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Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 - January 16,
1942) was an United States|American Actor|actress.
She was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne,
Indiana.

She made her film debut at the age of twelve when
she was spotted playing baseball in the street by
director Allan Dwan, who cast her as a tom-boy in
A Perfect Crime (1921). In the 1920s she worked in
several low-budget productions. In some of her
early movies she was credited as Jane Peters, and
then as Carol Lombard. In 1925 she was signed as a
contract player with 20th Century Fox. She also
worked for Mack Sennett and Pathé Pictures.  She
became a well known actress and managed to make a
smooth transition to sound films, starting with
High Voltage (1929 film)|High Voltage (1929). In
1930 she began working for Paramount Pictures.

In October 1930 she met William Powell and then
eight months later they were married on June 26,
1931. Carole age 23 and William age 39 were
married for 23 months but divorced in 1933. They
stayed friends and film partners. 

Carole Lombard became one of Hollywood's top
comedy actresses in the 1930s. In comedies like
Twentieth Century (film)|Twentieth Century (1934)
by Howard Hawks, My Man Godfrey (1936) by Gregory
La Cava, for which she received an Academy Award
for Best Actress nomination, and Nothing Sacred
(1937) by William A. Wellman, she proved a
marvellous comedic talent, and a rare class. 

In the middle 1930s Carole Lombard started an
affair with  Clark Gable. Between the two actors
there was a sincere and passionate sentiment.
After their marriage in 1939, they bought and
lived in a ranching|ranch in San Fernando Valley,
California. They nicknamed each other Ma and Pa
and were role modeled  as the ideal marriage.

When at the end of 1941 the US entered World War
II, Carole went home to Indiana for a war bond
rally. At four o'clock in the morning of Friday,
January 16, 1942, Lombard and her mother boarded
the plane home to California. After refueling in
Las Vegas, the plane took off on a clear night,
and twenty-three minutes later crashed into a
mountainside 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas. All
of the 23 passengers aboard were killed. Just
before boarding the plane in Indiana, Carole had
addressed her fans, saying, "Before I say goodbye
to you all, come on and join me in a big cheer! V
for Victory!" President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt, who admired her
patriotism, declared her the first woman killed in
the line of duty during the war and posthumously
awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The
Liberty ship SS Lombard was named for her, and
Gable attended its launch on January 15 1944.

Her final film, To Be or Not to Be (film)|To Be or
Not to Be, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and
co-starring Jack Benny - a witty satire about the
Nazism and the World War II|War -, was in
post-production at the time of her death. In this
movie she gave what many regard as her best
perfomance, at the same time ironic and intense.
The film's producers decided to cut part of the
film in which her character asks, "What can happen
in a plane?"

She is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Cemetery in Glendale, California.  Although Gable
remarried, he was buried next to her when he died
in 1960.

==Filmography==


*A Perfect Crime (1921)
*Gold Heels (1924)
*Dick Turpin (1925 film)|Dick Turpin (1925)
*Marriage in Transit (1925)
*Gold and the Girl (1925)
*Hearts and Spurs (1925)
*Durand of the Badlands (1925)
*The Plastic Age (1925)
*The Road to Glory (1926)
*The Johnstown Flood (1926)
*The Fighting Eagle (1927) (unconfirmed role)
*Smith's Pony (1927) (short subject)
*Gold Digger of Weepah (1927) (short subject)
*My Best Girl (1927)
*The Girl from Everywhere (1927) (short subject)
*The Beach Club (1928) (short subject)
*Run, Girl, Run (1928) (short subject)
*Smith's Army Life (1928) (short subject)
*The Best Man (1928) (short subject)
*The Swim Princess (1928) (short subject)
*The Bicycle Flirt (1928) (short subject)
*Smith's Restaurant (1928) (short subject)
*The Divine Sinner (1928)
*The Girl from Nowhere (1928) (short subject)
*His Unlucky Night (1928) (short subject)
*Power (1928 film)|Power (1928)
*The Campus Vamp (1928) (short subject)
*Motorboat Mamas (1928) (short subject)
*Me, Gangster (1928)
*Show Folks (1928)
*Hubby's Weekend Trip (1928) (short subject)
*The Campus Carmen (1928) (short subject)
*Ned McCobb's Daughter (1928) 
*Matchmaking Mamas (1929) (short subject)
*Don't Get Jealous (1929) (short subject)
*High Voltage (1929 film)|High Voltage (1929)
*Big News (1929)
*The Racketeer (1929)
*Dynamite (1929 film)|Dynamite (1929) (unconfirmed
role)
*The Arizona Kid (1930)
*Safety in Numbers (1930)
*Fast and Loose (1930 film)|Fast and Loose (1930)
*It Pays to Advertise (1931)
*Man of the World (1931)
*Ladies' man|Ladies' Man (1931)
*Up Pops the Devil (1931)
*I Take This Woman (1931)
*No One Man (1932)
*Sinners in the Sun (1932)
*Virtue (1932 film)|Virtue (1932)
*No More Orchids (1932)
*No Man of Her Own (1932)
*Hollywood on Parade No. 11 (1933) (short subject)
*From Hell to Heaven (1933)
*Supernatural (1933 film)|Supernatural (1933)
*The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
*Brief Moment (1933)
*White Woman (1933)
*Bolero (1934 film)|Bolero (1934)
*We're Not Dressing (1934)
*Twentieth Century (film)|Twentieth Century (1934)
*Now and Forever (1934)
*Lady by Choice (1934)
*The Gay Bride (1934)
*The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935) (short
subject)
*Rumba (1935 film)|Rumba (1935)
*Hands Across the Table (1935)
*Love Before Breakfast (1936)
*The Princess Comes Across (1936)
*My Man Godfrey (1936)
*Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
*Nothing Sacred (film)|Nothing Sacred (1937)
*True Confession (1937)
*Fools for Scandal (1938)
*Hollywood Goes to Town (1938) (short subject)
*Screen Snapshots: Stars on Horseback (1939)
(short subject)
*Made for Each Other (1939)
*In Name Only (1939)
*Vigil in the Night (1940)
*They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
*Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film)|Mr. and Mrs. Smith
(1941)
*Picture People: Hollywood at Home (1942) (short
subject)
*To Be or Not to Be (1942 film)|To Be or Not to Be
(1942)

== Notes ==
Carol Lombard was a second generation Baha'i who
formally declared her membership of the Baha'i
Faith in 1938.#Notes|1

# The Baha'i World 1940-1944 pp.635. Baha'i
Publishing Trust, Wilmette

==External link==
* http://www.classicactresses.com/carolel.html
Carole Lombard at Classic Actresses
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