Carole Lombard
88 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 6, 1908
- Died
- Jan 16, 1942 (age 33)
- Place of birth
- Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
- Also known as
- Кэрол Ломбард · Carol Lombard · Jane Peters · Jane Alice Peters
Biography
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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 roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. She was the third wife of actor Clark Gable.
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Lombard was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised in Los Angeles by her single mother. At 12, she was recruited by the film director Allan Dwan and made her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921). Eager to become an actress, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation at age 16, but mainly played bit parts. She was dropped by Fox after a car accident left a scar on her face. Lombard appeared in 15 short comedies for Mack Sennett between 1927 and 1929, and then began appearing in feature films such as High Voltage and The Racketeer. After a successful appearance in The Arizona Kid (1930), she was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures.
Paramount quickly began casting Lombard as a leading lady, primarily in drama films. Her profile increased when she married William Powell in 1931, but the couple divorced after two years. A turning point in Lombard's career came when she starred in Howard Hawks' pioneering screwball comedy Twentieth Century (1934). The actress found her niche in this genre, and continued to appear in films such as Hands Across the Table (1935) (forming a popular partnership with Fred MacMurray), My Man Godfrey (1936), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Nothing Sacred (1937). At this time, Lombard married "the King of Hollywood", Clark Gable, and the supercouple gained much attention from the media. Keen to win an Oscar, at the end of the decade, Lombard began to move towards more serious roles. Unsuccessful in this aim, she returned to comedy in Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942)—her final film role.
Lombard's career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 in an airplane crash on Mount Potosi, Nevada while returning from a war bond tour. Today, she is remembered as one of the definitive actresses of the screwball comedy genre and American comedy, and ranks among the American Film Institute's greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
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Known for
Carole Lombard: movies and TV shows
Acting (89)
- 2023
- 2005
- 1994 That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
- 1982 Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
- 1976 Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as (archive footage)
- 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy
as Mary Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
- 1957 The Golden Age of Comedy
as archive footage
- 1953 Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
- 1942 To Be or Not to Be
as Maria Tura
- 1941 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Ann
- 1940 They Knew What They Wanted
as Amy Peters
- 1940 Vigil in the Night
as Anne Lee
- 1939 In Name Only
as Julie Eden
- 1939 Made for Each Other
as Jane Mason
- 1938 Breakdowns of 1938
as Kay Winters (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1938 Fools for Scandal
as Kay Winters
- 1937 True Confession
as Helen Bartlett
- 1937 Nothing Sacred
as Hazel Flagg
- 1937 Swing High, Swing Low
as Maggie King
- 1936 My Man Godfrey
as Irene Bullock
- 1936 The Princess Comes Across
as Princess Olga / Wanda Nash
- 1936 Love Before Breakfast
as Kay Colby
- 1935 Hands Across the Table
as Regi Allen
- 1935 Rumba
as Diana Harrison
- 1934 The Gay Bride
as Mary Magiz
- 1934 Lady by Choice
as Alabam Lee
- 1934 Now and Forever
as Toni Day
- 1934 Twentieth Century
as Lily Garland, formerly Mildred Plotka
- 1934 We're Not Dressing
as Doris Worthington
- 1934 Bolero
as Helen Hathaway
- 1933 White Woman
as Judith Denning
- 1933 Brief Moment
as Abby Fane Deane
- 1933 The Eagle and the Hawk
as The Beautiful Lady
- 1933 Supernatural
as Roma Courtney
- 1933 From Hell to Heaven
as Colly Tanner
- 1932 No Man of Her Own
as Connie Randall
- 1932 No More Orchids
as Annie Holt
- 1932 Virtue
as Mae
- 1932 Sinners in the Sun
as Doris Blake
- 1932 No One Man
as Penelope 'Nep' Newbold
- 1931 I Take This Woman
as Kay Dowling
- 1931 Up Pops the Devil
as Anne Merrick
- 1931 Ladies' Man
as Rachel Fendley
- 1931 Man of the World
as Mary Kendall
- 1931 It Pays to Advertise
as Mary Grayson
- 1930 Fast and Loose
as Alice O'Neil
- 1930 Safety in Numbers
as Pauline
- 1930 The Arizona Kid
as Virginia Hoyt
- 1929 The Racketeer
as Rhoda Philbrooke
- 1929 Big News
as Margaret Banks
- 1929 High Voltage
as Billie ("Phyllis")
- 1929 Don't Get Jealous
as Girl at Shoeshine Stand (uncredited)
- 1929 Matchmaking Mamma
as Phyllis
- 1928 Ned McCobb's Daughter
as Jennie
- 1928 The Campus Vamp
as Carole (as Carol Lombard)
- 1928 Hubby's Weekend Trip
as Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1928 Show Folks
as Cleo (as Carol Lombard)
- 1928 Me, Gangster
as Blonde Rosie
- 1928 Motorboat Mamas
as Automobile Passenger (uncredited) / Automobile Passenger
- 1928 Power
as Another Dame (as Carol Lombard)
- 1928 The Campus Carmen
as Carole
- 1928 Smith's Restaurant
as Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1928 His Unlucky Night
as Peggy - Telephone Operator
- 1928 The Girl from Nowhere
as Miss Boyle - Dress Shop Owner
- 1928 The Divine Sinner
as Millie Claudert
- 1928 The Bicycle Flirt
as Mabel - The Wife's Sister
- 1928 The Swim Princess
as Trudy - the Swim Star
- 1928 The Best Man
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- 1928 Smith's Army Life
as Clarence's Wife
- 1928 The Beach Club
as Jump Rope Girl on Beach
- 1928 Run, Girl, Run
as Norma Nurmi
- 1927 The Girl from Everywhere
as Vera Veranda - Miss Anybody
- 1927 My Best Girl
as Flirty Blonde Salesgirl (uncredited)
- 1927 Gold Digger of Weepah
as Fortune Teller (uncredited)
- 1927 Smith's Pony
as Lillian Saunders
- 1927 The Fighting Eagle
as (unconfirmed)
- 1926 The Johnstown Flood
as Gloria's Bridesmaid (uncredited)
- 1926 The Road to Glory
as Bit Part (as Carol Lombard)
- 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Slave Girl (uncredited)
- 1925 The Plastic Age
as Co-ed (uncredited)
- 1925 Durand of the Bad Lands
as Ellen Boyd
- 1925 Pretty Ladies
as Showgirl (uncredited)
- 1925 Hearts and Spurs
as Sybil Estabrook
- 1925
- 1925 Marriage in Transit
as Celia Hathaway
- 1925 Dick Turpin
as Crowd Extra (uncredited)
- 1924 Gold Heels
as Bit (uncredited)
- 1921 A Perfect Crime
as Griggs' Kid Sister
Talk shows and appearances (18)
- 2023
- 2021
- 2016
- 1990
- 1990
- 1989
- 1988
- 1983
- 1982
- 1975
- 1975
- 1968
- 1961
- 1942
- 1939
- 1938
- 1935
- 1933