Clark Gable
Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon
Marker Inscription
Clark Gable 1901-1960 began his acting career in the summer of 1922 at the Astoria Theatre located on this site, the building was destroyed by fire in December, 1922
The Story
On this Astoria site once stood the Astoria Theatre, where in the summer of 1922 a young Clark Gable took his first steps as a professional actor. The building burned that December, but the career it launched did not. Gable would rise to become one of Hollywood's most iconic leading men, forever remembered as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind.
Why it matters
It marks the humble beginning of one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age.
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