TCM Race & Hollywood: Gone With The Wind 2 BTS

[@HISTORYGRL]

This warms my heart because I’m a huge Clark Gable fan and I commend both of these men for speaking up that day !

[@onerewdone5516]

Fun fact: Clark Gable and Hattie McDaniel remained close friends after GWTW.

[@animangafan342]

Yep! He even refused to do some premiere appearance in the South because they did not allow McDaniel at the premiere because of the segregation laws. She had to convince Clark to go. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone.

[@SouLoveReal]

They were friends (and co-workers) even before GWTW. In fact, it was Gable who BEGGED David O. Selznick to have McDaniel as the character Mammy.

[@philippeh3904]

I’m glad that Clark Gable was like that, most of the actors at that time were either racists or people who just didn’t care to do anything

[@Jenjen-qc5eq]

He was like that because he had black ancestry and he never hid it.

[@stevem2323]

Most of them weren't racist, but conformist, sure

[@ednasingleton864]

Didn't know Gable but love him for this move.

[@ljmcgill]

This is consistent with Gable's documented support for Hattie McDaniel when she was discriminated against at the Atlanta premiere. Class guy. He was revered in his day as the King of Hollywood, not just for his box office popularity, but also for the respect he earned over three decades within the film community who knew him.

[@Medietos]

I am so glad to hear it; have been sad to learn that he and Leslie Howard chauvinistically demanded and got far more pay than the actresses. some may be reasonable, if his role and work was harder, if he were in more danger etc, but that big gaps were not called for. This helped me forgive.

[@12classics39]

He was an adulterer and a rapist. Loretta Young revealed that she did not consent when their daughter was conceived while he was married to another woman.

[@ER1CwC]

@@Medietos If I'm not mistaken, Leslie Howard really didn't want to do this film, and did it on the condition that he got to associate produce Intermezzo. He also apparently never bothered reading the book, and Selznick sarcastically gave him a copy midway through the shoot.

[@lizaltieri]

This is totally true. My very white mother from Santa Barbara confirmed that at that time from her childhood in the 1940s their area was segregated by black and white.

[@kimberlywhitehead22]

Gable looked out for his people.....#hewasblack

[@kimberlywhitehead22]

@Adam Smith he was passing for white.....lots of people in hollywood did it....carol channing did it....

[@peardropssmith1022]

@Adam Smith he was of black descendant! Do your research you might learn a thing or 2!

[@Jenjen-qc5eq]

Clark Gable had black and Native ancestry and he never hid it, as he got older you can see that he was not a hundred per cent white. 🙂🇬🇧☕

[@jeannieinabottle3381]

How in the world was this man alive during the making of GWTW!!!!???? He doesn’t look old enough!!!

[@CuracaoCow]

Lol Black don't crack lol

[@moviemaker60fps]

Jeannie, this was not filmed a year ago when you made your comment. According to the International Movie Data Base IMDB, it was aired in May 2006 which means the latest it was shot was 2005 maybe even 2004. If the man was 20 something in 1939 he would have been 70 something at the time of the filming. That is entirely possible.

[@shouryapathania6575]

@@moviemaker60fps thats so wrong he would have been around 85 during the shooting and the film would be nearly 70 years

[@moviemaker60fps]

@@shouryapathania6575 here is the information from WIKI Lennie Bluett Lennie Bluett was an American film actor, pianist, dancer and singer. His mother was a cook for Humphrey Bogart. At age 16, Bluett started playing the piano at Bogart's parties. He formed a harmonizing group with his friends called "Four Dreamers". Nat King Cole used to play with the band.Wikipedia Born: January 21, 1919, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Died: January 1, 2016, Los Angeles, California, U.S. The Airing was in 2006 when he was 87 the filming was a year or two before when he was, as you say, 85. He looks good for an 85 year old man.

[@tylerlasarow]

Yes Clark had some back ancestry but he was not African American American. He simply had mixed ancestry in his dna, that being said regardless of what you are you still need to treat people with respect.

[@m.layfette6249]

..."Judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

[@docsmithdc]

Clark Gable-"a man's man" always.

[@rockyracoon3233]

docsmithdc Gable was a Republican too!

[@DeplorableJaredBrodersen]

That was very cool that Clark Gable did that for them.

[@DorianYarg]

Thank you for this testimony. It's so important for me to know that not all withe people were racist back to those times.

[@TSR228]

Ok Clark!!!!!!!!! We see you playa. 🖤🖤🖤

[@brettduffy1992]

I guess Mickey is the only Survivor of this movie he lives near me in Southwest Florida in a town called Naples volunteers at the Physicians Regional Hospital

[@cjpreach]

Clark Gable was from Ohio, where Oberlein College was the first (previously) all-white school to admit blacks. (In 1835).

[@kevinw9073]

Well done! This only goes to show you, all "body functions" are alike and they see no color difference!

[@williamshelton4150]

Clark Gable wasn't present on the first day of filming because they filmed the opening scene at Tara, plus Victor Fleming wasn't the director until the filming was almost halfway over after George Cukor was fired.

[@b.radleypro.369]

Now I know why he threatened to quit, he was one of those actors who knew segregation was bullshit. God bless that man for standing up to those bastards

[@michaelsinclair3321]

FRANKLY MY DEAR I DON'T GIVE A RATS ASS...📣CUT!! 🎬 🎥..oh ok ok i got it now, good from the top,🎬 aaand action!FRANKLY MY DEAR I DON'T GIVE DAM!aaand cut!🎥 📣 GREAT!, THAT'S A WRAP!!👍, very outstanding and memorable motion picture indeed

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

Good 4 clark! 🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@phillip1516]

I understand that he thought of Clark Gable as noble. But those signs never should've been put there in the first place

[@tinkfeagans7174]

Were you alive back then? It was the law.

[@ddivincenzo1194]

@@tinkfeagans7174 Not everywhere.

[@JulieKernit1]

I have a great deal of respect with regards to Gable's stance on racism, but NOT with the way the individual treated "his daughter". Knowing that he would get away with it due to the fact that he was a male and doubled standards were the order of the day back then, the actor did what the VAST MAJORITY of males who had sex outside marriage did: Had his bit of fun, and then walked without so much as a backward glance. It didn't matter to them that in a BARE MINIMUM of 99.9% to 100% of cases women's reputations were TOTALLY RUINED under those circumstances!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Postal address: Julie Gill, Flat 15/4, 200 Lincoln Avenue, Knightswood, Glasgow, G13 3PS, Scotland, Britain (NOT u k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Due to the heinous acts the royal family are infamous for committing against other creatures, I RIGHTLY REFUSE to acknowledge their existence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Email: [e-mail] Mobile: [phone]

[@OlhaZubrenko]

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[@jodi2847]

WRONG. He didn't try to get away with anything, and clearly you didn't read his daughter Judy's book which chronicles how her mother Loretta Young and Clark met and fell in love on the set of "Call of the Wild" (1934). The circumstances which eventually led to Clark never knowing Judy was mostly the doings of MGM, his estranged wife Ria, and Loretta herself, who ended up putting their infant daughter in an orphanage and then later adopting her. Every party shares a good chunk of blame, except Judy.

[@JannettBauder-kj8yn]

💋💋🚬🚬

[@belenizquierdo2203]

Because he took a stand he is a black man Clark Gable is black he's considered Creole that's what they don't want to tell you Hollywood that's one of the biggest secrets

[@rockyracoon3233]

Did y'all know Gable was a staunch Republican too!

[@Luvie1980]

Your point???

[@rockyracoon3233]

@@Luvie1980 . Just stating a well known fact!

[@Brian-yw2yb]

Republicanism was different in the early 20th century.

[@abseconPC]

I believe Olivia de Havilland is the only actor still alive from the movie

[@Luvie1980]

Nope. She died in 2020. Now it’s Mickey Kuhn.

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

I think this is an apocryphal tale. If it's true, knowing how David O. Selznick was, he may have intentionally made it a joke, or to get people get a sense of how the slaves had separate quarters. You know, I visited the Deep South around Atlanta as a child, around the Civil Rights era, and a tour guide on the Stephen Foster plantation, I think, was showing us the grounds and we had a small tour group, 2 of which were a middle class black couple from somewhere north or from the West Coast, and the white female tour guide was very anxious to say the slave cabin we were looking at was NOT a slave cabin but a woodsman's cabin, or a gamekeeper's cabin, because she did not want to make the black couple feel uncomfortable. She only told us white folk that she changed the story so as not to hurt or offend the couple after they went outside. It could also be since she heard our flat California accent, she was determined to prove how open-minded and liberal the South was. I was too little to question her urgent fear of being seen as a racist Southerner, but then busing hadn't yet hit the West Coast... As a 3rd grader, I thought the couple might've liked knowing that, but this was clearly an early case of PC. My mom was an extreme Lefty at the time, but she had also been the wife of my daddy, a poor white Southerner. She was a bit divided. She got extremely vitriolic against black people once she worked for Muni. It turned out it was just one particular long-dead black co-worker who threw her under the bus (haw-haw) on a regular basis. Funny in retrospect. I think both women played against each other for reasons they both enjoyed. A rivalry similar to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis!

[@Malamockq]

There's no compelling reason to think this is an apocryphal tale especially when the man telling the story was involved directly in the story. There's also no compelling reason to believe it was a joke, other than your odd bias of not wanting to believe it. Sounds like you're yet another white guy who wants to portray the south as less racist than it actually was. Your little story is totally irrelevant to the point. Let me guess, you're a trump supporter right?

[@Medietos]

@@Malamockq Actions and behaviour is coloured by the time individuals live in. It is far too complex to live as a human being than to categorize people as just racist. May the one without sin throw the first stone. Lets repent , amend and improve, love and stop blaming one another. resent ment is a powerful poison passed on in generations unnecessarily. Let ús heal and stop.

[@Malamockq]

@@Medietos Moral relativism is bullshit. Wrong is wrong, irrespective of time. I also find it funny that a christian who regurgitates bible verses believes in moral relativism. I guess you aren't smart enough to see how that would contradict your superstitious beliefs. But you don't actually mean stop blaming one another, you really mean stop blaming white people. Sorry but no. The days where we pretend that white people did nothing wrong are over. Accept the crimes and the atrocities that whites committed. Revisionist history and telling people to not blame whites just makes your position look incredibly untenable and makes you look like a passive racist.

[@HotdogJuice]

Clark Gable was black

[@williamj.crofts41]

Dear Clark Gable ...... 🎉e buckeye buddy from Ohio.....Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland were.... And to her everlasting credit I found out that Margaret Mitchell sent money to Black universities in the south