Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard - born as Jane Alice Peters on October 6, 1908, died January 16, 1942, in a airplane crash in Nevada while returning from a war bond promotion tour.

Carole Lombard did not invent the platinum-haired, acerbic American girl of 1930's Hollywood movies that rapidly issued observant wise-cracks while the plot rolled forward around her (Jean Harlow already had a head start with that onscreen tic) but Lombard perfected it until she was by the late 1930s the highest paid actress in Hollywood (and married to reigning 'King of Hollywood' Clark Gable).

Carole (also billed as 'Carol' in early films) Lombard is probably best know for her portrayal of the neurotic and fearless Irene Bullock in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey in 1936, opposite William Powell (who had been her husband from 1931-1933).

Original Page June 2015 | Updated Dec 2017

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