Gable not keen
According to some reports, Clark Gable didn’t actually want the role offered to him in Gone with the Wind. However, it had something he had to pay for… an impending divorce! He was in the process of splitting up with his second wife, Maria Langham, and needed to pay for the proceedings. The big bucks he was offered to take on the role would undoubtedly have come in handy for his split with the Texas socialite.
Third wife
Clark Gable divorced his second wife, Maria Langham, on March 7, 1939, while he was filming Gone with the Wind – and didn’t want too long before securing his third! During a production break for the film, he married his third wife, Carole Lombard on March 29, 1939. He clearly wasn’t the kind of man to wait around! Or perhaps they had always been a thing… Unfortunately, Lombard passed away in a plane crash back in 1942.