Clark Gable a real alcoholic drink during the scene in which they were supposed to be celebrating the birth of Scarlett and Rhett's daughter. Clark Gable almost walked off the set of "Gone With the Wind" when he discovered the studio facilities were segregated and were designated "White" and "Colored". Gable got on the phone with the film's director, Victor Fleming, who called the prop master and told him, "If you don't get those signs down, you won’t get your Rhett Butler." The signs were taken down immediately. Gable tried to boycott the premiere of "Gone with the Wind" in Atlanta, Georgia,
Clark Gable to attempt a film career. In 1924, with Dillon's financing, they went to Hollywood, where she became Gable's manager and first wife. He changed his stage name from W. C. Gable to Clark Gable. He found work as an extra in such silent films as Erich von Stroheim's "The Merry Widow" (1925), "The Plastic Age" (1925), which starred Clara Bow, "Forbidden Paradise" (1924), starring Pola Negri, plus a series of two-reel comedies called "The Pacemakers". He appeared as an extra in Fox's "The Johnstown Flood" (1926). Seventeen-year-old Carole Lombard, later his third wife, appeared as an extra in that film