Clark Gable's Birth Card: The Jack of Spades

In the record

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American actor often referred to as the "King of Hollywood ". The birth-card coordinate for February 1 is the Jack of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1935 Best Actor — It Happened One Night win.

Academy Award record

• 1935 Best Actor — It Happened One Night

The Jack of Spades coordinate

Clark Gable's birthday maps to the Jack of Spades (The Messenger of Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Clark Gable. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name what is actually happening and you remain after you have said it.

Live Jack of Spades meaning page

Clark Gable in the public record

He appeared in more than 60 motion pictures across a variety of genres during a 37-year career, three decades of which he spent as a leading man. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gable as the seventh-greatest male screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema. Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) and earned nominations in the same category for portraying Fletcher Christian in Frank Lloyd's Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Rhett Butler in Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind (1939). For his comedic performances in George Seaton's Teacher's Pet (1958) and Walter Lang's But Not for Me (1959), Gable received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. His other notable films include William A. Wellman's Call of the Wild (1935), George Sidney's Key to the City (1950), and John Ford's Mogambo (1953). His final onscreen role was as an aging cowboy in John Huston's The Misfits (1961). Gable was one of the most consistently bankable stars in the history of Hollywood, appearing 16 times on Quigley Publishing's annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Clark Gable (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for J♠, 10♣, 7♣, 8♠, 6♣, K♣, 8♣, 6♦, 4♠, 10♥, 10♦, A♥, A♦, Q♦, 5♥, 3♣, 3♠, 9♥, 5♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.

Also on the record

1. He appeared opposite many of the most popular actresses of their time.
2. He died of a heart attack in 1960 at age 59.

Other winners with this card

• Ray Milland — 1946 Best Actor — The Lost Weekend

FAQ

What is Clark Gable's birth card?

The Jack of Spades. February 1 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Clark Gable's dates come from?

Birth date 1901-02-01 is the day-precision date on Clark Gable's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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