Clark Gable Night" became the first movie to sweep all five of the major Academy Awards, with Gable winning for Best Actor. To Capra, Gable's character in the film most closely resembled his real personality: He returned to MGM a bigger star than ever. He received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Fletcher Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935). While filming "The Call of the Wild" in early 1935, Gable impregnated the film's lead actress, Loretta Young. Their daughter, Judy Lewis, was born in November 1935, but her parentage was kept hidden from the public. Gable made three pictures
Charles Laughton Wrath" (US title "The Beachcomber") (1938), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife, Elsa Lanchester, co-starred; "St. Martin's Lane" (US title "Sidewalks of London"), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison; and "Jamaica Inn", with Maureen O'Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish shipwreckers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s. The films produced were not commercially successful enough, and the company was saved from bankruptcy only when RKO Pictures offered Laughton the title role (Quasimodo)