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Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress.In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
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 ...
Army officials offered to honor Lombard with a complete military funeral but Gable chose to respect her wishes and opted for a simple, private funeral. After his wife's burial in California, Clark Gable joined the Army Air Corps and flew B-17 missions from England. Lombard was recognized by the Hollywood Victory Committee as the first star to ...
In Name Only is a 1939 romantic film starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, and Kay Francis, directed by John Cromwell. It was based on the 1935 novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer . The fictional town where it is set, Bridgefield, Connecticut, is based on the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut .
Carole Lombard (1908–1942) was an American cinema actress who appeared in 56 feature films and 18 short films in a career spanning 21 years before her death in an airplane crash at the age of 33. Filmography
They All Kissed the Bride is a 1942 American screwball comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas.. Crawford took over the title role after Carole Lombard died in a plane crash in early 1942.
High Voltage (1929) is an American pre-Code film produced by Pathé Exchange and directed by Howard Higgin. [1] [2] The film stars William Boyd, Diane Ellis, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley, Billy Bevan, and Carole Lombard in her feature-length "talkie" debut, billed as "Carol Lombard."
The film stars Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, and Shirley Temple in a story about a small-time swindler going straight for his child's sake. Temple sang "The World Owes Me a Living," introducing the future standard. The film was critically well received.