Clark Gable fought for civil rights on the set of Gone With The Wind.
A new book about GWTW director Victor Fleming by Michael Sragow, reveals how Gable, the King of Hollywood, nearly stormed off the set of the Civil War epic when he realized how black extras were treated.
The extras, upset at segregated studio bathrooms with signs reading "White" and "Colored", approached Gable about it.
"I’ll be goddamned," the actor told them and promptly got on the phone to Fleming.
"If you don’t get those signs down ,you won’t get your Rhett Butler."
Those signs were gone with the prop master ASAP.
