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Josephine Dillon (January 26, 1884 [1] [2] – November 11, 1971) was an American stage and film actress and acting teacher. She was Clark Gable 's patron, acting coach and first wife. Early years and education. Born in Denver, Colorado, Dillon was one of six children of Judge Henry Clay Dillon.
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...
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.
A lady named Franz Dorfler was responsible for getting Clark Gable his first acting job, but he soon ditched her for acting teacher Josephine Dillon. Jo was 41, plain and matronly, but she took the 23 year-old aspiring young actor to Hollywood, and in 1924 they married.
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. Gable at the time of his marriage to Josephine Dillon, 1926. Ria Langham (1931-1939)
Drama Coach, Actress. The first wife of Clark Gable. The daughter of prominent attorney Henry Clay Dillon, she was born in Denver and raised in Long Beach, California. After graduating from Stanford University in 1908, she pursued an unremarkable stage career and then set up an acting studio in Portland, ...
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...
