Breaking News: Clark Gable nearly quit Gone With the Wind early in production when he discovered the set was segregated. He told the director that either they’d take down the “white” and “colored” signs, or they’d have no Rhett Butler.

“Gone With the Wind” is one of Clark Gable’s most famous films. He played the role of Rhett Butler alongside Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara as the two lead characters.

Gable was known as the “King of Hollywood” and was one of the highest-paid actors of the era (via The Los Angeles Times). Of the 67 movies Gable appeared in over the course of his career, 16 of them found their way to the top of the box office charts.

He was in classics like “Mutiny on the Bounty,” “It Happened One Night,” and of course, the legendary “Gone With the Wind,” a film that was groundbreaking in its own right, even if it didn’t have a Hollywood legend as its leading man.