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After featuring in the drama No More Orchids, Lombard was cast as the wife of a con artist in No Man of Her Own [49] with Clark Gable [50] The film was a critical and commercial success, and Wes Gehring writes that it was "arguably Lombard's finest film appearance" to that point. [51] It was the only picture that Gable and Lombard made together.
Gable's relationship with and marriage in 1939 to his third wife, actress Carole Lombard (1908–1942), was one of the happiest periods of his personal life. [ 4 ] : 189–201 They met while filming 1932's No Man of Her Own , when Lombard was still married to actor William Powell .
In 1932, he acted alongside future wife Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own. [2] In his next role in Dancing Lady (1933), Gable appeared alongside Ted Healy and His Stooges and Fred Astaire, who was making his acting debut. Gable's role in the Frank Capra-directed It Happened One Night (1934) garnered him the Academy Award for Best Actor. [3]
Gable’s third wife, famed actress Carole Lombard — whom he is said to have adored — died in 1942. O’Brien’s third husband, Jay J. O’Brien, a former Olympic bobsledder and polo player ...
The film is "Gable and Lombard," with two young actors imitating two of Hollywood's most famous stars. The alleged purpose of the film is to tell us the ill-fated love story of Clark Gable and his third wife, actress Carole Lombard. But less than five minutes into the film one realizes the romance is simply a cover story.
No Man of Her Own is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film starring Clark Gable and Carole Lombard as a married couple in their only film together, several years before their own legendary marriage in real life.
A major star when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred in 1941. Gable was perfect to lead the patriotic movement in Hollywood. [4] One of Gable's first decisions as chairman of the Hollywood Victory Committee was to enlist the aid of his wife, Carole Lombard, also a successful actress, to sell war bonds. She initially traveled around Indiana ...
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