Name
Carole Lombard
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1908-10-06
Deathday
1942-01-16 (34 years old)
Place of Birth
Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
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.
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- 1942 To Be or Not to Be as Maria Tura
- 1941 Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Ann
- 1934 Twentieth Century as Lily Garland, formerly Mildred Plotka
- 1936 The Princess Comes Across as Princess Olga / Wanda Nash
- 1935 Hands Across the Table as Regi Allen
- 1939 In Name Only as Julie Eden
- 1934 We're Not Dressing as Doris Worthington
- 1936 My Man Godfrey as Irene Bullock
- 1932 No Man of Her Own as Connie Randall
- 1937 Nothing Sacred as Hazel Flagg
- 2021 Normandie ne partira pas ce soir as Self (archive footage)
- 1953 Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)
- 1921 A Perfect Crime as Griggs' Kid Sister
- 1939 Made for Each Other as Jane Mason
- 1925 Marriage in Transit as Celia Hathaway
- 1925 Hearts and Spurs as Sybil Estabrook
- 1925 Gold and the Girl
- 1927 Gold Digger of Weepah as Fortune Teller (uncredited)
- 1927 The Girl from Everywhere as Vera Veranda - Miss Anybody
- 1928 The Swim Princess as Trudy - the Swim Star
- 1928 The Bicycle Flirt as Mabel - The Wife's Sister
- 1928 The Divine Sinner as Millie Claudert
- 1928 The Girl from Nowhere as Miss Boyle - Dress Shop Owner
- 1928 Smith's Restaurant as Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1928 Motorboat Mamas as Automobile Passenger (uncredited)
- 1928 Hubby's Weekend Trip as Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1928 Ned McCobb's Daughter as Jennie
- 1929 Don't Get Jealous as Girl at Shoeshine Stand (uncredited)
- 1934 Lady by Choice as Alabam Lee
- 1982 Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- 1934 Now and Forever as Toni Day
- 1932 Sinners in the Sun as Doris Blake
- 1933 The Eagle and the Hawk as The Beautiful Lady
- 1940 They Knew What They Wanted as Amy Peters
- 1932 Virtue as Mae
- 1929 The Racketeer as Rhoda Philbrooke
- 1937 Swing High, Swing Low as Maggie King
- 1931 Man of the World as Mary Kendall
- 1933 Supernatural as Roma Courtney
- 1928 The Campus Vamp as Carole (as Carol Lombard)
- 1937 True Confession as Helen Bartlett
- 1929 High Voltage as Billie ("Phyllis")
- 1936 Love Before Breakfast as Kay Colby
- 1931 It Pays to Advertise as Mary Grayson
- 1928 The Campus Carmen as Carole
- 1929 Matchmaking Mamma as Phyllis
- 1929 Big News as Margaret Banks
- 1940 Vigil in the Night as Anne Lee
- 1933 From Hell to Heaven as Colly Tanner
- 1938 Fools for Scandal as Kay Winters
- 1982 Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
- 1933 White Woman as Judith Denning
- 1930 Safety in Numbers as Pauline
- 1934 Bolero as Helen Hathaway
- 1933 Brief Moment as Abby Fane Deane
- 1983 Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1932 No More Orchids as Annie Holt
- 1932 No One Man as Penelope 'Nep' Newbold
- 1928 Run, Girl, Run as Norma Nurmi
- 1934 The Gay Bride as Mary Magiz
- 1942 Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)
- 1930 Fast and Loose as Alice O'Neil
- 1931 Ladies' Man as Rachel Fendley
- 1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
- 1928 Smith's Army Life as Clarence's Wife
- 1928 Show Folks as Cleo (as Carol Lombard)
- 1927 Smith's Pony as Lillian Saunders
- 1925 Durand of the Bad Lands as Ellen Boyd
- 1925 Pretty Ladies as Showgirl (uncredited)
- 1931 Up Pops the Devil as Anne Merrick
- 1928 The Beach Club as Jump Rope Girl on Beach
- 1990 Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 Carole Lombard as Self (archive footage)
- 1935 Rumba as Diana Harrison
- 1930 The Arizona Kid as Virginia Hoyt
- 1935 The Fashion Side of Hollywood as Self - Diana Harrison (archive footage)
- 1927 The Fighting Eagle as (unconfirmed)
- 1994 That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1931 I Take This Woman as Kay Dowling
- 1927 My Best Girl as Flirty Blonde Salesgirl (uncredited)
- 1938 Breakdowns of 1938 as Kay Winters (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Slave Girl (uncredited)
- 2005 William Powell: A True Gentleman
- 1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
- 1938 Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
- 1928 Power as Another Dame (as Carol Lombard)
- 1928 His Unlucky Night as Peggy - Telephone Operator
- 1928 Me, Gangster as Blonde Rosie
- 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy as Mary Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
- 1928 The Best Man as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- 1926 The Johnstown Flood as Gloria's Bridesmaid (uncredited)
- 1925 The Plastic Age as Co-ed (uncredited)
- 1925 Dick Turpin as Crowd Extra (uncredited)
- 1926 The Road to Glory as Bit Part (as Carol Lombard)
- 1957 The Golden Age of Comedy as archive footage
- 1968 Dear Mr. Gable as Self (archive footage)
- 1924 Gold Heels as Bit (uncredited)
- 1975 Gable: The King Remembered as Self (archive footage)
- 1928 Motorboat Mamas as Automobile Passenger
- 2023 The Love Story of Jean Harlow and William Powell as Self (archive footage)
- 1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 as Self
- 1976 Bob Hope's World of Comedy as (archive footage)
- 1989 Two Tragic Blondes - Marilyn Monroe And Jean Harlow as Self (archive footage)
- 1990 Death In Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 1961 Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self - Actress 'Nothing Sacred' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1939 British Pathé Newsreels: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
- 2023 1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year ( 1 episode )
