Clark Gable Kissed Me Trivia Quiz

Answer: Vivien Leigh

"Gone With the Wind" was one the most popular novels of the 1930s. Fans were eagerly waiting to hear what actors would be cast. A host of stars coveted the role of Scarlett O'Hara that finally went to Vivien Leigh. However, there was little controversy when Clark Gable was cast as the debonair Rhett Butler.

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Answer: Claudette Clobert

"It Happened One Night" is one of the most honored romantic comedies of the 1930s. At the 1934 Academy Awards, it was the first film to win five of the major categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Claudette Colbert plays a rich heiress who has run away from a marriage; Gable is a reporter who finds her. Clark Gable promises to keep her hidden if is she will give him an exclusive story of her flight.

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe appears in this film written by her former husband Arthur Miller. She is a recent divorcee and meets through friends Gay (Gable), a middle-aged cowboy, and they develop a relationship. Aided by another cowboy/rodeo Perce (Clift) they form a team to herd wild horses to sell to a dog food manufacturer.

The somewhat unclear resolution of the film sees Gable and Monroe ride away in a pickup truck.

Clark Gable never saw the completed film as he died of a heart attack six weeks after filming. Monroe died within a year of a drug overdose, and Clift had parts in three movies but died of the side effects of alcoholism and drugs at 45.

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

Answer: Doris Day

Doris Day is a journalism teacher. She is quite critical of the state of the newspaper industry. Gable is a newspaper editor and writes a nasty letter to her that she counters with an invitation to speak to her class. Arriving late, he finds her reading the letter to the class. He then pretends that he is a new student and begins to show up. As the movie develops they begin to fall in love and through some romantic comedy crises, make compromises and foster their relationship.

Rotten Tomatoes: 83%

Answer: Jeanette MacDonald

One writer described this film as "a drama, musical, and a disaster movie". The drama is the San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the musical is the singing of Janette McDonald and the often repeated "San Francisco". Clark Gable plays "Blackie" Norton, a notorious gambler and saloon keeper. Jeanette MacDonald is Mary Blake, an opera singer he hires to perform at his saloon. Romance follows and leads up to the earthquake.

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

Answer: Deborah Kerr

Clark Gable was back from the military and the studio was promoting actress Deborah Kerr. The film was advertised as "Gable's back and Kerr got him". The film is an indictment of the advertising agency. Kerr is the widow of a World War Two military hero. Gable's assignment is to convince her to endorse a brand of soap. Reluctantly she agrees as she needs the cash to raise her three children. Kerr becomes increasing disappointed in the way she has been manipulated. However, a mutual attraction developed complicated by Gable's attraction to a night club singer (Ava Gardener). Gable is fired due to not living up to the tactics of advertising. Broke, he and Kerr agree to start from scratch in their lives together.

Rotten Tomatoes: 53%

Answer: Barbara Stanwyck

In this pre-code film both Gable and Stanwyck were early in their film careers. Stanwyck plays a young woman who although has been trained as a nurse, cannot find work due to the drastic unemployment of the great depression. She is hired to work with two children of a wealthy family. She finds the children are in very poor health. Also, the trio of the mother (a hopeless alcoholic), a drug addled doctor, and the chauffeur (Gable) are systematically starving the children to death. The children have a trust fund that would revert to the mother upon their death. Gable plans to marry the mother to get his share of the loot. Stanwyck quits but returns to gather more evidence. Meanwhile a former patient of hers (and gangster) says he would 'take care' of the situation. In the last scene we see an ambulance delivering Gable to the morgue.

Rotten Tomatoes: 86%

Answer: Norma Shearer

"Idiot's Delight" is Robert Sherwoods' play that received the 1936 Pulitzer-Prize. It was adapted for the screen in 1939. Gable is a mediocre song and dance man and does a rendition of "Puttin' on the Ritz", the only time known when he sang in a picture. The hotel in blocked and no one can leave the hotel. People of many diverse background as stuck there. He recognizes Norma Shearer, in one her last roles, as a woman he had an affair with 20 years ago in Omaha but she denies this with a phony accent. She is the mistress of Edward Arnold, an arms provider and war hawk. Discussed with him, she turns to Gable for support. Together they manage get many of the guests across the border into Switzerland. They sing a hymn together as the Germans begin to shell the hotel.

Rotten Tomatoes: 43%

Answer: Jean Harlow

Gable is a plantation supervisor and has an informal and casual relationship with Jean Harlow, a former prostitute. When a engineer is assigned, he brings his wife played by Mary Astor. She is from a cultured background and is very much a lady. When husband is sent on a survey assignment, Gable uses the opportunity to seduce her and plan to be together. Harlow becomes jealous of Astor. Eventually Gable recognizes that Astor is really not suited for jungle life, he rejects her and she shoots him. The last scene has Harlow and Gable back together.

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

Twenty-one years later, Gable made the same movie renamed "Mogambo" but with Ava Gardner in the Harlow role and Grace Kelly in the Astor role. Gable and Harlow made six films together.

Answer: Carole Lombard

Gable plays a role that he played many times that of gambler and womanizer. Finding out that the law is looking for him, decides to hide out in a small town where he meets the town librarian played by Carol Lombard. He tells her little about his past but she catches him using a stacked deck in a bridge game. Wanting not to lose her love, he concocts a scheme. He tells her he has an important business trip to South America and then turns himself in to the police and confesses to several crimes. A friend who is really going to South America agrees to send regular letters to Lombard. When he completes his jail time, he returns to Lombard and regales her with stories about the trip he never took. All's well that ends well.

On the set Gable gave her a pair of ballet shoes for the 'primadona'; she gave him a ham with Gable's picture on it. Seven years later they married. Most biographers agree that she was the love of his life.

Rotten Tomatoes: 70%