Gable's Women Author:Ellen Wayne Rugged good looks and a devilish grin made Clark Gable the male sex symbol of Hollywood's Golden Era. And his offscreen love life was more startling than his on-screen romances. — Here is the whole candid story of Gable's notorious affairs-from the woman he eloped with while on a drunk...to screen legend Carole Lombard, the great, tragic love of ... more »his life...to his shocking thirty year affair with Joan Crawford. Here too are the movie queens and starlets, eager extras, hash slingers, and annonymous call girls who were also Gable's women. And here, finally, is a no-holds-barred portrait of the macho star whose real-life bedroom exploits were as legendary as his celluloid clinches.