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A couple of blocks of homes in our neighborhood of Merrick, Long Island, New York are called "Gable homes" ostensibly because Clark Gable lived in or near that area when filming a movie.

Is there any truth the claim that Clark Gable did a movie on Long Island? If so, what was it? I did not see anything that suggested that it really happened.

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Rod...

Traditionally, a "gable home" is a home with an outcropping including a window, or a gable... remember Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables"? Certainly there were not seven Clark Gables, especially since the book was written a hundred years before he was born...

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