Carole Lombard got her first one-film contract at age 12. Within a few years, she was playing theater roles before signing with the studio in 1925. Working in a series of films during the ’20s, her silky voice enabled her to transition seamlessly to “talkies” when sound became part of movies in the late ’20s. She played in many 1930s comedies and soon commanded one of the top salaries of the time. She married Clark Gable in 1939, and she was flying back from a WW II war bonds rally in the Midwest when her plane crashed. She was only 33. Here, she’s on set with Gary Cooper in the 1931 film I Take This Woman.
Hi everyone! I have loved old films since I was a small child and would tap dance around the culdesac of my street in Los Angeles hoping that a director would drive by and discover me. I later became a Theater Arts major.
I put my dreams of acting aside when I became a mother and my children became my main focus. As fate would have it my eldest daughter became a child actor and played Keanu Reeves little sister in the film River's Edge.
My second husband was an Emmy winning lighting director and screen writer.
I have always been on the peripheral of the entertainment industry and it gives me great pleasure to post pictures and information about old Hollywood which I hope you enjoy. Please feel free to not only follow but make any comments that you would like on my website.
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