This celebrated image called “The Kings of Hollywood” was taken on New Year’s Eve of 1957 by Slim Aarons (1916-2006) in the Crown Room at Romanoff’s restaurant in Hollywood. It shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and James Stewart sharing a laugh, called by Smithsonian Magazine called “a Mount Rushmore of stardom”. Gable would be dead in 1960, Heflin in 1971, and Cooper in 1961, all at only about 60, well before their time. Only Stewart lived on into his old age, dying in 1997 at 89.This celebrated image called “The Kings of Hollywood” was taken on New Year’s Eve of 1957 by Slim Aarons (1916-2006) in the Crown Room at Romanoff’s restaurant in Hollywood. It shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and James Stewart sharing a laugh, called by Smithsonian Magazine called “a Mount Rushmore of stardom”. Gable would be dead in 1960, Heflin in 1971, and Cooper in 1961, all at only about 60, well before their time. Only Stewart lived on into his old age, dying in 1997 at 89.
This celebrated image called “The Kings of Hollywood” was taken on New Year’s Eve of 1957 by Slim Aarons (1916-2006) in the Crown Room at Romanoff’s restaurant in Hollywood. It shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and James Stewart sharing a laugh, called by Smithsonian Magazine called “a Mount Rushmore of stardom”. Gable would be dead in 1960, Heflin in 1971, and Cooper in 1961, all at only about 60, well before their time. Only Stewart lived on into his old age, dying in 1997 at 89.