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Adolf Hitler's favourite actor was born in Cadiz, Ohio in 1901. Gable abandoned his oil-driller father at the age of 21 and sought his fortune in the theatre. It took him ten years, during which he married and divorced a drama teacher and was rejected by studios for having big ears, to land a decent Hollywood role, in The Painted Desert. But in 1931 he shot 12 films and by the end of the year he was a rising star. Frank Capra's surprise hit It Happened One Night won Gable an Oscar, and in 1939 he starred in a little film called Gone With The Wind. Never the same after serving in the Second World War, he died in 1960.
