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A December to remember

...have grave consequences.Each chapter in the book deals with a single day of December 1941. We go to the movies with Clark Gable and Betty Grable, view the "cafe society" of New York, and listen to radio stars like Jack Benny and Walter Winchell...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-12-06/december-remember
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Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2011

...the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Nov. 25. Judy Lewis, 76. Conceived out of wedlock by movie stars Clark Gable and Loretta Young while they filmed "Call of the Wild" in the 1930s, for years one of the best kept secrets in Hollywood...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-12-16/final-goodbye-roll-call-some-who-die
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Roscoe Fawcett dies at 86

...the Brainerd lakes area died Thursday. Roscoe Fawcett, 86, lived life to the fullest. He dated Elizabeth Taylor. Clark Gable, Cary Grant and Ted Williams were in his company many times. He toured Africa, bringing home many artifacts that...

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Mills family matriarch Helen Mills dies at 100

...and, with her husband, was invited to dinner parties with movie stars at Breezy Point. She sat with Gene Autry, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, and Delores Del Rio among others. She was considered a talented painter with her work displayed...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/062601/new_0626010003.shtml
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'Gone with the Wind' withstands the test of time

...the Greatest American Movies! click to vote on the Greatest Kids Movies! The casting was perfection. Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia De Havilland, Leslie Howard and Hattie McDaniel. Though the actors would appear in many more films, each...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/040106/ent_20060401028.shtml
Entertainment
Breezy Point Resort has a colorful history

...70-feet long. The building included bowling alleys, a billiard parlor and beauty shop. - Resort guests included Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Tom Mix and Jack Dempsey. - Headliners included Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Count Bassie...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/091507/bus_20070915007.shtml
Business
Roscoe Fawcett enjoys a lifetime of great memories

...memory room where he keeps memorabilia from his many years of meeting people like Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox and Clark Gable and Cary Grant of the silver screen. "Elizabeth Taylor was my date once," Fawcett said "I didn't bring her home...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/061799/new_0617990024.shtml
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Time-share lawsuits tentatively resolved at Breezy Point resort

...lawsuits were dropped, Yax said. Breezy Point was founded in the 1920s and was once a playground for such movie stars as Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. It has survived Prohibition, gambling raids, fires and bankruptcy. It has convention facilities...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/082200/new_0822000030.shtml
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Loretta Young posthumously admits that Clark Gable fathered her child

...in 1935 with her leading man, Clark Gable. Because Young was unmarried at...everything about you. You're Clark Gable's daughter.' That's the first...to say to her, 'Is my father Clark Gable?' She said yes, and then we...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/111600/tem_1116000017.shtml
Entertainment
Priestley was no part-time racer

...to race cars (though he probably was the first to call a race on TV, having worked for ABC Sports as an analyst). Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy dabbled in racing, and Newman was one of the first big stars to pursue it seriously. Newman won...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/081502/rac_0815020004.shtml
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