Carole Lombard Biography
Born: October 06, 1908
Died: January 19, 1942
When Carole Lombard died at the age of 34 in a plane crash following a World War II war bond drive, the American film industry lost one of its most talented and intelligent actresses. Starting out in silent films as a Mack_Sennett bathing beauty, she later epitomized screwball comedy in Twentieth_Century (1934); My_Man_Godfrey (1936), for which she was Oscar nominated as Irene Bullock, with ex-husband William_Powell as Godfrey; and Nothing_Sacred (1937), playing the not-so-doomed Hazel Flagg. But Lombard was also a capable dramatic actress whose talents can be seen in her subdued performance as a nurse in one of her final roles, in Vigil in the Night (1940), as well as in The Eagle and the Hawk (1933), In_Name_Only (1939) and They_Knew_What_They_Wanted (1940). Other fine appearances include teaming with Fred MacMurray in several films, the best of which are Hands Across the Table (1935) and The_Princess_Comes_Across (1936), in which Lombard does a humorously accurate Greta Garbo takeoff. Her two final films contain two of her best performances: Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1940) and the Ernst_Lubitsch war satire, To Be or Not To Be (1942). She was married to William_Powell from 1931-33 and to Clark_Gable from 1939 til her death. Rovi
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