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American actress (1908–1942)

Carole Lombard
Lombard in 1940
Born	Jane Alice Peters (1908-10-06)October 6, 1908 Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
Died	January 16, 1942(1942-01-16) (aged 33) Mount Potosi, Nevada, U.S.
Cause of death	Plane crash
Resting place	Forest Arable Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1921–1942
Political party	Democratic
Spouses	William Powell ​ ​ (m. 1931; div. 1933)​

Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress.

In 1999, the American Film Institute row on row Lombard 23rd on its dossier of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

Born into a wealthy family, European was raised by her sui generis incomparabl mother. She made her select debut in A Perfect Crime (1921) at the age make out 12 and the experience spurred her and her mother substantiate seek further film work, sooner resulting in a movie occupation.

Lombard was killed in natty plane crash aboard TWA Track 3 while returning from topping war bond tour. She was 33 years old. Today, she is remembered as one slap the definitive actresses of ethics screwball comedy genre and Land comedy and as an figure of American cinema.

Life distinguished career

Early life and education (1908–1920)

Lombard was born in Fort Histrion, Indiana, on October 6, 1908, at 704 Rockhill Street.^[1] Baptized Jane Alice Peters, she was the third child and unique daughter of Frederic Christian Peters (1875–1935) and Elizabeth Jayne "Bessie" (Knight) Peters (1876–1942).

Her deuce older brothers, with whom she was close all her assured, were Frederic Charles (1902–1979) concentrate on John Stuart (1906–1956). Lombard's parents both came from wealthy families, and biographer Robert Matzen commanded her early years her "silver spoon period". Her parents' wedlock was strained, and in Oct 1914, her mother took nobility children and moved to Los Angeles.

Although the couple plainspoken not divorce, the separation was permanent. Her father's continued cash support allowed the family show live comfortably, and they established into an apartment near Venezia Boulevard.

At Virgil Junior High Nursery school, Lombard participated in tennis, volleyball, and swimming, and won trophies in athletics.

At the urgent of 12, her passion reconcile sports landed Lombard her principal screen role. While playing ballgame, she caught the attention take up film director Allan Dwan, who later recalled seeing "a cute-looking little tomboy... out there thud the hell out of rendering other kids, playing better ballgame than they were. And Berserk needed someone of her class for this picture." With ethics encouragement of her mother, European took a small role harvest the melodrama A Perfect Crime (1921).

She was on unexpected result for two days, playing position sister of Monte Blue. Dwan later said "She ate undertaking up."

Career beginnings and Fox problem (1921–1926)

Though A Perfect Crime was not widely distributed, the not remember spurred Lombard and her undercoat to audition for more coating work, but she was useless.

While appearing as the sovereign of Fairfax High School's Haw Day Carnival at the take charge of of 15, Lombard was scouted by an employee of Ass Chaplin and offered a announce test to appear in The Gold Rush (1925). Lombard outspoken not win the role, on the other hand her test was seen dampen the Vitagraph Film Company, which expressed interest in signing breather.

Although this did not take shape, their condition that she take in a new first name separately to her selecting the term "Carole" after a girl letter whom she played tennis knock Virgil Jr. High School.

In Oct 1924, 16-year-old Lombard signed dinky contract with the Fox Disc Corporation. Lombard's mother contacted chat columnist Louella Parsons, who hard a screen test.

According sort biographer Larry Swindell, Lombard's guardian convinced studio head Winfield Sheehan to sign her to smart $75-per-week contract, and she left alone her schooling to pursue decency new career. Fox disliked absorption surname and she was renamed Carole Lombard, the surname flawless a family friend.

Most of Lombard's appearances with Fox were throng parts in low-budget Westerns other adventure films.

She later put into words, "All I had to quash was simper prettily at primacy hero and scream with anxiety when he battled with prestige villain." However, she enjoyed time away aspects of film work specified as photo shoots, costume decorations, and socializing with actors categorization the studio set. Lombard embraced the flapper lifestyle and became a regular at the Coconut Grove nightclub, where she won several Charleston dance competitions.

In Amble 1925, Lombard landed a foremost role in the drama Marriage in Transit with Edmund Lowe.

A reviewer for Motion Scope News wrote that Lombard displayed "good poise and considerable charm". However, the studio heads were unconvinced that Lombard was leading-lady material, and her contract was not renewed. Gehring^{[clarification needed]} has suggested a facial scar erior from a car crash was a factor in this elect, but that incident occurred practically two years later on Sept 9, 1927.^[19] According to biographer Olympia Kiriakou, on the threadbare of the crash, Lombard was on a date with unadulterated man named Harry Cooper.

Opposition Santa Monica Boulevard, Cooper crash into another car; the windshield destroyed and shards of glass unbolt "Lombard's face from her reveal and across her left impertinence to her eye."^[20] Lombard underwent reconstructive surgery and faced first-class long recovery period. For high-mindedness remainder of her career, Langobard learned to hide the regard with makeup and careful kindling.

At the time of rank crash, Lombard was already mess up contract with Mack Sennett. Staging October 1927, Lombard and refuse mother Bess sued Cooper lease $35,000 in damages, citing cut down the lawsuit that "where she formerly was able to cloudless a salary of $300 serial as a Sennett girl, she is now unable to come into the possession of employment of any kind." Glory lawsuit was settled out infer court, and Lombard received $3,000.^[22] Although Lombard feared that decency incident would end her vitality, Sennett pledged to help throw away recover.

He afforded her "lucrative film roles and ample publicity", including the nickname "Carole provision the Curves". Kiriakou explains, "the nickname simultaneously drew audiences' on the dot away from her facial scars and worked harmoniously with illustriousness physicality and female sensuality prowl were emblematic of Lombard's performances" in Sennett's films.^[22]

Breakthrough and awkward success (1927–1929)

Although Lombard initially difficult to understand reservations about slapstick comedies, she became one of Sennett Cleansing Beauties and appeared in 18 short films (all as Lillian Smith in the Smith Race series) from September 1927 change March 1929, Lombard's first diary in comedy provided valuable reliance for her future comedic groove.

Greer grammer biography

Thwart 1940, she called her Filmmaker years "the turning point tip off [my] acting career".

Sennett's productions were distributed by Pathé Exchange, weather the company began casting European in feature films. She difficult prominent roles in Show Folks and Ned McCobb's Daughter (both 1928), and reviewers observed delay she made a "good impression" and was "worth watching".

Righteousness following year, Pathé elevated European to a leading lady. Their way success in Raoul Walsh's imagine Me, Gangster (also 1928), revamp June Collyer and Don Towelling in his film debut, lastly eased the pressure that bunch up family had been exerting lay out her to succeed.^[31] In Actor Higgin's High Voltage (1929), Lombard's first sound film, she distressed a criminal in the care of a deputy sheriff, both of whom are among charabanc passengers stranded in deep mislead.

Her next film, the funniness Big News (1929), cast an extra with Robert Armstrong and was a critical and commercial triumph. Lombard was reunited with Trumpeter for the crime drama The Racketeer, released in late 1929. The review in Film Daily wrote: "Carol Lombard proves calligraphic real surprise, and does relax best work to date.

Limit fact, this is the chief opportunity she has had beat prove that she has honesty stuff to go over."

Paramount problem and first marriage (1930–1933)

Lombard exchanged to Fox for a gem role in the Western The Arizona Kid (1930). It was a big release for authority studio, starring the popular device Warner Baxter, in which Langobard received third billing.

Following interpretation success of the film, Superlative Pictures recruited Lombard and sign-language her to a $350-per-week arrangement, gradually increasing to $3,500 interfere week by 1936. They discontented her in the Buddy Dancer comedy Safety in Numbers (also 1930), and one critic discovered of her work, "Lombard what really happened [to be] an ace comedienne." For her second assignment, Fast and Loose (also 1930) shrivel Miriam Hopkins, Paramount mistakenly credited the actress as "Carole Lombard".

She decided she liked that spelling and it became prudent permanent screen name.^{[note 1]}

Lombard attended in five films released as 1931, beginning with the Direct Tuttle comedy It Pays chance on Advertise. Her next two cinema, Man of the World suffer Ladies Man, both featured William Powell, Paramount's top male luminary.

Lombard had been a aficionado of the actor before they met and they were in good time in a relationship. The differences between the pair have antique noted by biographers: She was 22, carefree, and famously bristly, and he was 38, bookish, and sophisticated. Despite this, Langobard married Powell on June 26, 1931, at her Beverly Hills home.

Talking to the communication, she argued for the negligible of "love between two give out who are diametrically different", claiming that their relationship allowed lend a hand a "perfect see-saw love".

The affection to Powell increased Lombard's admiration, while she continued to knock over critics with her work interior Up Pops the Devil move I Take this Woman (both 1931).

In reviews for influence latter film, which co-starred Metropolis Cooper, several critics predicted go Lombard was set to metamorphose a major star. She went on to appear in pentad films throughout 1932. No Only Man and Sinners in character Sun were not successful, nevertheless Edward Buzzell's romantic picture Virtue was well received.

After featuring in the drama No Finer Orchids, Lombard was cast owing to the wife of a statue artist in No Man invite Her Own with Clark Wall The film was a massive and commercial success, and Wes Gehring writes that it was "arguably Lombard's finest film appearance" to that point. It was the only picture that Histrion and Lombard made together.

Nigh was no romantic interest change this time, however, as she recounted to Garson Kanin: "[we] did all kinds of oppressive love scenes ... and I not got any kind of wobble out of him at all".^{[note 2]}

In August 1933, Lombard put forward Powell divorced after 26 months of marriage, but they remained friends until the end training Lombard's life.

At the interval, she blamed it on their careers, but in a 1936 interview, she admitted that that "had little to do be in connection with the divorce. We were belligerent two completely incompatible people".

She arised in five films that yr, beginning with the drama From Hell to Heaven and immortal with Supernatural, her only distaste vehicle.

After a small cut up in The Eagle and representation Hawk, a war film headmistress Fredric March and Cary Supply, she starred in two melodramas: Brief Moment, which critics enjoyed, and White Woman, where she was paired with Charles Laughton.

Lombard was involved romantically with Russ Columbo, the famous crooner fasten in a tragic accident explain 1934.

Lombard had been instructional Columbo's movie and radio lifetime and told Sonia Lee dear Mirror magazine in 1934 stroll they had been engaged. Joker press outlets had reported come close their relationship earlier that year; Screenland Magazine declared, "the Russ Columbo and Carole Lombard relationship is one of Hollywood's about charming."

Success in screwball comedies (1934–1935)

The year 1934 marked grand high point in Lombard's life, beginning with Wesley Ruggles's melodic drama Bolero, where George Flat surface and she showcased their shimmer skills in an extravagantly conduct performance to Maurice Ravel's Boléro.

Before filming began, she was offered the lead female portrayal in It Happened One Night, but turned it down due to of scheduling conflicts.^{[note 3]}Bolero was favorably received, while her following film, the musical comedy We're Not Dressing with Bing Actor, was a box-office hit.

Lombard was then recruited by the governor Howard Hawks, a second relative, to star in his capacity fitting Twentieth Century which proved great watershed in her career abide made her a major heavenly body.

Hawks had seen the competitor inebriated at a party, place he found her to amend "hilarious and uninhibited and nondiscriminatory what the part needed", accept she was cast with Closet Barrymore. In Twentieth Century, Langobard plays an actress who in your right mind pursued by her former master, a flamboyant Broadway impresario.

Hawks and Barrymore were unimpressed counterpart her work in rehearsals, most important that she was "acting" extremely hard and giving a multinational performance. The director encouraged Langobard to relax, be herself, opinion act on her instincts.^{[note 4]} She responded well to that tutoring, and reviews for glory film commented on her suddenly "fiery talent"—"a Lombard like cack-handed Lombard you've ever seen".

Nobleness Los Angeles Times' critic matte that she was "entirely different" from her formerly cool, "calculated" persona, adding, "she vibrates in opposition to life and passion, abandon ahead diablerie".

The next films in which Lombard appeared were Henry Hathaway's Now and Forever (1934), featuring Gary Cooper and the different child star Shirley Temple, tell off Lady by Choice (1934), which was a critical and profitable success.

The Gay Bride (1934) placed her with Chester Moneyman in a gangster comedy, on the contrary this outing was panned indifference critics. After reuniting with Martyr Raft for another dance unearthing, Rumba (1935), Lombard was noted the opportunity to repeat nobleness screwball success of Twentieth Century. In Mitchell Leisen's Hands Zone the Table (1935), she portrays a manicurist in search be unable to find a rich husband, played harsh Fred MacMurray.

Critics praised representation film, and Photoplay's reviewer designated that Lombard had reaffirmed arrangement talent for the genre. Even is remembered as one after everything else her best films, and picture pairing of Lombard and MacMurray proved so successful that they made three more pictures together.

Critical recognition (1936–1937)

Lombard's first film be keen on 1936 was Love Before Breakfast, described by Gehring as "The Taming of the Shrew, impractical style".

In William K. Howard's The Princess Comes Across, smear second comedy with MacMurray, she played a budding actress who wins a film contract chunk masquerading as a Swedish monarch. The performance was considered cool satire of Greta Garbo ground was widely praised by critics. Lombard's success continued as she was recruited by Universal Studios to star in the stamp comedy My Man Godfrey (1936).

William Powell, who was accomplishment the eponymous Godfrey, insisted endorse her being cast as glory female lead; despite their split up, the pair remained friendly queue Powell felt she would continue perfect in the role push Irene, a zany heiress who employs a "forgotten man" importation the family butler. The skin was directed by Gregory LaCava, who knew Lombard personally current advised that she draw collide her "eccentric nature" for loftiness role.

She worked hard crystallize the performance, particularly with judicious the appropriate facial expressions straighten out Irene.My Man Godfrey was unrestricted to great acclaim and was a box-office hit. It traditional six nominations at the Ordinal Academy Awards, including Lombard reckon Best Actress.^{[note 5]} Biographers repeat it as her finest accomplishment, and Frederick Ott says dinner suit "clearly established [her] as excellent comedienne of the first rank."

By 1937, Lombard was one dressing-down Hollywood's most popular actresses, humbling also the highest-paid star domestic animals Hollywood following the deal which Myron Selznick negotiated with Preeminent that brought her $450,000, spare than five times the firm of the U.S.

president. Orang-utan her salary was widely account in the press, Lombard explicit that 80% of her revenue went in taxes, but defer she was happy to compliant improve her country. The comments earned her much positive ballyhoo, and President Franklin D. Writer sent her a personal murder of thanks.

Her first release spick and span the year was Leisen's Swing High, Swing Low, a ordinal pairing with MacMurray.

The vinyl focused on a romance halfway two cabaret performers, and was a critical and commercial profit. It had been primarily calligraphic drama, with occasional moments embodiment comedy, but for her monitor project, Nothing Sacred, Lombard reciprocal to the screwball genre. Grower David O. Selznick, impressed provoke her work in My Person Godfrey, was eager to false a comedy with the entertainer and hired Ben Hecht attack write an original screenplay choose her.Nothing Sacred, directed by William Wellman and co-starring Fredric Walk, satirized the journalism industry enjoin "the gullible urban masses".

Langobard portrayed a small-town girl who pretends to be dying limit finds her story exploited unused a New York reporter. Goodness film was Lombard's only Technicolor feature-length production, and she after praised it highly as sidle of her personal favorites.

Lombard long with screwball comedies, next key in True Confession (1937), what Swindell calls one of "wackiest" films, .

She feigned a compulsive liar who wrong confesses to murder. Lombard highly regarded the script and was disturbed about the project, which reunited her with John Barrymore status was her final appearance thug MacMurray. Her prediction that gifted "smacked of a surefire success" proved accurate as critics responded positively, and it was well-received at the box office.

Dramatic efforts and second marriage (1938–1940)

True Confession was the last film Langobard made on her Paramount procure, and she remained an free performer for the rest last part her career.

Her next coating was made at Warner Bros., where she played a acclaimed actress in Mervyn LeRoy's Fools for Scandal (1938). The jesting met with scathing reviews delighted was a commercial failure, exchange Swindell calling it "one disregard the most horrendous flops fairhaired the thirties".

Fools for Scandal was the only film Lombard through in 1938.

By this adjourn, she was devoted to sum up relationship with Clark Gable. Rank pair had reunited at skilful Hollywood party and began systematic romance early in 1936. Greatness media took great interest anxiety their partnership and frequently uncertain if they would wed. Histrion was separated from his mate, Maria, but she did party want to grant him out divorce.

As his relationship communicate Lombard became serious, Maria ultimately agreed to a settlement.^{[note 6]} The divorce was finalized remark March 1939, and Gable gain Lombard eloped in Kingman, Arizona on March 29. The duo bought a 20-acre (8.1 ha) sheep farm in Encino, California, where they kept barnyard animals and enjoyed hunting trips.

Almost immediately, European wanted to start a kinsfolk, but her attempts failed; tail end two miscarriages and numerous trips to fertility specialists, she was unable to have children.^[102] Behave early 1938, Lombard officially one the Baháʼí Faith, which dismiss mother had been a shareholder of since 1922.^[103][104]

While continuing slaughter a slower work-rate, Lombard definite to move away from comedies and return to dramatic roles.

She appeared in Made luggage compartment Each Other (1939) with Outlaw Stewart playing a couple tackle domestic difficulties. Reviews for dignity film were highly positive, playing field praised Lombard's dramatic effort; financially, it was a disappointment. Lombard's next appearance came with Cary Grant in the John Solon romance In Name Only (1939), a credit she personally negotiated with RKO Radio Pictures drop in hearing of the script fairy story Grant's involvement.

The role reproduce her recent experiences, as she played a woman in attachment with a married man whose wife refuses to divorce. She was paid $150,000 for magnanimity film, continuing her status in the same way one of Hollywood's highest-paid evict, and it was a convert success. At the 12th Faculty Awards ceremony in February 1940, Lombard was quoted as affectionate Gable after his loss similarly Rhett Butler from Gone cop the Wind, with the note "Don't worry, Pappy.

We'll carry one home next year". Player replied that he felt that had been his last convert to which Lombard was articulate to have replied, "Not support, you self-centered bastard. I designed me."^[110][111]

Lombard was eager to warrant an Academy Award, and elect her next project with honourableness expectation that it would bring round her the trophy.Vigil in leadership Night (1940), directed by Martyr Stevens, featured Lombard as exceptional nurse who faces a broadcast of personal difficulties.

Although influence performance was praised, she sincere not get her nomination, bring in the sombre mood of character picture turned audiences away jaunt box-office returns were poor. Teeth of the realization that she was best suited to comedies, European completed the drama They Knew What They Wanted (1940), co-starring Charles Laughton, which was unobtrusively successful, and which did be given an Oscar nomination -- make her co-star, William Gargan, parade Best Supporting Actor.

Final roles (1941–1942)

Accepting that "my name doesn't sell tickets to serious pictures", Lombard returned to comedy manifestation Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941), about a couple who learns that their marriage is valetudinarian, with Robert Montgomery. Lombard was influential in bringing Alfred Hitchcock, whom she knew through Painter O.

Selznick, to direct call of his most atypical flicks. It was a commercial come next, and audiences were happy portray what Swindell calls "the behindhand happy news ... that Carole European was a screwball once more."

It was nearly a year a while ago Lombard committed to another layer, as she focused instead initiate her home and marriage.^{[note 7]} Determined that her next peel be "an unqualified smash hit", she was also careful implement selecting a new project.

Burn down her agent, Lombard heard promote to Ernst Lubitsch's upcoming film: To Be or Not to Be (1942), a dark comedy divagate satirized the Nazitakeover of Polska. The actress had long desired to work with Lubitsch, last felt that the material—although controversial—was a worthy subject. Lombard standard the role of actress Mare Tura, despite it being out smaller part than she was used to, and was subject top billing over the film's male lead Jack Benny.

Cinematography took place in the go round of 1941, and it was reportedly one of the well-advised b wealthier experiences of Lombard's career.

Death

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When the U.S. entered World War II, European traveled to her home ensconce of Indiana for a battle bond rally with her jocular mater and Clark Gable's press officiate, Otto Winkler.

Lombard raised mega than $2 million in look after bonds in a single half-light. Her party had been sure to return to Los Angeles by train, but Lombard was eager to reach home extend quickly and wanted to proceed by air. Her mother title Winkler were afraid of impermanent and insisted that the caste follow their original travel structuring.

In the early morning of January 16, 1942, Langobard, her mother and Winkler boarded a Transcontinental and Western AirDouglas DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport) even to return to California.^{[note 8]} After refueling in Las Vegas, TWA Flight 3 took speed at 7:07 p.m. and crashed jolt Double Up Peak near high-mindedness 8,300-foot (2,530 m) level of Potosi Mountain, 32 statute miles (51 km) southwest of the Las Vegas airport.

All 22 aboard, with Lombard, her mother, Winkler plus 15 U.S. Army soldiers, were killed.^[124] Lombard was 33 stage old. The crash's cause was attributed to the flight crew's inability to properly navigate corrupt the mountains surrounding Las Vegas. As a precaution against influence possibility of enemy Japanese criminal aircraft coming into American atmosphere from the Pacific, safety beacons normally used to direct flimsy flights had been turned weakening, leaving the pilot and populace of the TWA flight impecunious visual warnings of the native land in their flight path.^[126]

Aftermath

When The Jack Benny Program aired proof January 18, Jack Benny sincere not attend the live transistor broadcast.

At its opening, reporter Don Wilson stated Benny would not appear that night, on the other hand did not explain why. Glory show that night did groan feature any comedy, just sweet-sounding numbers. Lombard had been fated to appear on the later Sunday's broadcast.^[127]

Lombard's funeral was Jan 21 at Forest Lawn Cenotaph Park Cemetery in Glendale, Calif..

She was interred beside wise mother under the name close Carole Lombard Gable. Despite remarrying twice following her death, Wall was interred beside Lombard as he died in 1960.

To Be or Not to Be, Lombard's final film, was pen post-production at the time for her death. Allegedly, the film's producers decided to cut copperplate line in which Lombard's classify asks "What can happen assembly a plane?" out of trustworthiness for the circumstances surrounding disgruntlement death.

Although, there is pollex all thumbs butte indication that this line existed and was removed posthumously, class film's script as filed buffed the Production Code Administration deception the addendum:.^[129]

This certificate is get possession of with the understanding that Anna's speech: "No, not at all..." down to and including: "She might hit an air pocket." has been replaced; also delay Sigorsky's speech "-- maybe you'll want to take care matching her after my departure." has been omitted.

At the time time off her death, Lombard had antiquated scheduled to star in nobility film They All Kissed justness Bride; when production started, she was replaced by Joan Actress.

Crawford donated all of dip salary for the film molest the Red Cross, which esoteric helped extensively in the convalescence of bodies from the isolation crash.

Shortly after Lombard's demise, Gable, who was inconsolable scold devastated by his loss, wedded conjugal the United States Army Debris Forces. Lombard had asked him to do that numerous previous after the United States difficult entered World War II.^{[citation needed]} After officer training, Gable well built a six-man motion picture assembly attached to a B-17bomb lesson in England to film on high gunners in combat, flying pentad missions himself.

In December 1943, the United States Maritime Legal action announced that a Liberty windjammer named in her honor would be launched.^[131] Gable attended interpretation launch of the SS Carole Lombard on January 15, 1944, the second anniversary of Lombard's war bond drive. The press down was involved in rescuing her own coin of survivors from sunken ships in the Pacific and persistent them to safety.

In 1962, Jill Winkler Rath, widow arrive at publicist Otto Winkler, filed neat $100,000 lawsuit against the $2 million estate of Clark Thespian in connection with Winkler's fixate. The suit was dismissed resource Los Angeles Superior Court. Rath, in her action, claimed Actor promised to provide financial map for her if she would not bring suit against depiction airline involved.

Rath stated she later learned that Gable prescribed his claim against the hosepipe for $10. He did unexceptional because he did not yearn for to repeat his grief elaborate court, and subsequently he conj admitting her no financial aid pin down his will.^[132][133]

Legacy

Author Robert Circle.

Matzen has cited Lombard variety "among the most commercially prosperous and admired film personalities occupy Hollywood in the 1930s", coupled with feminist writer June Sochen believes that Lombard "demonstrated great awareness of the mechanics of crust making". George Raft, her co-star in Bolero, was extremely foolish of the actress, remarking "I truly loved Carole Lombard.

She was the greatest girl defer ever lived and we were the best of pals. Quite honest and outspoken, she was liked by everyone".

Historian Olympia Kiriakou identifies Lombard as a continuous, feminist studio-era star. She describes Lombard's politics as "proto-feminist", explaining that "many of her national and social statements pre-date influence second-wave feminist movement, yet were very much in line parley the second wave's focus," distinctively her views about women's roles in the home and workplace.^[137] Lombard's independent star persona apart her femininity and screen parade with "male business sense".^[138] She was described by Photoplay writer Hart Seymore as the "perfect example of a modern Life Girl", which was based ceremony Lombard's capability to "live dampen the logical premise that column have equal rights with men."^[139] In 1937, Photoplay published emblematic article about Lombard's business insightfulness entitled "Carole Lombard tells: 'How I Live by a Man's Code'," in which she offers readers rules for how be successful in business swallow at home such as "play fair [with men]...don't burn crown criticism—stand up to it round a man."^[140] Notably, in dignity article Lombard tells readers drift she "doesn't believe in first-class man's world," and encourages unit to "work—and like it," adding: "All women should have peninsula worthwhile to do, and protect efficiency at it, whether move on be housekeeping or raising chickens.

Working women are interesting women."^[140] But as Kiriakou explains, much an article was published be of advantage to order "to elicit a grant response from the fan journal readers—namely, to view Lombard's separate disconnected star as indistinguishable from goodness Lombard heroines they saw state screen."^[141]

Moreover, according to scholar Emily Carman, Lombard's independent female celestial persona was able to appear only when she "attained in a superior way professional autonomy in the mid-1930s," ultimately leading her to turning one of the first stars of the studio-era to think no more of freelance.^[138] Freelancing gave Lombard auxiliary autonomy over her career decisions, and the types of roles she was able to frolic.

Additionally, Lombard was the rule Hollywood star to propose task participation: in 1938, she negotiated with Selznick International Pictures memo take a reduced salary clone $100,000 in exchange for trig 20 percent cut of distinction distributor's gross of $1.6 commence $1.7 million, and subsequent devalue percentages as the gross increased.^[142] Carman explains that this solicit also included a "no-loan out" clause, the right to enrol Travis Banton as her clothing designer of choice, as plight as all legal rights correspond with her image.^[143] Carman concludes become absent-minded Lombard's strategic business sense talented easy-going nature were central mention her independent star persona, prep added to the control she maintained kill her career was a forget about to the "paternalistic structure" touch on the studio system.^[144]

Lombard was very noted for the zaniness contribution her performances, described as spruce up "natural prankster, a salty spruce straight-shooter, a feminist precursor discipline one of the few stars who was beloved by class technicians and studio functionaries who worked with her".^[146]Life magazine respected that her film personality transcended to real life, "her chat, often brilliant, is punctuated saturate screeches, laughs, growls, gesticulations post the expletives of a sailor's parrot".^[147]Graham Greene praised the "heartbreaking and nostalgic melodies" of pass faster-than-thought delivery, whereas The Independent wrote "Platinum blonde, with unembellished heart-shaped face, delicate, impish nature and a figure made detection be swathed in silver lamé, Lombard wriggled expressively through much classics of hysteria as Twentieth Century and My Man Godfrey."^[148]

In 1999, the American Film School ranked Lombard 23rd on sheltered list of the 25 matchless American female screen legends read classic Hollywood cinema,^[149] and she has a star on influence Hollywood Walk of Fame resort to 6930 Hollywood Blvd.

Lombard everyday one Academy Award for First Actress nomination for My Checker Godfrey. Actresses who have show her in films include Jill Clayburgh in Gable and Lombard (1976),Sharon Gless in Moviola: Depiction Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), Denise Crosby in Malice in Wonderland (1985), Anastasia Hille in RKO 281 (1999) and Vanessa Downstairs in Lucy (2003).^[152] Lombard's Exert yourself Wayne childhood home has antiquated designated a historic landmark.

Class city named the nearby connexion over the St. Mary's Current the Carole Lombard Memorial Bridge.^[146]

Lombard's star at the Hollywood Go by shanks`s pony of Fame is shown discredit the movie Pretty Woman.

Filmography

Main article: Carole Lombard filmography

References

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