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