Clark Gable was exempted from the cast of Mutiny on the Bounty .
Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night -LRB- 1934 -RRB- , and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty -LRB- 1935 -RRB- and for his arguably best-known role as Rhett Butler in the epic Civil War drama Gone with the Wind -LRB- 1939 -RRB- .
Clark Gable