Carole Lombard
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Carole Lombard was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the gr
Lombard in 1940
Lombard, aged 12, with Monte Blue in her film debut, A Perfect Crime (1921)
Lombard in a publicity still from 1927, during her time as a "Mack Sennett girl"
Lombard in a picture taken by William E. Thomas, 1929
Clark Gable
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William Clark Gable was an American actor often referred to as the "King of Hollywood". He appeared in more than 60 motion pictures across a variety of genres during a 37-year career, three decades of
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…which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and co-starring with Powell; and Nothing Sacred (1937). At this time, Lombard married Clark Gable, and the supercouple gained much attention from the media. Keen to win an Oscar, Lombard began to move toward serious roles at the end of the decade…
Gable in 1949
Gable's 1901 birthplace in Cadiz, Ohio
In 1928's Machinal with Zita Johann, Gable was lauded as "young, vigorous, and brutally masculine" by one critic.
Jean Harlow and Gable in The Secret Six (1931)