Gable and Lombard screenwriter interviewed

Thanks. I think G&L is a fun movie and I own it, so I enjoyed the backstage info.

He should be ashamed of himself ,the movie was junk and the should have be fictionalized as Warren Beatty wanted to do since just about everything in their lives was changed to Total fiction, and that's too bad, as it was a story worth telling. Badly miscast, Lombard comes off as a shrill, foul-mouthed (while Carole had the vocabulary of a sailor, Gable once said *beep* and sh-t was like music coming from her.") and Gable is portrayed as a dimwit. Neither is true - Lombard was a warm, caring,fun-loving prankster and very giving woman devoted to her mother and brothers and Gable had more than a veneer of sophistication. The film invents situations, or warps real ones out of recognition, never touching on Gable's infidelities, which were so painful to Lombard - in fact, to draw a simple circle around a very complex issue, Lombard died because Gable couldn't keep his pants zipped, and the film doesn't touch on that at all. To its credit, it does try to capture the essence of their love story, but it didn't have to invent, distort, and mutilate "The Great Legend" of Hollywood love stories. 98% of this story is made up. for instance, gable was not in the service when Lombard was killed. she was killed in January of 1942 and he did not join the service until august of that year. also as far as I know their first meeting did not result in a food fight as in the movie. their first meeting was in a little know gem of a movie "No man of her Own" in 1932 and was married at the time to William Powell and they did not meet again until the Mayfair ball in 1936. but they did hide their relationship from their fans and the press until there was an article printed in Photoplay magazine call "unmarried husband and wives" that did "out" them as living together as well as Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor and Paulette Goddard and Charles Chaplin. i think the most ludicrous scene in the movie is Lombard putting on the red dress and parading down the aisle while Clark is supposedly speaking to some ladies group.. WRONG... DID NOT HAPPEN... i just wish when they told stories of these REAL people and they could have told the truth and not rewrite history.. They were a truly magical couple.. If you want the real story of the Gable-Lombard romance read the book "Gable and Lombard" by Warren G. Harris. and Long Live The King .

Thanks for the link. I read it and posted it in my review so others can find it, in case they don't look at these message board posts. It was very informative.