30 Jun Somewhere I’ll Find You
Somewhere I’ll Find You, WWII movie starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner
(1942) I wanted to abandon this movie after the first fifteen minutes due to Clark Gable’s ridiculous not-funny-to-me antics. Then I did a little homework at the Turner Classic Movies site.
Three days into filming, in January of 1942, Clark Gable’s wife Carole Lombard was killed in a plane crash. She was on a war bond tour. Gable did finish the movie, but it was the last one he would make before entering the US Army Air Corps.
Lana Turner looked like a teenager (she was 22) who had a crush on someone old enough to be her father. (He was, at 41.) Actually Turner and Gable were a popular couple with American audiences, and after the war they joined up again to make a movie I liked better, “Homecoming.”
Van Johnson had a small uncredited role.
Clark Gable, Robert Sterling, and Lana Turner all played war correspondents for a New York newspaper whose editor really didn’t want to print any hard core facts about the impending crisis with Japan. They end up in Manila, typing a story about the fall of Bataan. I couldn’t help but wonder if they ever made it out.
Somewhere I’ll Find You at amazon.com
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