Idiot's Delight (film) Idiot's Delight (film) Idiot's Delight is a 1939 MGM comedy-drama with a screenplay adapted by Robert E. Sherwood from his 1936 Pulitzer-Prize-winning play of the same name. The movie showcases Clark Gable, in the same year that he played Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind", and Norma Shearer in the declining phase of her career. Although not a musical, it is notable as the only film where Gable sings and dances, performing "Puttin' on the Ritz" by Irving Berlin. Harry Van (Clark Gable), an American World War I veteran, tries to reenter show biz and ends up in a
Clark Gable death, Kay Gable said, "It wasn't the physical exertion that killed him. It was the horrible tension, the eternal waiting, waiting, waiting. He waited around forever, for everybody. He'd get so angry that he'd just go ahead and do anything to keep occupied." Monroe said that she and Kay had become close during the filming and would refer to Clark as "Our Man", while Arthur Miller, observing Gable on location, noted, "No hint of affront ever showed on his face". On March 20, 1961, Kay Gable gave birth to Gable's only son, John Clark Gable, at the same hospital in