tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post7587303091348195328..comments2024-03-22T14:34:39.101-04:00Comments on MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema: PRE-CODE PARADE: Gables of 1931Samuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-5279446539221563092013-08-29T04:52:38.990-04:002013-08-29T04:52:38.990-04:00I am just glad I came across your site. After year...I am just glad I came across your site. After years of focusing on Asian films, I am trying to get back to my first love, the films of the 30's through the 50's and your site has already given me a number of ideas about films I want to track down and is very informative. Thanks. I am sure Gable has his fans but I sure never come across them. Actors like Stewart, Grant, Cooper and Bogart just seem to have grown in stature while Gable has not.Brian Naashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12798896753133473887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-82481521299595297452013-08-27T14:58:55.161-04:002013-08-27T14:58:55.161-04:00Thanks for writing, Brian. I get what you're s...Thanks for writing, Brian. I get what you're saying about Gable, and I wonder whether his stardom hasn't aged well because he doesn't really have an existential role that's <i>about</i> him or his persona. He's identified with his leading ladies, from Crawford to Vivien Leigh to Marilyn Monroe -- or with Carole Lombard in real life -- but rarely seems like the "man alone" who holds people's interest today. I bet he still has fans, though, and I hope they'll speak up for him.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-40025490886558315982013-08-27T12:38:01.617-04:002013-08-27T12:38:01.617-04:00Thanks very much for the write-up. Very interestin...Thanks very much for the write-up. Very interesting. For reasons that I have never quite figured out I have never warmed up to Gable, not in GWTW, It Happened One Night or later films like It Happened in Naples. He has always left me cold. Such a blowhard. I could be wrong but I get the sense that is true of much of the current audience. While so many of the male stars still get a lot of love I rarely see anyone having much to say about Gable anymore and as you say he was the King for a long time. Thanks again.Brian Naashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12798896753133473887noreply@blogger.com