Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

upper rack

English answer:

upper dentures

Added to glossary by Kim Metzger
Jul 25, 2004 14:49
19 yrs ago
English term

upper rack

English Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
This is an early quote from film star Clark Gable, when he said: "You know, I think I will have hit the pinnacle of my career on the day that I walk down Washington Boulevard, take out my upper rack and throw it right through Louis B. Mayer's window."

(Louis B. Mayer was a studio head at the time.)

While I understand the gist of the sentence, I have trouble finding an adequate translation for "upper rack" in this context.

Thanks in advance!

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dentures

I think he's referring to his "uppers" his upper dentures. He'll take out his dentures and throw it through Mayer's window.

Although Gable strove to be "just a regular guy," few people at first took him seriously; either they thought he "was involved as an actor only," or made him the object of fun. Gable countered the jibes with gags of his own. One morning, shaving with fifty other men, he waved around his dentures, joking, "Look at the King, the King of Hollywood. Sure looks like the Jack now, doesn't he?" He genuinely wanted to relate to his peers, and soon most men regarded him as a "regular fellow." A friend said, "I think those of us who knew Clark Gable as a soldier saw the real man more than anyone else perhaps in his whole lifetime. He was not a movie star to us." The fans disagreed.
http://www.geocities.com/cactus_st/article/article143a.html
Peer comment(s):

agree Vicky Papaprodromou
6 mins
The ol' choppers.
agree Alfa Trans (X) : nice to know, thank you for telling us about the "regular guy"!
4 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Ah, that fits perfectly in the bigger context, I also just had a piece about him having his bad teeth fixed. Thanks so much for the fast reaction!"
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top partial / dentures

I believe he's referring to his false teeth.

The Diary of Coftia!... lol I had an uber weird convo I had with Alicia {alicia} i bit my lower lip with my upper rack of teeth {moi} *rofls to death* {alicia} not funny, *smack* {moi ...
www.seien.org/coftia/2004_02_15_archive.html - 15k - Cached - Similar pages


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