John Gilbert (actor)
John Gilbert | |
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| Born | John Cecil Pringle (1897-07-10)July 10, 1897 Logan, Utah, U.S. |
| Died | January 9, 1936(1936-01-09) (aged 38) Bel Air, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Hitchcock Military Academy |
| Occupation | Actor, director, writer |
| Years active | 1915–1934 |
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| Children | 2 |
John Gilbert (born John Cecil Pringle; July 10, 1897[1][2] – January 9, 1936) was an American actor, screenwriter and director. He rose to fame during the silent film era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover".[3] At the height of his career, Gilbert rivaled Rudolph Valentino, another silent film era leading man, as a box office draw.
Gilbert's popularity began to wane when silent pictures gave way to talkies. Though Gilbert was often cited as one of the high-profile examples of an actor who was unsuccessful in making the transition to talkies, his decline as a star had far more to do with studio politics and money than with the sound of his screen voice, which was rich and distinctive.[4]
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early years
1.2 Extra
1.3 Kay-Bee Company
1.4 Triangle Films
1.5 Maurice Tourneur - Writing and Directing
1.6 Fox and Stardom
1.7 MGM
1.7.1 The Big Parade
1.8 Greta Garbo
1.9 Coming of Sound
1.9.1 His Glorious Night
1.10 Decline
1.11 Queen Christina - Comeback
2 Personal life
3 Death
4 Filmography
5 In popular culture
5.1 Fictional portrayals
6 References
7 External links
Biography
Early years
Born John Cecil Pringle in Logan, Utah, to stock-company actor parents, John Pringle (1865–1929) and Ida Apperly Gilbert (1877–1913), he struggled through a childhood of abuse and neglect. His family moved frequently and Gilbert attended several schools throughout the United States. After his family settled in California, he attended Hitchcock Military Academy in San Rafael, California.[5]
Extra
After he left school Gilbert worked as a rubber goods salesman in San Francisco, then as a stage manager in stock company in Spokane, Washington in 1915. He lost his job when the company folded.[6]
He decided to try acting and got work in films Herschell Mayall as an extra. Gilbert first appeared in a short directed by Wilfred Lucas, The Mother Instinct (1915). He found work as an extra with the Thomas Ince Studios on films such as The Coward (1915), Aloha Oe (1915), Civilization (1915), The Last Act (1916), and William Hart's Hell's Hinges (1916).[6]
Kay-Bee Company
He could also be seen in films for Kay-Bee Company such as Matrimony (1915), The Corner (1915), Eye of the Night (1916) and Bullets and Brown Eyes (1916). He had an early leading part in The Apostle of Vengeance.[6] His pay at this time was $40 a week.[7]
Gilbert began to get parts at Kay-Bee, billed as "Jack Gilbert" in The Aryan (1916) with Hart, The Phantom (1916), Shell 43 (1916), The Sin Ye Do (1917), The Weaker Sex (1917), and The Bride of Hate (1917).
His first leading role was in Princess of the Dark (1917) with Enid Bennett, but the film was not a big success and he went back to supporting roles in The Dark Road (1917), Happiness (1917), The Millionaire Vagrant (1917), and The Hater of Men (1917).[8]
Triangle Films
Gilbert went over to Triangle Films where he was in The Mother Instinct (1917), Golden Rule Kate (1917), The Devil Dodger (1917) (second billed), Up or Down? (1917), and Nancy Comes Home (1918).
For Paralta Plays, Gilbert did Shackled (1918), One Dollar Bid (1918), and Wedlock (1918) and More Trouble (1918) for Anderson, but the company went bankrupt.[7]
He did Doing Their Bit (1918) at Fox and returned to Triangle for The Mask (1918).
Gilbert did Three X Gordon (1918) for Jesse Hampton, The Dawn of Understanding (1918), The White Heather (1919) for Maurice Tourneur, The Busher (1919) for Thomas Ince, The Man Beneath for Haworth, A Little Brother of the Rich (1919) for Universal, The Red Viper (1919) for Tyrad, For a Woman's Honor (1919) for Jess Hampton, Widow by Proxy (1919) for Paramount, Heart o' the Hills (1919) for Mary Pickford, and Should a Woman Tell? (1919) for Screen Classics.[9]
Maurice Tourneur - Writing and Directing
Tourneur signed him to a contract to both write and act in films. Gilbert acted in and co-wrote The White Circle (1920), The Great Redeemer (1921) and Deep Waters (1921). As a writer only he worked on The Bait (1921), starring and produced by Hope Hampton. For Hampton, Gilbert wrote and directed, but did not appear in Love's Penalty (1921).
For HO David he was in The Servant in the House (1921).
Fox and Stardom
In 1921, Gilbert signed a three-year contract with Fox Film Corporation, where he was cast as a romantic leading man as "John Gilbert".
Fox gave Gilbert his first real starring part in Shame (1921).[10] He followed it with leading roles in Arabian Love (1922), Gleam O'Dawn (1922), The Yellow Stain (1922), Honor First (1922), Monte Cristo (1922) an adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo,Calvert's Valley (1922), The Love Gambler (1922), and A California Romance (1922). Many of these films were written by Jules Furthman.
He returned to Tourneur to costar with Lon Chaney in While Paris Sleeps (1923). Back at Fox Gilbert starred in Truxton King (1923), Madness of Youth (1923), St. Elmo (1923), and The Exiles (1923).
Gilbert starred in Cameo Kirby (1923), directed by John Ford, co starring Jean Arthur. He went into The Wolf Man (1923) with Norma Shearer, not a horror film, but the story of a man who believes he murdered his fiancee's brother while drunk.
Gilbert's last films for Fox were Just Off Broadway (1924), A Man's Mate (1924), The Lone Chance (1924), and Romance Ranch (1924).[11]
MGM
In 1924, Gilbert moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became a full-fledged star with high-profile films, starting with His Hour (1924) directed by King Vidor and written by Elinor Glyn and co-starring Aileen Pringle. It was a big success.[12]
He followed this with He Who Gets Slapped (1924) co-starring Chaney and Shearer and directed by Victor Sjöström; The Snob (1924) with Shearer; The Wife of the Centaur (1924) for Vidor; The Merry Widow (1925) directed by Erich von Stroheim and co-starring Mae Murray. The latter was a huge box office success.[13]
The Big Parade
Gilbert was once again directed by Vidor in the war epic The Big Parade (1925), which became the second-highest grossing silent film and the most profitable film of the silent era. His performance in this film made him a major star.[12]
The following year, Vidor reunited Gilbert with two of his co-stars from that picture, Renée Adorée and Karl Dane, for the film La Bohème (1926) which also starred Lillian Gish. He then did another with Vidor, Bardelys the Magnificent (1926).
Press release photo
Greta Garbo
Gilbert with Greta Garbo in A Woman of Affairs (1929)
In 1926, Gilbert made Flesh and the Devil (1926), his first film with Greta Garbo. They soon began a highly publicized relationship, much to the delight of their fans. Gilbert wanted to marry her, but Garbo continually balked. Legend has it that a wedding was finally planned but Garbo failed to appear at the ceremony. Recent Garbo biographers, however, have questioned the veracity of this story.[14]
He made The Show (1927) with Adoree for Tod Browning then did Twelve Miles Out (1927) with Joan Crawford and Man, Woman and Sin (1927) with Jeanne Eagels.[15]
He was reunited with Garbo in Love (1927), which was a modern adaptation of Anna Karenina. It was slyly advertised by MGM as "Garbo and Gilbert in Love." In 1927 he went to jail for ten days for disturbing the peace.[16]
Gilbert made The Cossacks (1928) with Adoree; Four Walls (1928) with Crawford; Show People (1928) with Marion Davies for Vidor, in which Gilbert only had a cameo; and The Masks of the Devil (1928) for Victor Sjöström.
Gilbert and Garbo were teamed for a third time in A Woman of Affairs (1928). His last silent film was Desert Nights (1929).
Coming of Sound
Throughout his time at MGM, Gilbert frequently clashed with studio head Louis B. Mayer over creative, social and financial matters. It was said, for example, that at the alleged double-wedding of Garbo and Gilbert and director King Vidor and actress Eleanor Boardman, Mayer made a crude remark about Garbo that led Gilbert to physically attack the mogul. This story has been disputed by some historians. Although one eyewitness—the bride, Eleanor Boardman—claimed to have seen the assault, others deny that it occurred.
In any case, Mayer apparently detested Gilbert and was disgruntled that the actor had signed a contract for six pictures at $250,000 each. It was suggested that Mayer deliberately gave Gilbert bad scripts and ineffective directors in an effort to void the contract.
With the coming of sound, Gilbert's vocal talents made a good first impression in the all-star musical comedy The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929), appearing in a Technicolor sequence with Norma Shearer. They played the balcony scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, first as written, and then using current slang. Most reviewers did not note any problems with Gilbert's voice at this time and some praised it.
His Glorious Night
Audiences awaited Gilbert's first romantic role on the talking screen. The vehicle was the Ruritanian romance His Glorious Night (1929), directed by Lionel Barrymore. According to reviewers, audiences laughed nervously at Gilbert's performance. The fault was not Gilbert's voice, it was said, but the awkward scenario along with overly ardent love scenes. In one, Gilbert keeps kissing his leading lady, (Catherine Dale Owen), while saying "I love you" over and over again. The scene was parodied in the MGM musical Singin' in the Rain (1952) in which a preview of the fictional The Dueling Cavalier flops disastrously. Director King Vidor stated that Rudolph Valentino, Gilbert's main rival in the 1920s for romantic leads, probably would have suffered the same fate in the talkie era, had he lived. It was rumored that L.B. Mayer ordered Gilbert's voice to be gelded to a higher pitch to ruin him.
The next Gilbert film to be released was Redemption (1930) with Adoree, actually shot before His Glorious Night.
Decline
MGM put him in a more rugged film, Way for a Sailor (1930) with Wallace Beery. He followed it with Gentleman's Fate (1931).
Gilbert became increasingly depressed by progressively inferior films and idle stretches between productions, but he resolved to thwart Louis B. Mayer and see the six-picture contract through.
Gilbert's fortunes were temporarily restored when MGM's production chief Irving Thalberg gave him two projects that were character studies, giving Gilbert an excellent showcase for his versatility. The Phantom of Paris (1931), originally intended for Lon Chaney (who died from cancer in 1930), cast Gilbert as a debonair magician and showman who is falsely accused of murder and uses his mastery of disguise to unmask the real killer.[17]
Downstairs (1932) was based on Gilbert's original story, with the actor playing against type as a scheming, blackmailing chauffeur. The films were well received by critics and fans but failed to revive his career.[18] In between he appeared in West of Broadway (1931).
Shortly after making Downstairs, he married co-star Virginia Bruce; the couple divorced in 1934.
Gilbert fulfilled his contract with an unimportant "B" picture - Fast Workers (1933) directed by Browning. He left the studio in 1933 at the end of his $10,000 a week contract.[19]
Queen Christina - Comeback
Gilbert announced his retirement from acting. He was working at Fox as an "honorary" director when in August 1933 Gilbert announced he had signed a seven year contract with MGM at $75–100,000 a picture.[20] The reason was Greta Garbo insisted that Gilbert return to MGM to play her leading man in Queen Christina (1933), directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Garbo was top-billed, with Gilbert's name beneath the title. Again, the picture failed to revive his career.[21]
Columbia Pictures gave him what would be his final chance for a comeback in The Captain Hates the Sea (1934) in which he gave a capable performance as a frustrated playwright. But the off-screen cast of heavy drinkers encouraged his alcoholism and the film was his last.
Personal life
Gilbert was married four times. His first marriage, on August 26, 1918, was to Olivia Burwell, a native of Mississippi whom Gilbert had met after her family moved to California. They separated the following year and Olivia Burwell Gilbert returned to Mississippi for a while. She filed for divorce in Los Angeles in 1921.[22]
In February 1921, Gilbert announced his engagement to actress Leatrice Joy. They married in Tijuana in November 1921.[23] As Gilbert had failed to secure a divorce from his first wife and the legality of Gilbert and Joy's Mexican marriage was questionable, the couple separated and had the marriage annulled to avoid a scandal.[24] They remarried on March 3, 1922. The marriage was tumultuous and, in June 1923, Joy filed for legal separation after she claimed that Gilbert slapped her face after a night of heavy drinking. They reconciled several months later. In August 1924, Joy, who was pregnant with the couple's first child, filed for divorce.[25] Joy later said she left Gilbert after discovering he was having an affair with actress Laurette Taylor.[26] Joy also claimed that Gilbert had conducted affairs with Barbara La Marr (with whom he had a romance before his marriage to Joy), Lila Lee and Bebe Daniels.[27] Gilbert and Joy had a daughter, Leatrice Gilbert (later Fountain; 4 September 1924 – 20 January 2015).[28][29][30] Joy was granted a divorce in May 1925.[31]
In 1929, Gilbert eloped with actress Ina Claire to Las Vegas.[32] They separated in February 1931 and divorced six months later.[33][34] Gilbert's fourth and final marriage was on August 10, 1932, to actress Virginia Bruce, who had recently costarred with him on the MGM film Downstairs.[35][36] The entertainment trade paper The Film Daily reported that their "quick" wedding was held in Gilbert's dressing room on the MGM lot while Bruce was working on another studio production, Kongo.[37] Among the people attending the small ceremony were the head of MGM production Irving Thalberg, who served as Gilbert's best man; screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart, whose wife Beatrice acted as Bruce's matron of honor; MGM art director and set designer Cedric Gibbons; and his wife, actress Dolores del Río.[37] Bruce retired briefly from acting following the birth of their daughter Susan Ann; however, she resumed her career after their divorce in May 1934.[38][39]
Before his death, Gilbert dated actress Marlene Dietrich as well as Greta Garbo.[40] When he died, he had recently been slated to play a prominent supporting role in Dietrich's film Desire.[41]
Death
By 1934, alcoholism had severely damaged Gilbert's health. He suffered a serious heart attack in December 1935, which left him in poor health.[42] Gilbert suffered a second heart attack at his Bel Air home on January 9, 1936, which was fatal.[43]
A private funeral was held on January 11 at the B.E. Mortuary in Beverly Hills. Among the mourners were Gilbert's two ex-wives, Leatrice Joy and Virginia Bruce, his two daughters, and stars Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Myrna Loy, and Raquel Torres.[44][45]
Gilbert was cremated and his ashes were interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale in Glendale, California.[46][47]
Gilbert left the bulk of his estate, valued at $363,494 (equivalent to $6.56 million in 2018), to his last ex-wife Virginia Bruce and their daughter, Susan Ann. He left $10,000 to his eldest daughter Leatrice, and other amounts to friends, relatives and his servants.[48][49]
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Gilbert has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1755 Vine Street.[50] In 1994, he was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
Filmography
| Year | Films | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | The Coward | Minor role | Uncredited |
| 1915 | Matrimony | Extra | Short film Uncredited |
| 1915 | Aloha Oe | Extra | Uncredited |
| 1916 | The Corner | Extra | Uncredited |
| 1916 | Bullets and Brown Eyes | ||
| 1916 | The Last Act | Extra | Uncredited |
| 1916 | Hell's Hinges | Rowdy townsman | Uncredited |
| 1916 | The Aryan | Extra | Uncredited |
| 1916 | Civilization | Extra | Uncredited |
| 1916 | The Apostle of Vengeance | Willie Hudson | |
| 1916 | The Phantom | Bertie Bereton | |
| 1916 | Eye of the Night | Uncredited | |
| 1916 | Shell 43 | English Spy | |
| 1916 | The Sin Ye Do | Jimmy | |
| 1917 | The Weaker Sex | ||
| 1917 | The Bride of Hate | Dr. Duprez's Son | |
| 1917 | Princess of the Dark | "Crip" Halloran | |
| 1917 | The Dark Road | Cedric Constable | |
| 1917 | Happiness | Richard Forrester | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1917 | The Millionaire Vagrant | James Cricket | |
| 1917 | The Hater of Men | Billy Williams | |
| 1917 | The Mother Instinct | Jean Coutierre | |
| 1917 | Golden Rule Kate | The Heller | |
| 1917 | The Devil Dodger | Roger Ingraham | |
| 1917 | Up or Down? | Allan Corey | |
| 1918 | Nancy Comes Home | Phil Ballou | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1918 | Shackled | James Ashley | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1918 | More Trouble | Harvey Deering | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1918 | One Dollar Bid | Credited as Jack Gilbert | |
| 1918 | Wedlock | Granger Hollister | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1918 | Doing Their Bit | Credited as Jack Gilbert | |
| 1918 | The Mask | Billy Taylor | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1918 | Three X Gordon | Archie | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1918 | The Dawn of Understanding | Ira Beasly | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1919 | The White Heather | Dick Beach | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1919 | The Busher | Jim Blair | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1919 | The Man Beneath | James Bassett | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1919 | A Little Brother of the Rich | Carl Wilmerding | |
| 1919 | The Red Viper | Dick Grant | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1919 | For a Woman's Honor | Dick Rutherford | |
| 1919 | Widow by Proxy | Jack Pennington | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1919 | Heart o' the Hills | Gray Pendleton | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1919 | Should a Woman Tell? | The Villain | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1920 | The White Circle | Frank Cassilis | Credited as Jack Gilbert Writer |
| 1920 | The Great Redeemer | Undetermined role | Uncredited Adaptation |
| 1920 | Deep Waters | Bill Lacey | Credited as Jack Gilbert Writer |
| 1921 | The Servant in the House | Percival | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1921 | The Bait | – | Lost film Writer |
| 1921 | Love's Penalty | – | Writer, director, editor |
| 1921 | Shame | William Fielding/David Field | |
| 1921 | Ladies Must Live | The Gardener | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1922 | Gleam O'Dawn | Gleam O'Dawn | |
| 1922 | Arabian Love | Norman Stone | |
| 1922 | The Yellow Stain | Donald Keith | |
| 1922 | Honor First | Jacques Dubois/Honoré Duboois | |
| 1922 | Monte Cristo | Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo | |
| 1922 | Calvert's Valley | Page Emlyn | Credited as Jack Gilbert |
| 1922 | The Love Gambler | Dick Manners | |
| 1922 | A California Romance | Don Patricio Fernando | |
| 1923 | While Paris Sleeps | Dennis O'Keefe | |
| 1923 | Truxton King | Truxton King | |
| 1923 | Madness of Youth | Jaca Javalie | |
| 1923 | St. Elmo | St. Elmo Thornton | Lost film |
| 1923 | The Exiles | Henry Holcombe | |
| 1923 | Cameo Kirby | Cameo Kirby | |
| 1924 | Just Off Broadway | Stephen Moore | |
| 1924 | The Wolf Man | Gerald Stanley | Lost film |
| 1924 | A Man's Mate | Paul | |
| 1924 | The Lone Chance | Jack Saunders | Lost film |
| 1924 | Romance Ranch | Carlos Brent | |
| 1924 | His Hour | Gritzko | |
| 1924 | Married Flirts | Guest at party | Cameo appearance Lost film |
| 1924 | He Who Gets Slapped | Bezano | |
| 1924 | The Snob | Eugene Curry | Lost film |
| 1924 | The Wife of the Centaur | Jeffrey Dwyer | Lost film |
| 1925 | The Merry Widow | Prince Danilo Petrovich | |
| 1925 | The Big Parade | James Apperson | |
| 1925 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Crowd extra in chariot race | Uncredited |
| 1926 | La Bohème | Rodolphe | |
| 1926 | Bardelys the Magnificent | Bardelys | |
| 1926 | Flesh and the Devil | Leo von Harden | |
| 1927 | The Show | Cock Robin | |
| 1927 | Twelve Miles Out | Jerry Fay | |
| 1927 | Man, Woman and Sin | Albert Whitcomb | |
| 1927 | Love | Captain Count Alexei Vronsky | Director (Uncredited) |
| 1928 | The Cossacks | Lukashka | |
| 1928 | Four Walls | Benny Horowitz | Lost film |
| 1928 | Show People | Himself | Cameo appearance Uncredited |
| 1928 | The Masks of the Devil | Baron Reiner | |
| 1928 | A Woman of Affairs | Neville "Nevs" Holderness | |
| 1929 | Desert Nights | Hugh Rand | Last silent film |
| 1929 | His Glorious Night | Captain Kovacs | Sound film debut |
| 1929 | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Himself | |
| 1930 | Redemption | Fedya | |
| 1930 | Way for a Sailor | Jack | |
| 1931 | Gentleman's Fate | Giacomo Tomasulo/Jack Thomas | |
| 1931 | The Phantom of Paris | Chéri-Bibi | |
| 1931 | West of Broadway | Jerry Seevers | |
| 1932 | Downstairs | Karl Schneider | Story |
| 1933 | Fast Workers | Gunner Smith | |
| 1933 | Queen Christina | Antonio | |
| 1934 | The Captain Hates the Sea | Steve Bramley |
In popular culture
John Gilbert is the subject of a mini-documentary film called Rediscovering John Gilbert (2010) featuring an on-camera interview with John Gilbert's daughter and biographer, Leatrice Gilbert Fountain. The short film, directed and produced by film historian Jeffrey Vance, has aired on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel and is also available on DVD from home video distributor Flicker Alley.[51]
Fictional portrayals
Gilbert has been portrayed in several films. In 1980, Barry Bostwick appeared as the actor in the television film The Silent Lovers. Gilbert has also been portrayed by his grandson, John Fountain, (in 1988's Sunset), Christopher Renstrom (in 1989's La Divina), and Adnan Taletovich (in 2012's Return to Babylon).
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^ SERVICE FOR JOHN GILBERT: Two Former Wives Attend Funeral of Actor in Beverl.y Hills,
New York Times 12 Jan 1936: N10.
^ "Marlene Is Witness at Gilbert Cremation". The Milwaukee Journal. February 16, 1936. p. 8. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
^ Boyd, Hal (June 27, 1947). "Forest Lawn Cemetery Is One Of Glendale's Big Industries; Great of Film World Lie Here". San Jose News. p. 7. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
^ "Gilbert's Estate Set at $363,494". The Milwaukee Journal. January 28, 1936. p. 6. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
^ ESTATE OF JOHN GILBERT DISCLOSED TO BE $363,494
Los Angeles Times 28 Jan 1936: A1.
^ "John Gilbert - Hollywood Walk of Fame". www.walkoffame.com. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
^ Rediscovering John Gilbert on IMDb
- Bibliography
Fountain, Leatrice Gilbert (1985). Dark Star: The Untold Story of the Meteoric Rise and Fall of Legendary Silent Screen Star John Gilbert. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0312182755.
- DeBartolo, John (2001). "Man, Woman and Sin." Retrieved May 6, 2005.
- Lussier, Tim (2002). "Merry Widow" commentary. Retrieved May 6, 2005.
- Golden Silents (2004). "John Gilbert, Silent and Sound Film Star, Actor, Director, Writer." Retrieved May 5, 2005.
- Thompson, Dean (2004). "Woman of Affairs" Commentary. Retrieved May 6, 2005.
Golden, Eve (2013). John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0813141626.
External links
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John Gilbert on IMDb
John Gilbert at AllMovie
Interview with Marlene Dietrich's daughter mentioning Gilbert- Photographs of John Gilbert
Sidereality review of "Gilbert and Garbo in Love" Book review/essay with considerable biographical material concerning John Gilbert
John Gilbert at Find a Grave
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