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Behind the legendary swagger of Clark Gable, the ""King of Hollywood,"" lay a man shattered by a grief he was forbidden to show. In 1942, a coin toss and a plane crash on a snowy Nevada mountain took the life of his wife, Carole Lombard, and ended the golden age of their romance. But the tragedy didn't end with the crash.
This documentary peels back the layers of MGM's ruthless ""fixer"" machinery, revealing how the studio monetized Gable's mourning, pushed him into a suicidal war enlistment, and orchestrated a cover-up that erased his own flesh and blood from history. From the secret daughter he abandoned to save his career to the posthumous son crushed by his legacy, discover the heartbreaking reality of a man who lived as an icon but died as a ghost.
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