Clark Gable
King of Hollywood
Volume One (1901-1938) of a Three-Part Biography
Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
At the peak of his career, flush with the success of his starring performance in history's most poignant film about the end of the old south (Gone With the Wind), Clark Gable had become a symbol of American pride and power itself. His role as an icon was so pronounced that Adolph Hitler placed a bounty on his head and stated his intention of capturing him alive and dragging him, caged and in chains, as a trophy through the streets of Nazi Berlin.
GABLE! More than any other actor of his era, he influenced America's definition of Manhood. He became a Mega-Celebrity before they invented the word. And despite intense rivalry with lesser actors, his career survived (and thrived) throughout vastly different eras of America's film industry priorities and values. And although he was the most-watched and most emulated actor of Golden Age Hollywood, no one has ever really explored his meteoric but opportunistic rise ti fortune and unparalleled fame.
GABLE! He's here, alive and thriving, the beneficiary of years of research from the creative team at Blood Moon Productions. So complicated is his story that no single tome can contain all that's needed to say in this ULTIMATE OVERVIEW of CLARK, GLORIOUSY GABLED. The focal point of a major trilogy spearheaded by film historian Darwin Porter.
Here he is, the King of Hollywood, Volume One of a three-part biography based on the life and influence of Clark Gable, uncut, unclothed, and stripped of his camouflage.
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ISBN 978-1-936003-95-2
Trim size 8.5x11 Ppg 342 with hundreds of color photos and illustrations
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Blood Moon Productions proudly announces the midsummer release, on July 25, of Volume One of a three-part overview of megastar CLARK GABLE (aka "The King of Hollywood") the most thorough, unvarnished, and unapologetic biography of him ever published.
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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.
