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Gable was born in Ohio in 1901, the son of a farmer who later became an oil driller. Gable went to work at a tire factory in Akron, Ohio, at age 14. He began attending theater and started working as a backstage runner in the evenings but moved to Oklahoma with his father in his late teens to drill for oil
He married the head of the troupe, who was 14 years his senior, in 1924, and the couple moved to Hollywood.
He was cast in several successful Broadway productions, played a lead role in the Los Angeles production of a hit play in 1930.
Gable's career flourished during when he won his greatest role, as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, in 1939.
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