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克拉克?盖博（中） 　　Lombard, a party girl25 who favored low-cut26 silk dresses,bent herself around sideways to conform to27 him, says actor Robert Stack, who was a good friend of the actresss, She went duck hunting and dressed like a ragamuffin. Shed stand around in the rain for the guy. Her friend Margaret Tallichet, wife of the director William Wyler,watched her reel Gable in. Carole was madly in love with him, she said, When she would zero in on28 something, that was it, and she wanted this relationship. 　　 She was also smart enough to know how to keep it going. After one quarrel, Lombard sent Gable a pair of live doves as a peace offering, a heart-melting gesture she would repeat over the years. Yet this king wouldnt have loved an obsequious subject, and Carole was no pushover. At one point during their courtship, disturbed by rumors that Gables current costar had designs on29 him, she stormed onto the film set and screamed at the director, Get her out of your picture or Ill take Gable out of it! The offending ingenue disappeared, and Gable, long known for his womanizing, bragged afterward about his beloveds pluck30. He absolutely adored her, says Stack. 　　By 1937, the duo were inseparable enough to be cited as one of Hollywoods Unmarried Husbands and Wives in an article in the movie magazine Photoplay31. The exposure hastened Gables divorce from the reluctant Ria, who walked off32 with a sizable settlement. Free at last,Clark and Carole wed in a tiny ceremony on March 29, 1939--the first day Gable had off from his job playing Rhett in Gone With The Wind. 　　Their careers had never been in higher gear, but Gable hated the Hollywood partying that went with fame,so the couple made their home in an elaborately restored farmhouse in then-rural Encino, Calif. There, among horses, dogs, chickens and Gables expanding gun collection, the newly weds--who called each other Ma and Pa--lived simply,giving occasional small dinner parties for friends and even attempting to sell e