What Happened To Clark Gable's Children?

March 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Per the Los Angeles Times, Clark Gable's son with Kay Williams Spreckels Gable was, as far as the public knew, Clark's first and only child. Clark was quoted as having told a reporter regarding his impending fatherhood, "This is a dividend that has come too late in life. When I wind up this picture I'm taking off until after the baby is born. I want to be there and I want to be there a good many months afterward." John Clark Gable (above) was born four months after his father's death. In 2000, the Los Angeles Times published a feature on the younger Gable, who was preparing to race in the Baja 500 off-road race. 

John, then 39, noted that his father was also interested in road racing, even starring as a race car driver in the 1950 film "To Please A Lady." "I think my father's love of auto racing, which I learned about from my mother, has been a special bond with his memory. My mom ... tried to discourage me from racing but I just knew it was in my blood. She even hid all my dad's racing memorabilia from me," noted John. The younger Gable has also acted in a handful of films, including an appearance in the 1994 television movie "A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story," a biopic of the woman who wrote the novel "Gone With The Wind."

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