Gable and Lombard The sensational love story of actors Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. They met in 1932 for the filming of ‘No Man of Her Own’. Gable was married to a Texas heiress and Lombard to actor William Powell. They started their tumultuous affair in 1936 when they attended a party and danced together all night. They were married in 1939 in Arizona while Gable was filming Gone with the Wind, the biggest movie of his career.