Clark Gable: Tormented Star

Clark Gable: Tormented Star
by David Bret

Clark Gable: Tormented Star
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Author: David Bret
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-13
ISBN: 078672093X
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Book Review: Bret's in love with Rhett
Summary: 1 Stars

I've always loved Gable, and have read several bios on him (the best being "Long Live the King"), but this one should have come in comic book format. David Bret is a fantasy writer, not a biographer by any means. He projects his own wishful thinking onto his subject, or victim, by insisting with no proof whatsoever, that he was anything but straight. According to Bret's writing, everyone in Hollywood and their kid brother was or is gay. [...] No matter what Gable did to get ahead in Hollywood, his preference was women.
The only redeeming quality about this piece of junk is to turn it into a parlor game entitled "How many mistakes can you find per page?" Waste of time, money, and eyestrain. I would'nt even give this book away; it would be too embarrassing.

Summary of Clark Gable: Tormented Star

Clark Gable was the archetypal Hollywood gentleman, the kind of man red-blooded women lusted after, and who their envious husbands yearned to be. Yet as David Bret reveals, Gable was also bisexual, a facet of his complex persona that was airbrushed out in an age when such men were invariably mocked as effete and lily-livered. Bret recounts Gable's two failed marriages to women who turned a blind eye towards his affairs with men, such as the actors Earl Larimore, Johnny Mack Brown, William Haines, and Rod LaRocque ? men whom Gable outed to the press to prevent himself from being outed. Bret also reveals exclusively that Gable's wartime "heroics," which saw him promoted through the ranks from private to major in less than a year, were no more than an elaborate publicity stunt, which subsequently embarrassed the U.S. government. Bret draws on a wealth of unpublished material to examine every aspect of Clark Gable's career and personal life, telling his story as it has never been told before ? wholly uncensored, with accuracy and passion.

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