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Lombard in Indiana, January 1942, shortly before her death in a plane crash. When the U.S. entered World War II, Lombard traveled to her home state of Indiana for a war bond rally with her mother and Clark Gable's press agent, Otto Winkler. Lombard raised more than $2 million in defense bonds in a single evening.
On the morning of January 16, 1942, at 4:00 local time, actress Carole Lombard, her mother, Clark Gable's press agent, and her MGM press agent boarded Flight 3 in Indianapolis. Lombard, eager to meet her husband Clark Gable in Los Angeles, was returning from a successful war bond promotion tour in the Midwest, where she helped raise over $2 ...
William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901, in Cadiz, Ohio, to William Henry "Will" Gable (1870–1948), an oil-well driller, [4] [5] and his wife Adeline (née Hershelman). His father was a Protestant and his mother a Catholic.
The four people who died in a plane crash on Michigan's Beaver Island included a real estate agent and a couple who were planning to open a winery and vineyard there, authorities said Sunday. The ...
A couple died after their plane crashed in a field Sunday in northwest Kansas, officials say. David Allen, 78, and his wife, 79-year-old Jeanne Allen, both from Elbert, Colorado, were killed in ...
The crash of Flight 255 on Aug. 16, 1987, is known as the deadliest plane crash in Michigan history. Memorial services are held every year. Michigan marks 37 years since tragic Northwest Flight ...
The Turner-Gable films' successes were often heightened by gossip-column rumors about a relationship between the two. [83] In January 1942, she began shooting her second picture with Gable, titled Somewhere I'll Find You; [84] however, the production was halted for several weeks after the death of Gable's wife, Carole Lombard, in a plane crash ...
Gable and Lombard fish, play practical jokes on each other, laugh, fight, and have fun making up. His wife finally grants him a divorce, and the two wed. The happily ever after ending is thwarted when Lombard is killed in a plane crash while promoting the purchase of defense bonds during World War II.