Upon their return to California after their honeymoon, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were greeted by Clark’s new mother-in-law, Elizabeth Peters. Details about their honeymoon - or apparent lack of one - as reported by various sources: Clark Gable himself said, “We were married at three-thirty that afternoon and left at five-thirty, getting home the next morning at three. Carole’s mother was there, all excited, which kept us up till five. Finally we got to sleep, only to be awakened at nine to discover forty cameraman, three newsreel men and twenty reporters waiting out in the front yard to interview us.” (Photoplay, Vivien Leigh, Rhett Butler and I, Feb. 1940) TIME Magazine reported: “Immediately after the ceremony, Mr. & Mrs. Gable started back to Hollywood. They told reporters they would not take a honeymoon until Gable was through making Gone With the Wind, and Lombard her next picture, Memory of Love, for RKO.” (TIME, Boy Meets Girl, April 10, 1939) “Gable got a day off. He and Carole drove to Kingman, Ariz., got married and drove back that night.” (St.Petersburg Times, Hollywood Can’t Find Time For Honeymoons, May 28, 1939) And they didn’t stop to “freshin up” or “change clothes” there either. “After the ceremony the married couple went to the parish house to change clothes and spend time visiting.”(Kingman Daily Miner, March 29,1939)
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