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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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Mar 8, 2019 · 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...
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- MYSTERIOUS LIFE
Jan 10, 2017 · Carole Lombard Paramount Death Report Footage - YouTube. retrotreasures. 710 subscribers. Subscribed. 129. 14K views 7 years ago. Old movie reel footage from Paramount reporting on the...
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Jan 19, 2012 · 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. Wreckage was scattered in a radius of 500 yards and some of the victims were strewn around the waist-high ...
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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 ...
May 25, 2020 · Daily Variety editor Arthur Ungar penned a page-one tribute to Lombard that led the Jan. 19, 1942, edition. “Carole Lombard died in the line of duty. She was the first casualty of show business ...
