Clark Gable
Where Love has Gone
Volume Three (1940-1961) of a Trilogy
Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
In recognition of a Great American Holiday (Labor Day, 2026). Blood Moon Productions proudly announces the release, on August 15, 2026, of the third and final volume of history's most comprehensive overview of the once most famous actor in the world, Clark Gable.
According to its publisher, Danforth Prince, "We've succeeded where others have failed. As it relates to Clark Gable, no one has ever attempted this before. Now, because virtually all of the first and second-hand witnesses to his life are Gone With the Wind, no one will ever attempt it again. Gable, an unlikely roughneck from the oil fields of Pennsylvania, thanks to an obscenely long-lived career spanning many eras of movie-going values, has morphed into "The Icon Who Endured." Blood Moon's newest production decribes how and why."
"Here's how we've described it in booksellers' catalogues: After World War II, as other actors from the Golden Age faced oblivion, Clark Gable successfully adapted to the changing values of the New Hollywood and the New America. This is the third and final volume of Blood Moon's three-part overview of The King of Hollywood. It's about the final years (1939-1961) of Clark Gable, exposed full-frontal as a symbol of The Way We Were and a way of life that will never come back. He was more than just Rhett Butler emoting fitfully with Scarlett O'Hara during the Civil War. He's GABLE, still a potent icon and emissary of the 20th Century, cast into context with every film he ever made and every historic event he ever witnessed."
This, Volume Three, is the final installment of a trilogy whose first volume won awards from book festivals in New England, New York, and Los Angeles and whose second volume (focussing on Gable's 1939 hit, Gone With the Wind) won a "BEST BIOGRAPHY' award from the Great Southeast book festival in Atlanta.
Details
Clark Gable: Where Love Has Gone
Volume Three (1940-1961) of a Three-Part
Biography of the King of Hollywood.
Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
ISBN 978-1-936003-91-4.
A postmodern overview with a BIG footprint
(8 ½ x 11"), hundreds of photos, "stories behind
the story," and a BIG cast of characters. Available
everywhere on August 15 through Ingram,
Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com,
and internet vendors everywhere
Click HERE to read Volume One of Three, Clark Gable, King of Hollywood.
Click HERE to read Volume Two of Three, Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind.
About the Author:
“Darwin Porter is the master of guilty pleasures. There is nothing like reading him for passing the hours. He is the Nietzsche of Naughtiness, the Goethe of Gossip, the Proust of Pop Culture. Porter knows all the nasty buzz anyone has ever heard whispered in dark bars, dim alleys, and confessional booths. And lovingly, precisely, and in as straightforward a manner as an oncoming train, his prose whacks you between the eyes with the greatest gossip since Kenneth Anger. Some would say better than Anger.” (as quoted from Alan W. Petrucelli’s THE ENTERTAINMENT REPORT at Examiner.com).
Porter began his career writing about politics and the entertainment industry for Knight Newspapers and The Miami Herald. Today, he’s one of the most prolific biographers in the world. His portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Howard Hughes, John and Jackie Kennedy, Paul Newman, Merv Griffin, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, and Michael Jackson have generated widespread reviews and animated radio and blogsite commentaries worldwide. Some of his biographies have been serialized to millions of readers in The Sunday Times of London and The Mail on Sunday.
Porter is also the well-known original author of many editions of The Frommer Guides, a respected travel guidebook series that’s among the most prominent and well-respected in the world.
