
Carole Lombard
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography

The Love Story of Jean Harlow and William Powell

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

Carole Lombard

William Powell: A True Gentleman

That's Entertainment! III

Death In Hollywood

Anthony Quinn: An Original

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Showbiz Goes to War

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Gable: The King Remembered

Dear Mr. Gable

The Big Parade of Comedy

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

The Golden Age of Comedy

Yesterday and Today

To Be or Not to Be

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

They Knew What They Wanted

Vigil in the Night

In Name Only

Made for Each Other

Breakdowns of 1938

Hollywood Goes to Town

Fools for Scandal

True Confession

Nothing Sacred

Swing High, Swing Low

My Man Godfrey

The Princess Comes Across

Love Before Breakfast

The Fashion Side of Hollywood

Hands Across the Table

Rumba

The Gay Bride

Lady by Choice

Now and Forever

Twentieth Century

We're Not Dressing

Bolero

White Woman

Brief Moment

The Eagle and the Hawk

Supernatural

From Hell to Heaven

No Man of Her Own

No More Orchids

Virtue

Sinners in the Sun

No One Man

I Take This Woman

Up Pops the Devil

Ladies' Man

Man of the World

It Pays to Advertise

Fast and Loose

Safety in Numbers

The Arizona Kid

The Racketeer

Big News

High Voltage

Don't Get Jealous

Matchmaking Mamma

Ned McCobb's Daughter

The Campus Vamp

Hubby's Weekend Trip

Show Folks

Me, Gangster

Motorboat Mamas

Motorboat Mamas

Power

The Campus Carmen

Smith's Restaurant

His Unlucky Night

The Girl from Nowhere

The Divine Sinner

The Bicycle Flirt

The Swim Princess

The Best Man

Smith's Army Life

The Beach Club

Run, Girl, Run

The Girl from Everywhere

My Best Girl

Gold Digger of Weepah

Smith's Pony

The Fighting Eagle

The Johnstown Flood

The Road to Glory

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

The Plastic Age

Durand of the Bad Lands

Pretty Ladies

Hearts and Spurs

Gold and the Girl

Marriage in Transit

Dick Turpin

Gold Heels
