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
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