Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor and the biggest box office star of the early sound film era.

Early life

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Clark Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio, on 1 February 1901 to William H. Gable, an oil-well driller and prospector, and Adeline Hershelman. Gable had German ancestry from both sides of his family tree; his maternal grandfather, John Hershelman, was German, as were Gable's paternal great-great-grandparents, Johan Frankenfield and Catharine Haupt. Contrary to popular belief, Gable never had a middle name but was registered simply as Clark Gable. He temporarily adopted his father's name as a teenager only to drop it again a few years later. (Spicer, Clark Gable, McFarland, pp. 7, 30)

When he was six months old, his sickly mother had him baptized Roman Catholic. She died when he was ten months old, probably as the result of an aggressive brain tumor. Following her death, Gable's father's family refused to countenance any notion of raising the child a Catholic, provoking an enmity with his late mother's side of the family. The dispute was resolved when the Protestant side agreed to allow young William Clark Gable to spend more time with his mother's Catholic relatives.

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