Studio publicists photographed Clark Gable driving a tractor and mending fences at his ranch in Encino, California. For reporters, he milked a cow, and he helped Carole Lombard gather eggs, according to Cinema Scholars.
Lombard put up the $50,000 for the 20-acre property, which had belonged to director Raoul Walsh, because Gable was waiting on his divorce settlement, according to Dear Mr. Gable. The couple married in March 1939 and moved in that summer, the blog says.
The grounds had citrus groves, stables, a cow barn and a pigsty, Cinema Scholars reports. Lombard’s bathroom was the exception to the rustic style, with white-marble walls, wraparound mirrors, and crystal and silver fixtures. Tabloids called the house “The House of Two Gables,” according to I Am Not a Stalker.
Lombard died in early 1942. Gable tried to sell the ranch afterward but kept it, Dear Mr. Gable says, and he lived there until his death in 1960. His widow, Kay Williams, stayed until 1973, per Cinema Scholars.
Developers took over the land, and the ranch was subdivided into the Clark Gable Ranch Estates in 1974, according to LA Street Names. Two of the streets, Tara Drive and Ashley Oaks, are named after Gone with the Wind.
The old house itself sold in October 1977 for $587,500, 38 years after Gable and Lombard moved in, I Am Not a Stalker reports. The lot is now about 1.17 acres, according to the blog’s Zillow figures.
Gable’s ranch was not the only star property with a farm side. Johnny Cash fell for a 107-acre Tennessee farm in 1972, and Loretta Lynn bought a Tennessee house in 1966 and got an entire town with it.
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