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person_profile-Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard Died at age: 33

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Oct 06, 1908

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 16, 1942

Biography of

Carole Lombard

    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.

Photos of

Carole Lombard

Photos ( 11 Photos

Filmography of

Carole Lombard

Found 81 Movies in total

Carole Lombard

Herself ( Actor )

... 2016

That's Entertainment! III

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1994

Anthony Quinn: An Original

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1988

Going Hollywood: The '30s

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1984

Zelig

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1983

Showbiz Goes to War

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1982

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1982

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1975

Gable: The King Remembered

Herself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1975

Dear Mr. Gable

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1968

Hollywood My Home Town

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1965

The Love Goddesses

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1965

The Big Parade of Comedy

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1964

Hollywood Without Make-Up

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1963

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

'Nothing Sacred' (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1961

The Golden Age of Comedy

archive footage ( Actor )

... 1957

Yesterday and Today

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1953

To Be or Not to Be

Maria Tura ( Actor )

... 1942

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Ann ( Actor )

... 1941

They Knew What They Wanted

Amy Peters ( Actor )

... 1940

Vigil in the Night

Anne Lee ( Actor )

... 1940

In Name Only

Julie Eden ( Actor )

... 1939

Made for Each Other

Jane Mason ( Actor )

... 1939

Fools for Scandal

Kay Winters ( Actor )

... 1938

True Confession

Helen Bartlett ( Actor )

... 1937

Nothing Sacred

Hazel Flagg ( Actor )

... 1937

Swing High, Swing Low

Maggie King ( Actor )

... 1937

My Man Godfrey

Irene Bullock ( Actor )

... 1936

The Princess Comes Across

Princess Olga / Wanda Nash ( Actor )

... 1936

Love Before Breakfast

Kay Colby ( Actor )

... 1936

Hands Across the Table

Regi Allen ( Actor )

... 1935

Rumba

Diana Harrison ( Actor )

... 1935

The Gay Bride

Mary Magiz ( Actor )

... 1934

Lady by Choice

Alabam Lee ( Actor )

... 1934

Now and Forever

Toni Carstairs Day ( Actor )

... 1934

Twentieth Century

Lily Garland, formerly Mildred Plotka ( Actor )

... 1934

We're Not Dressing

Doris Worthington ( Actor )

... 1934

Bolero

Helen Hathaway ( Actor )

... 1934

White Woman

Judith Denning ( Actor )

... 1933

Brief Moment

Abby Fane Deane ( Actor )

... 1933

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Beautiful Lady ( Actor )

... 1933

Supernatural

Roma Courtney ( Actor )

... 1933

From Hell to Heaven

Colly Tanner ( Actor )

... 1933

No Man of Her Own

Connie Randall ( Actor )

... 1932

No More Orchids

Annie Holt ( Actor )

... 1932

Virtue

Mae ( Actor )

... 1932

Sinners in the Sun

Doris Blake ( Actor )

... 1932

No One Man

Penelope 'Nep' Newbold ( Actor )

... 1932

I Take This Woman

Kay Dowling ( Actor )

... 1931

Up Pops the Devil

Anne Merrick ( Actor )

... 1931

Ladies' Man

Rachel Fendley ( Actor )

... 1931

Man of the World

Mary Kendall ( Actor )

... 1931

It Pays to Advertise

Mary Grayson ( Actor )

... 1931

Fast and Loose

Alice O'Neil ( Actor )

... 1930

Safety in Numbers

Pauline ( Actor )

... 1930

The Arizona Kid

Virginia Hoyt ( Actor )

... 1930

The Racketeer

Rhoda Philbrooke ( Actor )

... 1929

Big News

Margaret Banks ( Actor )

... 1929

High Voltage

Billie ("Phyllis") ( Actor )

... 1929

Ned McCobb's Daughter

Jennie ( Actor )

... 1928

Me, Gangster

Blonde Rosie ( Actor )

... 1928

Show Folks

Cleo (as Carol Lombard) ( Actor )

... 1928

Power

Another Dame (as Carol Lombard) ( Actor )

... 1928

The Divine Sinner

Millie Claudert ( Actor )

... 1928

The Girl from Everywhere

Vera Veranda - Miss Anybody ( Actor )

... 1927

My Best Girl

Flirty Blonde Salesgirl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1927

The Johnstown Flood

One of Gloria's Four Friends / Bridesmaid (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1926

The Road to Glory

Bit Part (as Carol Lombard) ( Actor )

... 1926

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Slave Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1925

The Plastic Age

Co-ed (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1925

Durand of the Bad Lands

Ellen Boyd ( Actor )

... 1925

Pretty Ladies

Showgirl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1925

Hearts and Spurs

Sybil Estabrook ( Actor )

... 1925

... 1925

Marriage in Transit

Celia Hathaway ( Actor )

... 1925

Dick Turpin

Crowd Extra (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1925

Gold Heels

Bit (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1924

A Perfect Crime

Griggs' Kid Sister (as Jane Peters) ( Actor )

... 1921