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Jan 16, 2017 · But instead of returning home to California, they met an unfortunate and untimely death when the plane they were on, Flight 3, crashed into the side of the treacherous Mount Potosi in Nevada.
Jan 10, 2002 · When Gable died in 1960 at age 59, he was buried beside Lombard at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif. At the time of Lombard's death, Rocha said, many shared Gable's heartache. "Their ...
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May 25, 2020 · May 25, 2020 6:30am PT. How Carole Lombard Became Hollywood’s First Casualty of World War II. Beloved star died in plane crash after launching the nation's first war bond sales drive. By...
- Married to Clark Gable
- A Warning
- Potosi Mountain Tragedy
When the United States entered the Second World War in December 1941, Carole Lombard was married to actor Clark Gable, who was the chairman of the actor’s branch of the Hollywood Victory Committee. The duo starred in the 1932 film No Man of Her Own together, but at the time, both were married. Years later, the duo rekindled their friendship which e...
Howard Dietz advised Lombard not to travel by plane, as he feared the reliability and safety of aircraft at the time. Lombard listened to his advice for most of her trip, traveling through Indiana by train. For her tour, the Treasury Department had given her the goal of raising $500,000– a goal which she smashed. In one evening, Lombard raised $2 m...
On the night of January 16, 1942, the TWA DC-3 plane stopped for a refuel in Las Vegas, which at the time was only a small town with a small airport. However, shortly after the plane took off again, it crashed into a small cliff near the top of Potosi Mountain. The crash killed all 22 people on boardinstantly. Upon hearing news of the crash, MGM’s ...
Oct 27, 2019 · She died with her mother and 20 other people who were aboard the plane that crashed in Nevada on January 16, 1942, according to IDMB. "Lombard today is remembered, when she's remembered, as the love of Clark Gable's life..." Carole Lombard, circa 1933. | Photo: Getty Images.
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Jan 16, 2022 · The Screwball Girl. Remembering Carole Lombard. Carole Lombard died eighty years ago today. She was returning to Los Angeles from a successful WWII defense bonds tour in Indiana, which was organized by the Hollywood Victory Committee in support of the U.S. war effort. She, along with 21 others including her mother, Elizabeth Peters, and MGM ...
