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Jun 2, 2013 · CAROLE LOMBARD 16mm CRASH FOOTAGE. 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...
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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 · Carole Lombard and Flight 3: A Movie Star’s Mysterious Death 3 minute read At the end of a long day, Carole poses with her mother, Elizabeth “Petey” Peters in the Claypool Hotel prior to ...
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 . Born into a wealthy family, Lombard was raised by her single mother. She made her screen debut in A Perfect Crime ...
