The plane crash that killed her took place less than a month before the Oscars. Despite her mother's premonition of the disaster, she refused to take a train to Los Angeles. She was reputedly in a rush after getting wind of an alleged affair between her husband Clark Gable and Lana Turner who were filming Somewhere I'll Find You at the time.
The decision to take the plane was decided literally by the flip of a coin, with Carole winning the toss. The school currently exists as Virgil Middle School on Vermont Avenue, one block from the original school.
The Inn continues to operate and anyone can stay in the same room, called "The Library Suite". The room remains largely unaltered since the Gables stayed there more than 60 years ago. Carol Lynley born as Carole Jones a month after the actress' death was named after Lombard. She had a little dachshund named Commissioner that ignored Clark Gable completely. After her death in , the dog would not leave his side.
Excited, she sent a copy of the book to Gable, with a note attached reading "Let's do it! Gable wrongly assumed she was making a sexual advance to him, and called Carole to organize a date.
When he found out Carole wanted to make a film of the book with him as Rhett Butler and herself as Scarlett, he refused, and kept the copy of the book she had given him thereafter in his toilet. Was elected "May Queen" in Quit soon thereafter to pursue acting full time. She was often doubled by her old school friend, Dixie Pantages. Dixie had an even more unusual background than Carole herself did: she was born in extreme poverty, but when her mother died, she was adopted by the wealthy Pantages family so that their own daughter, a childhood playmate of Dixie's, could have a sister.
When that happened, her name changed legally from Dixie Nelson to Dixie Pantages as a result of the adoption becoming legal. Twice turned down opportunities to play a newspaperwoman, in Mr. The roles brought their respective actresses Jean Arthur and Rosalind Russell considerable attention.
According to Garson Kanin , she never had a dressing room when shooting a movie. Instead, she preferred to socialize with the cast and crew members during her breaks.
After her death, the Van Nuys News ran an unusual front page tribute: "Down deep in their hearts, those who had chatted with her over the back fence or across a garden row knew that Carole Lombard wanted more than anything else to be a model housewife and a good neighbor. And she was just that. She was a loveable person, just as much at home in blue denims and ginghams as she was in furs and jewels. She was good friends with Gloria Swanson. Claudette Colbert was then given the role and won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance.
Silverman One of her classmates at drama school was Sally Eilers. During the tour of Hearst's Castle in San Simeon, California, visitors are shown a second-floor bedroom where, the story goes, Lombard and Clark Gable spent their wedding night. It's a room with a beautiful view, and a huge water storage tank rests hidden above it. The water was gravity-fed from an adjoining hill to provide water to the estate. She was credited with the invention of the slang terms "she's so blonde" and "dumb blonde", due in part to the fact that she played several blonde scatterbrains during the s and mids.
The aircraft flew into an almost vertical rock cliff, near the top of Potosi Mountain in the Spring Mountain Range. The three crew members and 19 passengers were all killed.
The official accident report states that the crash was caused by "the failure of the captain after departure from Las Vegas to follow the proper course by making use of the navigational facilities available to him". She preferred the company of the grips, electricians and other off-camera workers to that of other actors. In her conversations with them, she could and did swear like a trooper.
According to Penny Stallings' "Flesh and Fantasy", Lombard drew a shadow along her natural cleavage line and lightened the top of her breasts to make them look larger. Became pregnant by her husband Clark Gable , but suffered a miscarriage in August Due to deadlines for syndicated columns, "On the Sets with Reed Johnston" reported on 20 January that Lombard and Mickey Rooney would be making appearances at Defense Bond and War Fund rallies - four days after her death in an airliner crash.
I've lived by a man's code designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time, I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.
If the picture's a huge hit, he'll get the credit and, if it's a flop, I'll be blamed. That's why I never talk about it. I think it's all here--in the mountains and the desert. I don't think God is a softie, either. In the end, it's better if people are forced back into--well--into being right, before they're too far gone.
I think your temple is your everyday living. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship -- a calm companionship which can last through the years. I enjoy this country. I like the parks and the highways and the good schools and everything that this government does.
After all, every cent anybody pays in taxes is spent to benefit him. Jump to: Actress Soundtrack Self Archive footage. Hide Show Actress 78 credits. Smith Ann. Hide Show Soundtrack 8 credits. Hide Show Self 8 credits. A Short Self. Hide Show Archive footage 56 credits.
Self uncredited. Self - Subject. Video documentary Self. Gable Documentary. Irene Bullock. A Short Self uncredited. Related Videos. See more ». Height: 5' 6" 1. Spouse: Clark Gable her death See more ». Parents: Frederick C. Peters Elizabeth Knight. Edit Did You Know? Personal Quote: [on the concept of God] I don't seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That's why I never talk about it. Carole Lombard was an American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the s, most notably in the film My Man Godfrey.
Her parents were Frederick C. Peters and Elizabeth Knight. Lombard was the youngest of three children, having two older brothers. She spent her early childhood in a sprawling, two-story house at Rockhill Street in Fort Wayne, near the St.
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