After several of her friends suffered small ailments around the same time, Carole Lombard sensed a theme. For her “Hospital Party,” she greeted her guests at the door dressed as a nurse, handed each a ...
Just after their 1939 marriage, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable purchased a 20-acre ranch in then-sparsely populated Encino, California. While her husband filmed Gone With the Wind, the actress oversaw ...
Lombard's widower Clark Gable was in a strong legal position to sue the airline for a substantial payout. But too grief-stricken to go through a court case, he settled his claim for just $10. The ...
Fans knew Carole Lombard as the “screwball queen” and the “profane angel,” but when she wasn’t providing the laughs on screen she was living the glamorous high life, engaging in behind-the-scenes ...
Carole Lombard in Publicity Photo for "To Be or Not to Be" (CREDIT: Getty Images) Julien’s Auctions, the Beverly Hills-based company that specializes in movie memorabilia, drew sharp criticism on ...
The article, Sept. 24, 1925, told of “The Plastic Age,” a motion picture filmed during the summer on the campus of Claremont’s Pomona College. The silent picture, based on a racy novel by Percy Marks, ...
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard met first in 1932, while making a picture called No Man of Her Own. Gable was then a novice leading man, only four years removed from the career of bumming, ...
We may never know exactly where Clark Gable and Hoosier Carole Lombard spent their honeymoon, but there are two popular stories. One story is that the famous couple spent their honeymoon at Big Barbee ...