Personal check, 8.5 x 3.25, filled out in type and signed by Clark Gable, payable to Jean Garceau for $500, November 21, 1949. Endorsed on the reverse by Garceau. In fine condition.
Jean Garceau was Gable’s private secretary and business manager. In 1936, while working for Carole Lombard’s agent Myron Selznick, Garceau met Lombard and became her exclusive agent. Lombard was the highest-paid star in Hollywood when she married Clark Gable in 1939, and Garceau became his secretary. He stayed with Gable for almost 20 years after Lombard’s tragic death at age 33 in a plane crash, remaining an integral part of his life through his war service, his film career’s ups and downs, and his marriages to Lady Sylvia Ashley and Kay Spreckles Gable.
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