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Jun 2, 2013 · TWA Flight 3 plane crash aftermath filmed on Mount Potosi near Good Springs, Nevada on the morning of January 17, 1942, following the crash the evening befor...
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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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Jan 16, 2017 · By Liz Ronk. January 16, 2017 11:00 AM EST. O n Jan. 16, 1942, Carole Lombard was best known as a screwball comedy actress. But not only was Lombard the highest paid actress of her time—starring ...
Jan 10, 2017 · Old movie reel footage from Paramount reporting on the plane crash that Carole Lombard was on and briefly covering her life. I do not own this.
Carole Lombard's blanket-wrapped body is removed from the crash site on Potosi Mountain on Jan. 18, 1942. (AP Photo)
Jan 15, 2017 · Carole Lombard, the blond, screwball movie star whose marriage to Clark Gable three years earlier had been front-page news, and 21 others perished when a TWA prop plane crashed on the night of Jan ...
