Was director George Cukor fired from ‘Gone With The Wind’ to keep Clark Gable’s gay past a secret?

George Cukor (left), ‘Gone With the Wind’ (right) | Photo Credits: Getty Images

One of the great directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, George Cukor gave us innumerable classics—from Gaslight to A Star Is Born with Judy Garland to Best Picture-winner My Fair Lady—and basically worked right up ’til the very end, passing in 1983 at 83 years old.

Though he was a bit more comfortable discussing his sexuality later in life—telling The Advocate he preferred the term “queer” over “gay” in an ’82 interview—it was considered one of the movie industry’s biggest open secrets for decades.

Of course, acknowledging this truth today, the queer subtext of Cukor’s work becomes a lot more clear in retrospect. As author Joseph McBride writes in his recent biography of

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