Clark Gable ate carrots – true

In the film, a minor character, Oscar Shapely, continually calls the Gable character "Doc"; an imaginary character named "Bugs Dooley" is mentioned once in order to frighten Shapely; and there is also a scene in which Gable eats carrots while talking quickly with his mouth full, as Bugs does.

His quick thinking and omnipresent ... at least one part of him was a direct influence of Hollywood legend Clark Gable — his carrot eating....

Bugs Bunny's nonchalant carrot-chewing ... in a scene in the film It Happened One Night, in which Clark Gable's character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full to Claudette Colbert's ...

The researchers found that compared to pre-intervention levels, skin carotenoid scores were significantly increased by 10.8% in the group receiving the baby carrots and by 21.6% in the group receiving the carrots and the supplement.

The dietary staple became so routine that Americans young and old adopted the belief that rabbits eat carrots in the wild, a canard that persists. However, the real reason Bugs favored carrots on TV for decades had nothing to do with the eating habits of rabbits but was adopted from Clark Gable's ...

If that link isn’t working or you don’t feel like clicking, the gist of this post is that real rabbits aren’t huge fans of carrots, and our association between animal and vegetable is based not on nature but on a cartoon in which Bugs Bunny parodies Clark Gable in “It Happened One Night.”

Rabbits don’t naturally eat carrots, and feeding them too many can be harmful. The myth began with Bugs Bunny mocking a scene from a 1934 Clark Gable film.

Bugs' carrot chomping was a Clark Gable parody, not based on nature.

Bugs Bunny famously chomping on carrots in the Looney Tunes cartoon is actually a parody of Clark Gable doing the same thing in a 1934 comedy.