesn't+sink&pg=PA171|title=The Garner Files: A Memoir|last1=Garner|first1=James|last2=Winokur|first2=Jon|date=October 23, 2012|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4516-4261-2|language=en}}</ref> The novel's author, Capt. Beach, noted changes should be made among the crew to get a Hollywood audience and where a subsequent battle sequence was altered when he should have had script approval, feeling his book was bought by United Artists for its title.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzZlAgAAQBAJ&q=john+gay+run+silent+run+deep&pg=PT73|title=Beneath the Waves: The Life and Navy of Capt. Edward L. Beach, Jr.|last=Finch|first=Edward|date=September 2, 2013|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=978-1-61251-453-6|language=en}}</ref>

[[Eli Wallach]] recalls in his 2006 autobiography ''The Good, The Bad and Me'', that what he felt was one of his best dramatic scenes in ''The Misfits'' was cut from the script.<ref name=":3">Eli Wallach. ''The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage''. Mariner Books, 2006. p. 224. {{ISBN|978-0-15-603169-1}}.</ref> Wallach's character is emotionally crushed when he visits Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe), and instead runs into Gable's character and realizes any hope with Roslyn is dashed. Gable asked (within his contractual rights) that the scene be removed, and when Wallach spoke to him, Gable explained he felt that "his character would never steal a woman from a friend."<ref name=":3" />