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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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Mar 8, 2019 · 311K views 5 years ago. Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American film actress. She was particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat...
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Jan 10, 2017 · retrotreasures. 710 subscribers. Subscribed. 129. 14K views 7 years ago. Old movie reel footage from Paramount reporting on the plane crash that Carole Lombard was on and briefly covering her...
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Jan 19, 2012 · Lombard’s Body Recovered From Crash. Jan. 19, 1942: The Times’ Gene Sherman reports from the scene of the crash that killed Carole Lombard and 21 others: “The totally demolished luxurious Douglas DC-3 Skyclub presented a grim, sorrowful picture on its rocky resting place.
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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 · 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. By...
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 ...
