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Jan 16, 2017 · By all accounts, Carole Lombard should not have been on this plane in the first place. She had been advised to take a train home, given problematic weather and wartime fears, but insisted on ...
Dec 16, 2013 · The basics are well known to Las Vegans. Actress Carole Lombard died in a plane crash on Mount Potosi southwest of Las Vegas on Jan. 16, 1942, coming back from a trip selling war bonds just weeks a...
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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 19, 1992 · On a cold, clear night 50 years ago, a TWA plane lifted off from here on the last leg of a 17-hour flight carrying movie queen Carole Lombard home to Hollywood. Lombard, returning from a patriotic pilgrimage, would die minutes later in a fiery crash on Mount Potosi, 30 miles to the southwest.The Jan. 16, 1942, crash ended the storybook marriage ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mar 25, 2024 · The newspaper headlines read the unimaginable: “Carole Lombard, 21 Others, Killed in Plane Crash.”. But when TWA Flight 3 crashed into the side of a mountain on January 16, 1942, the actual tragedy was far more chilling than any headline could convey. In this patreon-exclusive layover episode of Take to the Sky: the Air Disaster Podcast ...
