American actor Clark Gable was BOTD in 1901. Born and raised in Cadiz, Ohio, he began his Hollywood career in the 1920s as an extra in silent films. He shot to stardom in Dance, Fools, Dance and Red Dust, and won an Oscar for the romantic comedy It Happened One Night, cementing his reputation as a romantic lead. He also had memorable on-screen partnerships with Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer and Ava Gardner. His best-known performance is as Rhett Butler, the charming and amoral philanderer in Gone With the Wind, whose love-hate relationship with Scarlett O’Hara formed the cornerstone of the four-hour epic. Gable’s onscreen chemistry with co-star Vivien Leigh became one of the most celebrated film romances of all time. After serving during World War Two, he resumed his film career, working steadily but never recapturing the mega-wattage of his early celebrity. Married five times and with two children, Gable was one of Hollywood’s most notorious womanisers. He also appears to have shagged his way to success, becoming the “kept man” of wealthy older women, and occasionally attending men-only pool parties to gain favour with powerful gay men. Gable reputedly had director George Cukor fired from Gone With the Wind over concerns that Cukor would spill the beans on Gable’s gay past, including an affair with actor William Haines. Another badly-kept Hollywood secret was the diminutive size of Gable’s penis. Ex-wife Carol Lombard joked “If his cock was one inch shorter, they’d be calling him “the Queen of Hollywood”, adding that he was “the worst lay in town.” His ex-lover Tallulah Bankhead also commented “If his dick was one inch shorter, his name would be Betty Grable, not Clark Gable.” He died in 1961 aged 59, shortly after completing his final film The Misfits with Marilyn Monroe.