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\n\tIf nothing else, 1935\u2019s Mutiny on the Bounty<\/em> answers the burning question: What does Clark Gable look like without a mustache? The decision to shave off his facial trademark was a difficult one, but producer Irving Thalberg and Gable relented to conforming with historical accuracy, as Gable\u2019s character, HMS Bounty executive officer Fletcher Christian, would never have been permitted facial hair in 18th century England\u2019s Royal Navy.<\/p>\n \n\tShot at MGM\u2019s Culver City studios (for interiors) and around Santa Barbara and Monterey, California (for seafaring scenes), the historical epic was one of the costliest ever for the era, with a budget of $2 million ($50 million today) \u201cdue to the large cast of name players, the length of time in production and the expense entailed\u201d in shooting the ship scenes, according to a THR <\/em>field report dated Aug. 20, 1935.<\/p>\n \n\tAside from Gable, fresh off his Oscar win for 1934\u2019s It Happened One Night <\/em>and at the peak of his stardom, the film starred Charles Laughton \u2014 who won best actor the year prior for The Private Life of Henry VIII<\/em> \u2014 as the brutal Captain Bligh (plus an uncredited David Niven and James Cagney as crewmen).<\/p>\n \n\tThe Frank Lloyd-directed picture was declared \u201cone of the greatest of all time\u201d by a THR<\/em> review ahead of its November opening, with \u201cb.o. records assured.\u201d Bowing in theaters 90 years ago on Nov. 8, the film ended up making $4.5 million worldwide ($107 million today) and garnering four Academy Award nominations, pitting Gable and Laughton against each other in the best actor category, along with Franchot Tone, who played midshipman Roger Byam. It remains the only film with three best actor Oscar nominations. Alas, none of them won \u2014 and the Academy introduced a best supporting actor category the next year to avoid one film dominating the best actor field.<\/p>\n \n\tMutiny on the Bounty <\/em>did win best picture, making it the last film to take the top Oscar without winning in any other category. <\/p>\n \n\tThis story first appeared in a November stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If nothing else, 1935\u2019s Mutiny on the Bounty answers the burning question: What does Clark Gable look like without a mustache? The decision to shave off his facial trademark was a difficult one, but producer Irving Thalberg and Gable relented to conforming with historical accuracy, as Gable\u2019s character, HMS Bounty executive officer Fletcher Christian, would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1421,19762,13641,4644,19761,12841,8649],"class_list":{"0":"post-34879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-actor","9":"tag-bounty","10":"tag-category","11":"tag-led","12":"tag-mutiny","13":"tag-oscars","14":"tag-supporting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}