Clark Gable - 1939 PHOTO Gone With The Wind Photograph - eBay (item 370287031287 end time Nov-14-09 07:51:01 PST)


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Genre:	Movie Memorabilia	Product Type:	Photos
Date:	Pre-1940

A superb and rare photo, made from what we believe is the original negative, of Clark Gable. This wonderful photograph was taken in 1939 during Clark Gable's preparation for the movie, Gone With The Wind.

The negative comes from one of Europe’s oldest, exquisite and most historic cinema collections that we recently took over from its famous private collector. The collection, partly, consists of a vast collection of mostly very exclusive and very old photographic negatives, both on celluloid as glass plates. We consider this material very historic, exclusive and valuable.

The photograph is made from what we believe is the original and very special negative which dates from 1940. Like many movie and press studios, original photos were retouched to make the star, or the background of the photo, look as smart as possible. It was normal to retouch or delete a cluttered background in order to present a nice pristine image. This photograph was used with Tricolor Carbo imaging to bring out the richer colors, new miracle in 1939. A great, precise, yet difficult job that was performed by a true artist. The result is a photograph that looks as historic as it does gorgeous! The end result is a negative that is now over 55 years old.

Please note that this is not a digital print (!), but a traditional photograph, which is processed through the traditional photographic process by a professional photo studio. Every image is fully processed by hand, obtaining the best result possible. As most negatives are very old, several traditional photographic prints of each negative are made. Each has different settings (like varying brightness and contrast). Out of these, the best of the photographic prints is then selected by a professional, and safely expedited to the winner of this auction. This way the best result possible is obtained, as each photograph is absolutely unique and collectable!

William Clark Gable

was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. He has been nicknamed "The King of Hollywood." His most famous role was in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh.

Although he found work as an extra and bit player in such silent films as The Plastic Age (1925), which starred Clara Bow, Gable was not offered any major roles and so he returned to the stage, becoming lifelong friends with Lionel Barrymore. In 1930, after his impressive appearance as the seething and desperate character Killer Mears in the play The Last Mile, he was offered a contract with MGM. Gable's first role in a sound picture was as the villain in a low-budget William Boyd western called The Painted Desert (1931).

He built his fame and public visibility during 1931 in such important movies as A Free Soul (1931), in which he played a gangster who slapped Norma Shearer (Gable never played a supporting role again after that slap), Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) with Greta Garbo, and Possessed (1931), in which he and Joan Crawford steamed up the screen with some of the passion they shared for decades in real life. Clark and Garbo disliked each other. She thought he was a wooden actor while he considered her a snob. To bolster his rocketing popularity, MGM frequently paired him with well-established female stars.

Despite his reluctance to play the role, Gable is best known for his performance in Gone with the Wind (1939), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Gable was an almost immediate favorite for the role of Rhett Butler with both the public and producer David O. Selznick.

Gable's marriage in 1939 to his third wife, successful actress Carole Lombard, was the happiest period of his personal life.

Gable died in Los Angeles, California in November 1960, the result of a fourth heart attack. There was much speculation that Gable's physically demanding Misfits role, which required yanking on and being dragged by horses, contributed to his sudden death soon after filming was completed. In a widely reported quote, Gable's wife Kay blamed it on stress caused by "the endless waiting... waiting (for Marilyn Monroe)". Monroe, on the other hand, claimed that she and Kay had become close during the filming and would refer to Clark as "Our Man".

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Although this Ebay account is new, we have been owners of a large automotive and motion picture photographic archive since 1921 and we have used Ebay for over 7 years as a means to aid funds for the restoration and preservation of our oldest, most damaged and most fragile material. Check out our Ebay account with user ID “ AHerl ” (in the left hand column of this page, under “Items-Members”, click on “Find a member”. Type in - AHerl - and you will see us listed). Please check out our feedback rating and customers comments so you may see the type of sellers we are. We thrive for complete customer satisfaction, and as we believe our customers are as unique as our material we consider customers satisfaction as our number ONE goal!

This is a very nice and very rare photo that reflects a wonderful era of Hollywood ‘s fantastic history in a wonderful way. This is your rare chance to own this photo, therefore it is printed in a nice large format of ca. 8" x 12" (ca. 20 x 30 cm). It makes it perfectly suitable for framing!

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