GABLE CLARK: (1901-1960) Lot n° 671

GABLE CLARK: (1901-1960) American actor, Academy Award winner. An unusual vintage signed and inscribed 9 x 7 photograph of Gable standing outdoors in a full-length pose, most likely at a film studio or on location, alongside four other men comprising (from left to right) Bob Lander (a props and location manager), Frank Prehoda (1918-1970, make-up artist who worked with Gable on the American World War II film Run Silent, Rub Deep, 1958), Jesse ´Swede´ Munden (Gable´s personal wardrobe assistant) and Len Smith (a cameraman). Photograph by Bob Landry and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed ( ´To Frank from Clark´) by Gable in dark fountain pen ink to a light area at the head of the image. Also individually signed by each of the four other men in fountain pen inks across their images, two with their names alone and two also adding inscriptions in their hands. Some light surface and corner creasing, G