William Clark Gable (Feb 1, 1901 – Nov 16, 1960) was an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1931. The next year, he landed his first leading Hollywood role and over the next three decades he became a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures.

Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for 'It Happened One Night' (1934), and was nominated for leading roles in 'Mutiny on the Bounty' (1935) and 'Gone with the Wind' (1939).

Gable also found success commercially and critically with films such as Red Dust (1932), 'Manhattan Melodrama' (1934), 'San Francisco' (1936), 'Saratoga' (1937) 'Boom Town' (1940), 'The Hucksters' (1947), 'Homecoming' (1948), and 'The Misfits' (1961), which was his final screen appearance.

The Misfits is a 1961 American drama film written by Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift.

The plot centers on a recently divorced woman (Monroe) and her time spent with a cowboy (Gable), his tow truck-driving friend (Wallach) and his rodeo-riding friend (Clift) in the Western Nevada desert in the 1960s. The film was a commercial failure at the time of its release, but received positive critical comments for its script and performances, and is highly regarded today.

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