Gable and Dillon traveled to Hollywood in 1924. Dillon became his manager and also his wife; she was 17 years his senior. He changed his stage name from W. C. Gable to Clark Gable and appeared as an extra in such silent films as Erich von Stroheim's "The Merry Widow" (1925), "The Plastic Age" (1925) starring Clara Bow, and "Forbidden Paradise" (1924) starring Pola Negri. He appeared in a series of two-reel comedies called "The Pacemakers" and in Fox's "The Johnstown Flood" (1926). He also appeared as a bit player in a series of shorts. However, he was not offered any major film roles, so he returned to the stage in "What Price Glory?" (1925).