Carole Lombard

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

117

Movies

106

Born: October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942
From: 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.

Works

106 films

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

19416.0

To Be or Not to Be

19427.8

That's Entertainment! III

19947.0

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

19257.3

My Man Godfrey

19367.6

In Name Only

19397.0

Me, Gangster

1928

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

Nothing Sacred

19376.3

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

19888.2

The Gay Bride

19346.0

Anthony Quinn: An Original

19906.8

Power

19288.0

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976

The Eagle and the Hawk

19336.7

The Golden Age of Comedy

19577.1

The Big Parade of Comedy

19647.2

The Princess Comes Across

19366.2

Made for Each Other

19396.1

Going Hollywood: The '30s

19849.0

Breakdowns of 1938

19385.8

Twentieth Century

19346.8

Hands Across the Table

19357.0

Up Pops the Devil

19315.0

Rumba

19356.5

The Campus Carmen

19286.0

Carole Lombard

2016

Hollywood Goes to Town

19387.0

Gold Heels

19248.0

The Best Man

19287.5

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

19826.0

Showbiz Goes to War

198210.0

No Man of Her Own

19326.6

Smith's Pony

19278.0

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

19614.4

William Powell: A True Gentleman

20057.5

Gable: The King Remembered

19756.5

Dear Mr. Gable

196810.0

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

Swing High, Swing Low

19375.3

My Best Girl

19277.1

Vigil in the Night

19405.9

We're Not Dressing

19346.7

The Girl from Everywhere

19277.0

The Plastic Age

19256.2

The Johnstown Flood

19267.0

Bolero

19346.4

Pretty Ladies

19255.8

Virtue

19326.6

Brief Moment

19333.8

Death In Hollywood

19906.8

Dick Turpin

19255.8

They Knew What They Wanted

19406.0

The Girl from Nowhere

19289.0

The Beach Club

192810.0

Now and Forever

19346.8

True Confession

19376.1

No More Orchids

19326.8

Fools for Scandal

19386.3

Matchmaking Mamma

19294.8

From Hell to Heaven

19337.8

Safety in Numbers

19305.5

No One Man

19326.5

The Fashion Side of Hollywood

19356.5

Love Before Breakfast

19366.1

Big News

19294.5

The Racketeer

19295.1

The Arizona Kid

19307.0

Man of the World

19316.2

The Fighting Eagle

19275.3

Sinners in the Sun

19324.9

Don't Get Jealous

19299.0

Supernatural

19336.2

White Woman

19335.8

Gold Digger of Weepah

19278.0

British Pathé Newsreels: Gone with the Wind

1939

High Voltage

19295.2

The Swim Princess

19287.0

Two Tragic Blondes - Marilyn Monroe And Jean Harlow

19899.0

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

20217.0

Lady by Choice

19346.9

The Road to Glory

19266.5

Smith's Army Life

19288.0

A Perfect Crime

19218.0

Fast and Loose

19305.3

Run, Girl, Run

19286.5

Yesterday and Today

19537.0

The Love Story of Jean Harlow and William Powell

2023

Durand of the Bad Lands

19257.0

The Campus Vamp

19286.3

Motorboat Mamas

19289.0

It Pays to Advertise

19315.6

Show Folks

19287.0

His Unlucky Night

192810.0

Hollywood on Parade No. A-12

1933

Ladies' Man

19314.6

I Take This Woman

19315.1

Gold and the Girl

192510.0

Hubby's Weekend Trip

19289.0

Marriage in Transit

19257.0

Smith's Restaurant

19287.0

Hearts and Spurs

192510.0

The Divine Sinner

19289.0

The Bicycle Flirt

192810.0

Ned McCobb's Daughter

19289.0