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).
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- Fiend Without A Face - 1958
- The Major and the Minor - 1942
- Panique - 1946
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 1931
- Secret of the Incas - 1954
- So Proudly We Hail - 1943
- A Haunting in Venice - 2023
- Tormented - 1960
- Killers of the Flower Moon, 2023
- Dangerous Blondes, 1943
- Disputed Passage, 1939
- La Fortuna Di Essere Donna – 1956 with Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and Charles Boyer
- When the Daltons Rode 1940
- Mandalay - 1934 - with Kay Francis
- Roman Holiday - 1953
- The Last Thing He Told Me
- The Madonna's Secret – 1946
- Gorilla at Large – 1953
- Internes Can't Take Money - 1937
- The Snake Woman - 1961
- She Devil – 1957
- Enter Santo - The Blue Ray Box Set
- Cyclotrode X – 1966
- L'emmerdeur (aka A Pain in the Ass) – 1973