Band of Angels melodrama, directed by Raoul Walsh, bears some thematic resemblance to 'Gone With the Wind', in dealing with issues of race and miscegenation, set against the backdrop of the Civil War." Band of Angels Band of Angels is a 1957 romantic drama film set in the American South before and during the American Civil War, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. It starred Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo and Sidney Poitier. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh. Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is the privileged daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner. However, after
Clark Gable Lewis, and his wife, Linda Lewis, publicly disclosed that Young had told them in 1998 that she had conceived Judy Lewis when Clark Gable raped her. In 1933, Gable was initiated to the Scottish Rite Freemasonry at the Beverly Hills Lodge No.528 CA. In a photo essay of Hollywood film stars, "Life" magazine called Gable, "All man... and then some". Doris Day summed up Gable's unique personality: "He was as masculine as any man I've ever known, and as much a little boy as a grown man could be – it was this combination that had such a devastating effect