``Clark Gable: The Signature Collection'' -- Six New-to-DVD Titles Arrive June 20 from Warner Home Video.BURBANK, Calif. -- On June 20, Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. rolls out the red carpet for one of the movie industry's biggest box-office stars with the release of "Clark Gable: The Signature Collection," boasting the DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. debut of six of his films -- "Boom Town," "China Seas," "Dancing Lady," "Mogambo," "San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden " and "Wife vs. Secretary." The Collection also features the documentary profile "Clark Gable: Tall, Dark & Handsome," hosted by Liam Neeson, plus vintage featurettes and musical shorts. The six-film, six-disc collection will sell for $59.92 SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. . All titles will be available individually for $19.97 SRP with Mogambo available for $14.97 SRP. Named as the seventh greatest actor on the AFI's List of "50 Greatest Screen Legends," Clark Gable reigned supreme as a screen icon during the 1930's and 40's. Gable's career spanned five decades, during which he appeared in 75 feature films. Born William Clark Gable in 1901, Gable came to Hollywood in 1924 and started his career as an extra and bit player in silent films. In 1930, he became a contract player for MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. and landed his first "talkie talk·ie n. Informal A movie with a sound track. talkie Noun Informal an early film with a soundtrack Noun 1. " role as the villain in the western "The Painted Desert." The studio received so much fan mail they were forced to take notice and Gable was put to work regularly as a supporting actor. His role in "A Free Soul," in which he played a gangster, elevated him to leading man status. Throughout most of the 1930s and '40s, he was one of the studio's biggest box-office stars, earning the nickname "King of Hollywood." It wasn't until MGM loaned him to Columbia, that Gable won his first Academy Award (R) for "It Happened One Night." Gable would ultimately earn two more Oscar nominations ("Gone with the Wind" and "Mutiny on the Bounty Mutiny on the Bounty activities of mutineers, Captain Bligh, island wanderings (1789). [Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty] See : Rebellion "). Gable took a three-year break from making movies after his third wife, actress Carol Lombard, died in a plane crash. To honor her memory, he joined the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, earning both the Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross for his service. "The Misfits," co-starring Marilyn Monroe, was the last film he completed before he died in 1960. Note to Editors: E-mail requests for materials karenpenhale@cs-pr.com fax 818-260-0707. Art can be downloaded at www.whvdirect.com. |
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