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film by Wellman [1931]

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In William Wellman: Films of the early to mid-1930s
…a gangster (Clark Gable) in Night Nurse (1931) and then played the lead in So Big (1932), a truncated version of Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. For the remainder of the early 1930s, Wellman made a series of melodramas—with some aerial adventure mixed in—before turning to…
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role of Garbo

In Clark Gable: Stardom: It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, and San Francisco
…as A Free Soul and Night Nurse (both 1931). This forceful persona—equal parts “man’s man” and “ladies’ man”—helped make him one of Hollywood’s top stars within a year.
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