Clark Gable was a performer.
Boom Town is a 1940 American adventure film starring Clark Gable , Spencer Tracy , Claudette Colbert , and Hedy Lamarr , and directed by Jack Conway . Clark Gable . Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) , and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) and for his arguably best-known role as Rhett Butler in the epic Civil War drama Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) . The Misfits is a 1961 American drama film written by Arthur Miller , directed by John Huston , and starring Clark Gable , Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift .