1908-10-06 ( 116 years old ) in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
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Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters, October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American film actress. She was particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. She was the third wife of actor Clark Gable.
Lombard was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised in Los Angeles by her single mother. At 12, she was recruited by the film director Allan Dwan and made her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921). Eager to become an actress, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation at age 16, but mainly played bit parts. She was dropped by Fox after a car accident left a scar on her face. Lombard appeared in 15 short comedies for Mack Sennett between 1927 and 1929, and then began appearing in feature films such as High Voltage and The Racketeer. After a successful appearance in The Arizona Kid (1930), she was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures.
Paramount quickly began casting Lombard as a leading lady, primarily in drama films. Her profile increased when she married William Powell in 1931, but the couple divorced after two years. A turning point in Lombard's career came when she starred in Howard Hawks' pioneering screwball comedy Twentieth Century (1934). The actress found her niche in this genre, and continued to appear in films such as Hands Across the Table (1935) (forming a popular partnership with Fred MacMurray), My Man Godfrey (1936), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Nothing Sacred (1937). At this time, Lombard married "the King of Hollywood", Clark Gable, and the supercouple gained much attention from the media. Keen to win an Oscar, at the end of the decade, Lombard began to move towards more serious roles. Unsuccessful in this aim, she returned to comedy in Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942)—her final film role.
Lombard's career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 in an airplane crash on Mount Potosi, Nevada while returning from a war bond tour. Today, she is remembered as one of the definitive actresses of the screwball comedy genre and American comedy, and ranks among the American Film Institute's greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
Movies
Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
2021-09-01
Carole Lombard
2016-09-01
William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005-08-02
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990-09-10
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988-10-01
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
1987-01-01
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984-01-01
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
Showbiz Goes to War
1982-12-31
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982-01-01
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975-08-06
Gable: The King Remembered
1975-02-26
Dear Mr. Gable
1968-03-05
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961-12-31
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957-12-26
Yesterday and Today
1953-12-02
To Be or Not to Be
1942-03-06
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942-01-01
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941-01-31
They Knew What They Wanted
1940-10-19
Vigil in the Night
1940-02-05
In Name Only
1939-08-18
Made for Each Other
1939-02-10
Breakdowns of 1938
1938-12-31
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938-07-07
Fools for Scandal
1938-04-16
True Confession
1937-12-24
Nothing Sacred
1937-11-25
Swing High, Swing Low
1937-03-12
My Man Godfrey
1936-09-02
The Princess Comes Across
1936-05-22
Love Before Breakfast
1936-03-09
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
1935-11-04
Hands Across the Table
1935-10-18
Rumba
1935-02-08
The Gay Bride
1934-12-14
Lady by Choice
1934-10-15
Now and Forever
1934-08-31
Twentieth Century
1934-05-11
We're Not Dressing
1934-04-27
Bolero
1934-02-23
White Woman
1933-11-10
Brief Moment
1933-09-29
The Eagle and the Hawk
1933-05-06
Supernatural
1933-04-21
From Hell to Heaven
1933-02-24
No Man of Her Own
1932-12-30
No More Orchids
1932-11-25
Virtue
1932-10-25
Sinners in the Sun
1932-05-13
No One Man
1932-01-22
I Take This Woman
1931-06-26
Up Pops the Devil
1931-05-19
Ladies' Man
1931-04-16
Man of the World
1931-03-24
It Pays to Advertise
1931-02-18
Fast and Loose
1930-11-08
Safety in Numbers
1930-05-30
The Arizona Kid
1930-03-23
The Racketeer
1929-11-09
Big News
1929-09-06
High Voltage
1929-06-29
Don't Get Jealous
1929-05-19
Matchmaking Mamma
1929-03-30
Ned McCobb's Daughter
1928-12-02
The Campus Vamp
1928-11-25
Hubby's Weekend Trip
1928-11-01
Show Folks
1928-10-20
Me, Gangster
1928-10-20
Motorboat Mamas
1928-09-30
Motorboat Mamas
1928-09-30
Power
1928-09-23
The Campus Carmen
1928-09-22
Smith's Restaurant
1928-08-19
His Unlucky Night
1928-08-12
The Girl from Nowhere
1928-08-05
The Divine Sinner
1928-07-15
The Bicycle Flirt
1928-03-18
The Swim Princess
1928-02-26
The Best Man
1928-02-08
Smith's Army Life
1928-02-06
The Beach Club
1928-01-21
Run, Girl, Run
1928-01-15
The Girl from Everywhere
1927-12-11
My Best Girl
1927-10-31
Gold Digger of Weepah
1927-10-02
Smith's Pony
1927-09-17
The Fighting Eagle
1927-08-28
The Johnstown Flood
1926-02-28
The Road to Glory
1926-02-07
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925-12-25
The Plastic Age
1925-12-15
Durand of the Bad Lands
1925-11-01
Pretty Ladies
1925-09-06
Hearts and Spurs
1925-06-07
Gold and the Girl
1925-04-05
Marriage in Transit
1925-03-29
Dick Turpin
1925-02-01
Gold Heels
1924-11-30
A Perfect Crime
1921-03-05
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