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John Gilbert
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| Nickname: | Jack |
| Known for: | The Big Parade, Queen Christina, Flesh and the Devil |
| Birth name: | John Cecil Pringle |
| Birthday: | 10 July 1899, Logan, Utah, USA |
| Height: | 5' 11" (1.80 m) |
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Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA., in the Whispering Pines section near the top of the hill.
Was left standing at the altar in 1927, after Greta Garbo got cold feet about marrying him.
MGM star Gilbert had a huge enemy in Louis B. Mayer after Gilbert pummeled Mayer while defending lady love Greta Garbo's honor. It is said that Mayer himself, and/or his chief sound engineer, manipulated the knobs of Gilbert's first talking films so that a perfectly adequate speaking voice came out on the big screen as ridiculously high pitched. Sure enough, when the actor's shrill declarations of love in His Glorious Night (1929) hit movie theaters, audiences howled with laughter. This proved to be the beginning of the end for the decade's highest paid matinée idol ($250,000 per film).
Father of Leatrice Joy Gilbert.
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