Carole lambard biography
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Biography
Carole Lombard was an American actress noted for her roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She is listed as one of the American bio Institute's greatest stars of all time and was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s, earning around $500,000 per year.
In September 1938, several British newspapers reported that David O. Selznick had just purchased to the rights to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Lombard was named as the lead.
Lombard befriended Alfred Hitchcock's family when they moved to America, eventually persuading him to direct her in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941). After she married Clark Gable in 1939, the Hitchcocks rented her house at 609 St. Cloud Road, Bel Air.
Lombard's career was tragically cut short when she died at the age of 33 in an aircraft crash while returning from a World War II War Bond tour.[1]
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Carole Lombard
Twentieth-Century Star
Michelle Morgan,
Carole Lombard was the very opposite of the typical 1930s starlet. A no-nonsense woman, she worked hard, took no prisoners and had a great passion for life. As a result, she became Hollywood’s highest-paid star.
From the outside, Carole’s life was one of great glamour and fun, yet privately she endured much heartache. As a child, her mother moved Carole and her brothers across the country away from their beloved father. Carole then began a film career, only to have it cut short after a devastating bil accident. Picking herself back up, she was rocked by the accidental shooting of her lover; a failed marriage to actor William Powell; and the sorrow of infertility during her marriage to Hollywood’s King, Clark Gable.
Lombard marched forward, promising to be positive. Sadly her life was cut short in a plane crash so catastrophic that pieces of the aircraft are still buried in the mountain today. In Carole Lombard
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Jane Alice Peters became one of America’s favorite movie stars of the 1930s as Carole Lombard. She was born in Fort Wayne in 1908 and spent the first six years of her life in the shingle-style house on Rockhill Street that was built about the year 1905. Her grandfather was John Clouse Peters, one of the founders of the Horton Washing Machine Company, and her mother, “Bess” Knight, was a vivacious and strong actress descended from “Gentleman Jim” Chaney, an associate of the notorious robber baron of the 1880s, Jay Gould.
Described as a tomboy in her youth, Jane Alice fondly remembered her young days in Fort Wayne, attending the Washington Elementary School a few blocks to the south and playing rough games with her brothers, “Fritz” and “Tootie.” While the actress is remembered for her WWII work promoting war bonds, her philanthropic efforts began in Fort Wayne during the Great Flood of 1913. Under the direction of her mother, Bess, her house became a rescue center for flood victim