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Josephine Dillon (January 26, 1884 – November 11, 1971) was an American stage and film actress and acting teacher. She was Clark Gable's patron, acting coach and first wife.
6 de sept. de 2018 · Josephine Dillon, best known as Clark Gable’s first wife, lived out her final days at Rockhaven Sanitarium in Montrose. Despite her label as Gable’s first wife, Dillon, who grew up in Los...
31 de mar. de 2023 · Older Love: Josephine Dillon. Josephine Dillon was 15 years Gable's senior and was an experienced stage director.
Josephine Dillon (1924-1930) Drama and voice coach teacher, she convinced Gable to use his middle name of Clark for his acting career. She was 14 years his senior.
Josephine Dillon was “a woman of ambiguous sexuality.” She presented Gable to Hollywood agents in the early 1920s. Although Gable and Dillon were married shortly after their arrival in Hollywood, it was a marriage of convenience, in which Dillon ignored Gable’s affairs while serving as his sugar momma.
12 de nov. de 1971 · LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11 (AP) —Josephine Dillon, the first of five wives of Clark Gable, the late screen actor, died here today in a sanitarium at the age of 87. Miss Dillon, who was an actress and...
Life After Clark. Josephine spent the remainder of her life as a poor drama coach. Late in her life, she wrote a (still unpublished) manuscript detailing her marriage to Clark, calling him “Mark” and herself “Julia”, but it was obvious whom the characters were meant to be.
