Speaker 1: Why Uzzy Media productions. You know, we just had the
Speaker 1: revolutionary idea of working for a magazine we read. The
Speaker 1: dream was relatively small. I just wanted to do a
Speaker 1: magazine that I believed in and it would be successful
Speaker 1: enough so I could keep doing it. And what came
Speaker 1: afterwards I could not have imagined. That is what I
Speaker 1: would like to accomplish. I would like to be a
Speaker 1: good actress. Nineteen year old Norma Jean Doherty drove her
Speaker 1: Ford coupe from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Nevada, in
Speaker 1: the summer of nineteen forty six. She went to obtain
Speaker 1: a divorce from her first husband. He didn't support her
Speaker 1: career and she had no chance of making it in
Speaker 1: Hollywood as a married starlet. Six weeks later, with a
Speaker 1: quickie Nevada divorce in hand, she was a free woman.
Speaker 1: Norma Jean became Hollywood's Marilyn mone and years later she
Speaker 1: returned to Nevada to start in a movie called The Misfits.
Speaker 1: It was the last picture she completed before her death.
Speaker 1: She played a woman who, like her younger self, comes
Speaker 1: to Nevada for a divorce. Well, cheer up, I will.
Speaker 1: I just hate to fight with anybody. When you win,
Speaker 1: you lose, you know in your heart. The Misfits was
Speaker 1: set against the backdrop of what some historians called the
Speaker 1: Golden Age of divorce. In the center of that golden
Speaker 1: age was the state of Nevada. Well is to Nevada.
Speaker 1: Believe it state, the state, believe it state. You got money,
Speaker 1: you want to gamble, Leave it here. You got a
Speaker 1: wife you want to get rid of. Get rid of
Speaker 1: her here, extra adam bomb. You don't need blow it
Speaker 1: up here. Nobody's gonna mind. In the slightest Marilyn Monroe
Speaker 1: was just one of thousands of women who traveled to
Speaker 1: the leave it state to take advantage of its liberal
Speaker 1: divorce laws between nineteen thirty and nineteen seventy. Without that
Speaker 1: Nevada divorce, Monroe might never have become a star. Many
Speaker 1: came to Nevada, like Monroe, obtained more than just a
Speaker 1: decree from the courthouse. They won something far more valuable,
Speaker 1: their freedom Rush Nevada. I'm Sean Braswell, and this is
Speaker 1: the Thread. This season. On the Thread, we are traveling
Speaker 1: through history again, turning the clock back one story at
Speaker 1: a time to reveal the surprising series of events behind
Speaker 1: a modern icon, the feminist writer and activist Gloria Steinham.
Speaker 1: If you're joining us for the first time, we encourage
Speaker 1: you to go back and listen to episode one. So far,
Speaker 1: our journey has taken us through the lives of three
Speaker 1: American legends. We've been to the Playboy Club in New
Speaker 1: York City, where Gloria Steinham stent as an undercover bunny
Speaker 1: helped ignite her career as a leader in the women's movement.
Speaker 1: We peeked behind the walls of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's
Speaker 1: mansion and empire to learn how he got his start.
Speaker 1: And we ran with the wolves in Hollywood alongside the
Speaker 1: unforgettable woman whose nude photograph helped launch Playboy, Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1: Today we hear about the place that set Monroe on
Speaker 1: her path to stardom. It is said that one out
Speaker 1: of every five or six marriages and the United States
Speaker 1: ends in divorce, and the mecca of the disillusion bride
Speaker 1: is Renal, the gay little metropolis of Nevada. In the
Speaker 1: nineteen twenties and thirties, Reno, Nevada became known as the
Speaker 1: divorce capital of the world. The Immortal wedding marches of
Speaker 1: Wagner and Mendelssohn become sadly distorted here in the arts
Speaker 1: of the countless Brides and common Gold. Freed of their
Speaker 1: marriagal obligations would completely disillusion and their dreams of conjugal felicity.
Speaker 1: Why did so many people come to Reno for a divorce, Well,
Speaker 1: for starters, it was not that easy to end the marriage,
Speaker 1: and most other states at the time there were long
Speaker 1: waiting periods in very few grounds for divorce. If you
Speaker 1: wanted a divorce in New York, for example, you had
Speaker 1: to prove that your spouse had committed adultery, which usually
Speaker 1: meant hiring a private investigator. The migratory divorce trade or
Speaker 1: people traveling to get a divorce, arose to give divorce
Speaker 1: seekers an easier path. But the shift to easier divorces
Speaker 1: was prompted by more than restrictive laws. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of change going on in society. This is Mela Harman,
Speaker 1: an expert on Nevada divorce and a former curator of
Speaker 1: history at the Nevada Historical Society. Families were undergoing change.
Speaker 1: There was talk about birth control, women's suffrage, all sorts
Speaker 1: of changes in society. But by the twentieth century things
Speaker 1: were really changing and it just happened to land on
Speaker 1: Nevada's doorstep. It helped that Nevada put out a big
Speaker 1: welcome mat one that at first was not designed with
Speaker 1: divorce seekers in mind. The period of time required to
Speaker 1: become a bona fide citizen, which meant you could file
Speaker 1: a lawsuit, which a divorce is, was six months, which
Speaker 1: was relatively short. And the reason it was short was
Speaker 1: Nevada was this little, tiny state. It didn't have a
Speaker 1: whole lot going on. It was trying to attract a population.
Speaker 1: The state attracted not only new residents but also wealthy
Speaker 1: outsiders who wanted a more convenient end to their inconvenient marriages.
Speaker 1: And what really put Reno on the divorce map was
Speaker 1: a single, unhappy couple, a very rich and well known one.
Speaker 1: In nineteen o five, the wife of William Corey, who
Speaker 1: was the president of the United States Steel Corporation, which
Speaker 1: would sort of be the equivalent of somebody like Bill Gates.
Speaker 1: His wife came here and divorced him. She claimed that
Speaker 1: Corey had deserted her for a showgirl, and that one
Speaker 1: really hit the newspapers and all of a sudden, people
Speaker 1: are going, what Reno, What is this all about? And
Speaker 1: by nineteen o nine, a national magazine declared Reno the
Speaker 1: new Divorce head Corps DS of the United States. Nevada's
Speaker 1: new cottage industry was now open for business. This was
Speaker 1: an economic boon for Nevada, which had very little in
Speaker 1: the way of industry. Its main economic drivers were agriculture
Speaker 1: and mining, which were boom and bust industries. Then other
Speaker 1: states like Idaho and Arkansas liberalized their divorce laws, and
Speaker 1: soon Nevada was losing business. And then things went from
Speaker 1: bad to worse with the Great Depression. So leaders in
Speaker 1: Nevada took some bold action. The state legislatures legalized gambling
Speaker 1: in n It also lowered the residency requirement for getting
Speaker 1: a divorce in the state to just six weeks, by
Speaker 1: far the shortest in the nation. No other state in
Speaker 1: the United States was willing to go that far. To
Speaker 1: remain competitive, Nevada also tried to make divorce as painless
Speaker 1: as possible. The new law ensued that divorce complaints could
Speaker 1: be done in general terms without the petitioner having to
Speaker 1: air any detailed or potentially embarrassing grievances. All proceedings took
Speaker 1: place behind closed doors and all records were sealed. Nine
Speaker 1: legal grounds for divorce were recognized. They included impotency, adultery, desertion, neglect,
Speaker 1: habitual drunkenness, and mental cruelty Mela Harmon again, So it's
Speaker 1: pretty wide array of possibility. So if you couldn't fit
Speaker 1: your issue into one of those, you probably didn't deserve
Speaker 1: a divorce. The most popular ground was mental cruelty, which
Speaker 1: could cover a host of things. Harmon came across one
Speaker 1: woman who saw a divorce because her husband criticized her
Speaker 1: driving too much. Thanks to such leniency, however, Nevada was
Speaker 1: back in business. Oh well, I guess divorce ain't much
Speaker 1: more in the matter of traveling, you check out of
Speaker 1: the state of matrimony and land in the state of Nevada.
Speaker 1: That's a taxi driver welcoming a divorce seeker. In the
Speaker 1: ninety eight film Charlie Chan and Rena, people poured into
Speaker 1: the city after the law was enacted. Some were forced
Speaker 1: to camp on the city's river banks. Reno would become
Speaker 1: home to more than one divorce lawyers and raking millions
Speaker 1: of dollars per year, and by gosh, it's the one
Speaker 1: business that even the depression don't hit. How you take
Speaker 1: week for instance, or cotton? How much bother to the hotel? Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, no matter how soon I get you there, lady,
Speaker 1: it still takes six weeks. Well. The people who came
Speaker 1: to Nevada for a divorce were about as diverse a
Speaker 1: lot as you could imagine, from the very poor to
Speaker 1: the very very ultra rich and everything in between. Most
Speaker 1: of war seekers were women, and most arrived in Reno
Speaker 1: by train. The Transcontinental Railroad went right through the city.
Speaker 1: The journey itself was a life changing experience for many
Speaker 1: Mela Harmon. I mean, you can imagine someone coming from
Speaker 1: say the East coast, who had never been to the
Speaker 1: West couldn't imagine the vastness of nothingness that exists. It
Speaker 1: must have been quite a shock to the system. Locals
Speaker 1: called the train the Divorcee Special. It arrived at Reno's
Speaker 1: little yellow station. The divorce seekers were often met by
Speaker 1: their Reno lawyers. This is Sandra McGee, co author of
Speaker 1: The Divorce Seekers. And for six weeks these people spent
Speaker 1: their money in Reno. They spent it on accommodations, on
Speaker 1: food on hairdressers, laundry taxis. Many of them bought western wear,
Speaker 1: which they probably never wore once they went home, and
Speaker 1: of course they also drank and gambled. Quite a lot
Speaker 1: could happen in six weeks, and the VADA made sure
Speaker 1: that those undergoing what came to be known as a
Speaker 1: renovation had no shortage of options for passing the top. Yes,
Speaker 1: sir is the biggest little city in the world, and
Speaker 1: by gosh, is the liveliest. I guess these divorces figured
Speaker 1: that as long as they're changing partners, that might just
Speaker 1: as well danced. Well. They didn't actually have much choice
Speaker 1: the va the law demanded the divorce seekers waited out
Speaker 1: the entire six week period in the state. So now
Speaker 1: Reno had all these temporary residents in town who needed
Speaker 1: a place to stay. The locals were more than willing
Speaker 1: to accommodate. Again Mela Harmon, people would do all sorts
Speaker 1: of things like turn their homes into boarding houses. There
Speaker 1: were instances where people would rent out bedrooms in their
Speaker 1: private homes, you know, moved the kid onto the couch
Speaker 1: while someone was living in their bedroom. But for those
Speaker 1: with a little more money to spend than to hankering
Speaker 1: to try the true Western lifestyle. The destination of choice
Speaker 1: was the dude ranch or divorce ranch as they soon
Speaker 1: became known. Divorce ranches came in all sizes. The more
Speaker 1: expensive ranches, like the Flying m E Ranch outside of Reno,
Speaker 1: offered large, comfortable guest rooms in a modern ranch house.
Speaker 1: The divorce ranches were very interesting because, obviously being a
Speaker 1: ranch and being in a remote area, there were lots
Speaker 1: of interesting outdoor things for people to do. Many of
Speaker 1: them had swimming pools, um Most of them had a
Speaker 1: resident cowboy or two or three who would be more
Speaker 1: or less responsible for entertaining the divorce seekers staying there.
Speaker 1: They'd organize horseback riding trips, fishing trips, excursions into town
Speaker 1: for shopping. There was always a cocktail hour every evening.
Speaker 1: And what went on after that, I can only imagine.
Speaker 1: I'm Bill McGee, famous cowboy from Montana. I'm only joking
Speaker 1: a little bit here, but I spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time with the various guests at the Flying Mmy and
Speaker 1: loved a lot of them. Bill McGee co wrote the
Speaker 1: book The Divorce Seekers with his wife Sandra, who you
Speaker 1: heard earlier. McGee is now in his nine and possibly
Speaker 1: the last living Nevada dude wrangler. He came to Reno
Speaker 1: and the Flying Emmy Ranch during the nineteen forties. A
Speaker 1: lot of guys that were very good cowboys grew up
Speaker 1: on a ranch and knew all about ranching and horses
Speaker 1: and cattle. They could not cut it as a as
Speaker 1: a dude wrangler, because, well, the dude dranger you have
Speaker 1: to have all those cowboys kills, but you also had
Speaker 1: to have the skills with people. Dude wranglers were part ambassador,
Speaker 1: part tour guide, part writing instructor, part therapist, and sometimes
Speaker 1: part casanova. Six weeks in a strange new place with
Speaker 1: its hunky help was a period of liberation and exploration
Speaker 1: for many of the female divorce seekers who came to
Speaker 1: Reno and its ranches. One of them was the Lazy
Speaker 1: Me Ranch. Its nickname was Layy Easy for the devoted
Speaker 1: services of its staff. That's one reason dude wrangler was
Speaker 1: considered the best job in Reno, something that Bill McGee
Speaker 1: found doubt on his very first night at the Flying
Speaker 1: Emmy Ranch. The first damn night on there, I had
Speaker 1: taken this lady for a ride up to Little Valley.
Speaker 1: She was nice. She was an attorney actually from New
Speaker 1: York City, and I didn't think anything of it. The
Speaker 1: Flying Emmy's longtime owner, Emmy would discouraged cowboys from fraternizing
Speaker 1: with guests. But later that night, after dinner and I'm
Speaker 1: over in my bunkhouse getting ready to go to bed,
Speaker 1: this lady knocks on the door, and it was sort
Speaker 1: of like, what am I gonna do? Now? Am I
Speaker 1: gonna tell her she can't come in because Emmy's got
Speaker 1: a rule? Hell no. The amorous encounter would not be
Speaker 1: McGee's last. It happened with quite quite a frequency. Part
Speaker 1: of my job was taking him into Carson City or
Speaker 1: up to Virginia City or somewhere to drink after dinner
Speaker 1: at night, and that was a part of my job.
Speaker 1: I got to know all these ladies. It's part of
Speaker 1: my job. Thanks to folks like Bill and diversions like writing, dancing, gambling,
Speaker 1: and sightseeing. Most of the women found it easy to
Speaker 1: forget their troubles in Reno. But of course, each divorce
Speaker 1: seekers stay always came to an end at the same place.
Speaker 1: The Washoe County Courthouse became known as the House of
Speaker 1: Divide for obvious reasons. The divorce seekers were required to
Speaker 1: appear in court at the end of their six week
Speaker 1: waiting period. You didn't have to prove anything, uh, you
Speaker 1: just told your story and then you'd get your decree
Speaker 1: and typically it was over within five minutes. Each divorce
Speaker 1: also had to promise the court that they intended to
Speaker 1: live in Nevada for the foreseeable future. Nobody, including the judge,
Speaker 1: really expected them to do so. Most took the first
Speaker 1: train out of town, but some some had other business
Speaker 1: at the courthouse. This is so drew McGhee again. In fact,
Speaker 1: it wasn't at all unusual for a woman, mostly a woman,
Speaker 1: or a man to get divorced, walk out into the
Speaker 1: courtroom hall, walked down a few steps to another courtroom,
Speaker 1: and get married, all within an hour. Many divorce seekers
Speaker 1: who got remarried and reno brought their new spouse with them.
Speaker 1: They were called spares. But reno was not just a
Speaker 1: place to swap one spouse for another, or to kick
Speaker 1: off your boots and have fun. So yes, some of
Speaker 1: the divorces and reno were frivolous, but on the serious side,
Speaker 1: the liberalization of divorce laws has impacted the way that
Speaker 1: women and men divorced today. Nevada made divorce easier to get,
Speaker 1: which was important for women because before then women were
Speaker 1: sometimes referred to as shadows as property of their husbands. Consequently,
Speaker 1: women had very little saying getting out of a bad marriage.
Speaker 1: Mella Harmon says Reno helped many of its female visitors
Speaker 1: at a new chapter in life. Reno's open attitude towards
Speaker 1: divorce served to empower women by giving them freedom from
Speaker 1: bad marriages. It also gave them a sense of self sufficiency,
Speaker 1: and if you could come to Reno and survive and
Speaker 1: support yourself, you could do it back home as well.
Speaker 1: Reno launched Nevada as a divorce mecha during the nineteen
Speaker 1: thirties and forties, but it was just the opening act
Speaker 1: for what would prove to be a much bigger draw
Speaker 1: in the state Las Vegas, the desert town where Marilyn
Speaker 1: Monroe obtained the divorce she needed to pursue her film career.
Speaker 1: Monroe and thousands of other women might never have descended
Speaker 1: on the divorce courts of Vegas if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: another movie star, one just as famous as Monroe. Up next,
Speaker 1: we learn more about the high profile divorce that kick
Speaker 1: started the Vegas divorce business and helped launch the fabulous
Speaker 1: Las Vegas we know today the bright lights of the
Speaker 1: world's greatest gambling city, Las Vegas, a city in the desert,
Speaker 1: the city that never sleeps. It's hard to believe now,
Speaker 1: but Las Vegas wasn't always the destination of choice in Nevada.
Speaker 1: Melaharmin again well, Rena was the largest city in Nevada.
Speaker 1: For many years, Las Vegas was a tiny stop on
Speaker 1: a railroad and had nothing. Really, it was just a
Speaker 1: small town. Las Vegas was hit particularly hard by the depression.
Speaker 1: The building of the Hoover Dam in the nineteen thirties helped.
Speaker 1: It brought millions of dollars and thousands of workers to
Speaker 1: the area, but once those damn workers left, the town
Speaker 1: fell in hard times again. Legalized gambling had not taken
Speaker 1: off yet, and it was hard to get tourists to
Speaker 1: come out to the middle of nowhere to enjoy the
Speaker 1: desert town's two blocks of nightlife. But local leaders were
Speaker 1: determined to turn Vegas his fortunes around, and the divorce
Speaker 1: business seemed the best bet. Las Vegas was very interested
Speaker 1: in um their economy and the divorce that they could
Speaker 1: see obviously that it was lucrative for a reno. They
Speaker 1: just couldn't figure out how to get things started. Everything changed, however,
Speaker 1: when in ninety nine, Rha Langham Gable chose to go
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas to divorce her movie star husband, Clark Gable.
Speaker 1: Clark Gable, the thirty eight year old actor, was one
Speaker 1: of the most recognizable men on the planet. He was
Speaker 1: the king of Hollywood. He was also a terrible husband.
Speaker 1: Clark Gable's second marriage was very tumultuous. This is Anne
Speaker 1: Helen Peterson, a senior culture writer for BuzzFeed and the
Speaker 1: author of Scandals of Classic Hollywood. They fought a ton
Speaker 1: and uh fought publicly, and he cheated on her like crazy,
Speaker 1: so that probably had something to do with it. Clark
Speaker 1: Gable had married Ria Langham, a wealthy Texas divorce before
Speaker 1: he was famous. They were an odd match. She was
Speaker 1: seventeen years his senior and a homely socialite next to
Speaker 1: her dashing husband. By nineteen thirty six, the still married
Speaker 1: Gable started seeing his next wife, the famous actress Carol Lombard.
Speaker 1: One night at a party in Hollywood, Gable and Lombard
Speaker 1: ran into his wife, Rhea Hey, Lombard quipped as they
Speaker 1: passed her by. Doesn't that old bag belong to you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Gable responded, and from the look in those eyes, I
Speaker 1: figured that her asking price for a divorce just went
Speaker 1: up by a hundred grand. Gable was probably right. Rio
Speaker 1: was not about to grant him his freedom for nothing,
Speaker 1: and so it took the salary that Gable received for
Speaker 1: Gone with the Wind to be able to finally offer
Speaker 1: a settlement to a second wife that would satisfy her
Speaker 1: and force her to grant the divorce. Ria Gable packed
Speaker 1: her bags for Nevada to get a quickie divorce, and
Speaker 1: Clark Gable began filming Gone with the Wind, a movie
Speaker 1: in which the subject of divorce often comes up. Scarlett,
Speaker 1: I've been thinking things all that, and I really believe
Speaker 1: it would be better for both of us if we
Speaker 1: admitted we made a mistake and got a divorce. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's no point in our holding onto each other, is there.
Speaker 1: Nevada was no stranger to divorcing celebrities, but lots of
Speaker 1: There were lots of celebrities who came to Reno for divorces.
Speaker 1: Some of them came for multiple divorces. Mela Harmon again.
Speaker 1: Franklin Roosevelt's sons came to Reno for a divorce. Rita Hayworth,
Speaker 1: who had a very famous divorce there, Um Maureen O'Hara,
Speaker 1: Mary Pickford, William Powell, Rudy Valley, Lana Turner. I mean
Speaker 1: that the list is probably endless. The steady stream of
Speaker 1: celebrity visitors brought with them flocks of reporters, so there
Speaker 1: was always a keen interest in who was coming to Reno,
Speaker 1: and in fact, Reno had press offices from many many
Speaker 1: UH newspapers across the United States. The New York Times,
Speaker 1: for example, had an office in Reno. Ranch owners tried
Speaker 1: to shield their celebrity guests from unwanted publicity, but few
Speaker 1: divorces remained secret from the press's prying eyes. Now the Gables,
Speaker 1: the Gables were really famous, which is why Ria planned
Speaker 1: to keep a low profile in the lesser known divorce
Speaker 1: hub of Las Vegas. So she went to Las Vegas
Speaker 1: and her lawyer uh leaked her presence to the to
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and the Las Vegas
Speaker 1: Review Journal. Sandra McGee. Again, Rio wasn't very happy about that.
Speaker 1: She wanted to have a very quiet six weeks in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, so a deal was struck. Las Vegas leaders
Speaker 1: were desperate to promote the city's divorce trade, so they
Speaker 1: came to an arrangement with Real Langham Gable. They would
Speaker 1: keep the reason for her Las Vegas visit out of
Speaker 1: the news until you left. In return, Maria agreed to
Speaker 1: let the press follow her around and photograph her having
Speaker 1: fun on Lake Mead boating, fishing, gambling, and at the
Speaker 1: Apache Club. After the Gables divorce was finalized, the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas papers released the story nationwide. That was sort of
Speaker 1: the first high profile divorce for Las Vegas, and from there,
Speaker 1: of course, they built on that. Las Vegas granted more
Speaker 1: divorces the following year than it ever had before, and
Speaker 1: pretty soon people were running, you might say, to Las
Speaker 1: Vegas to get a divorce, because everyone wanted to get
Speaker 1: a divorce where the Gables had gotten theirs. So the
Speaker 1: story goes, the Las Vegas divorce trade expanded throughout the
Speaker 1: nineteen forties. They caught up to Reno and then became
Speaker 1: the divorce destination of choice, especially for residents of Southern California,
Speaker 1: including Hollywood celebrities. Mela Harmon Las Vegas was a lot
Speaker 1: closer to Los Angeles, US then was Reno. So when
Speaker 1: Las Vegas became uh sort of on everybody's radar as
Speaker 1: a divorce center, uh, it was obviously better for people
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. And so seven years after Clark Gable's divorce
Speaker 1: put Las Vegas on the map, a nineteen year old
Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe turned up there to divorce her first husband
Speaker 1: in the hopes of becoming an actress. And once Monroe's
Speaker 1: acting career takes off, her stardom and her nude body
Speaker 1: will help launch Shugh Heffner's Playboy Empire, which will in
Speaker 1: turn open the eyes of a young reporter named Gloria Steinham.
Speaker 1: Could Monroe of Gondarino or somewhere else for that divorce, sure,
Speaker 1: but she didn't, Hince. Our thread runs through fabulous Las
Speaker 1: Vegas as well and onto Clark Gable, and it is
Speaker 1: rather fitting that it does. Gable was the young Monroe's
Speaker 1: favorite actor, and he meant much more to her than that.
Speaker 1: Here's how Monroe put it during an interview, and Clark Gable,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he won't mind if I say it. I
Speaker 1: used to always think of him as my father. I
Speaker 1: pretended that he was my father. I was just seven
Speaker 1: years old and he was a very young man, and um,
Speaker 1: I thought, that's how I want my father to look.
Speaker 1: Monroe used to loiter outside his Hollywood home, hoping to
Speaker 1: catch a glimpse of him, and she would one day
Speaker 1: get to share the screen with her hero in a
Speaker 1: film about Nevada divorce. That's right, The Misfits, and which
Speaker 1: Monroe plays a washed up starlett and Clark Gable plays Yep,
Speaker 1: a reno cowboy. Here's one of their scenes together. I
Speaker 1: think you're the saddest girl I ever met. The first
Speaker 1: man never said that. I'm usually told her happy. I am.
Speaker 1: That's because you make a man feel happy. I don't
Speaker 1: feel that way. I don't get discouraged, girl. You might
Speaker 1: in real life, Clark Gable was just as persistent when
Speaker 1: it came to his pursuit of women. Next episode, we
Speaker 1: continue our thread with Clark Gable, the man whose divorce
Speaker 1: helped launch Las Vegas. His marriage to real Langham was
Speaker 1: just one of many obligations the movie star would abandon
Speaker 1: or avoid in his rise to the top of Hollywood.
Speaker 1: And it is with this dog that we say farewell
Speaker 1: to Romantic Nevada. The Threat is produced by Libby Coleman
Speaker 1: and me Sean Braswell. Chris Hoff engineered our show special
Speaker 1: thanks to Cindy Carpi and Tracy Moran and James Watkins.
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