She and Clark Gable Would Go Hunting Together
Kelly rushed to the airport and signed a six-year MGM contract a mere minutes before her flight took off. It proved to be a regretful move, however. But she didn’t figure that out for a while. For now, she was in a movie with Hollywood hotshot Clark Gable, and he was dreamy as could be.
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Gable also adored her. They would go hunting while their costar Ava Gardner was sleeping in. When Gable shot a massive 12-ft. snake, she posed next to his trophy. “Someday, I’m going to get married and I’ll want to tell my children I was in Africa on a safari,” she said in an interview around that time.