Aug. 24, 1938

Posted October 11, 2007, 6:53 pm
Credit Growing Bolder

-- After much cajoling, screen icon Clark Gable agrees to portray literary icon Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind.
Gable feared he'd never live up to the hype surrounding the romantic rogue in Margaret Mitchell's wildly successful novel -- but he did, and then some.

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