To Be or Not to Be
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Dec 16, 2013 · The blanket-wrapped body of film actress Carole Lombard is removed from the shattered wreckage of the Los Angeles-bound TWA airliner on Mount Potosi, southwest of Las Vegas, on Jan. 16, 1942....
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Gable and Lombard met in 1932 during the filming of No Man of Her Own. He was just starting out on his trajectory as one of Hollywoods top leading men and she was a talented comedic actress trying to prove herself in more serious roles. Both were married at the timeGable to a wealthy Texas widow 10 years his senior and Lombard to the actor William ...
On the way home, however, Lombard didnt want to wait for the train, and instead boarded the TWA DC-3 in Las Vegas with her mother, Elizabeth Peters, and a group that included the MGM publicity agent Otto Winkler and 15 young Army pilots. Shortly after takeoff, the plane veered off course. Warning beacons that might have helped guide the pilot had b...
Hysterical with grief and adrift in the empty house he had shared with Lombard, Gable drank heavily and struggled to complete his work on Somewhere Ill Find You. He was comforted by worried friends, including the actress Joan Crawford. That August, Gable decided to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Forces. He spent most of the war in the United Kingdom, ...
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Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
All 22 people on board, including movie star Carole Lombard, her mother, and three crew members, died in the crash. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigated the accident and determined that the cause was a navigation error by the captain.
Jan 16, 2017 · Was it just an accident? Or, given that the U.S. had been attacked at Pearl Harbor just a month earlier, was it something even darker? Had Lombard, the war-effort activist, been sabotaged by...
Jan 14, 2022 · Actress Carole Lombard enthusiastically threw herself into the war effort but tragically died due to her endeavors. Her tragic death made her one of Hollywood’s first casualties of the Second World War.
