5 Celebrity Fixes By The Real Life Eddie Mannix

5. Clark Gable

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Mannix kept megastar Clark Gable out of trouble so often he considered Eddie one of his closest friends. In 1933 Gable was believed to have run over and killed actress Tosca Roulien, and it is alleged that Mannix paid off MGM screenwriter John Huston to take the blame. Luckily, Huston was never charged due to lack of evidence. One year later, Gable supposedly sexually assaulted Loretta Young, his co-star in Call of the Wild, and she fell pregnant. To prevent a scandal – and echoing a plotline of Hail, Caesar! - Mannix helped Loretta to ‘adopt’ her own daughter publicly before her second birthday.