Goodbye, Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard died 76 years ago today, at the age of 33. Her brief time on earth ending after crashing into a snowy mountaintop near Las Vegas, she left behind a world of grieving fans and one distraught husband.
Celebrate, rather than mourn, Carole today. She would not be one to wallow, after all!
Some great Carole content around here:
Last year I chronicled the newspaper headlines around the time of her death, starting with January 16, through January 23:
75th Anniversary of Carole Lombard’s Death
Here’s a piece regarding Carole and those persisting baby rumors:
Carole Lombard, Clark Gable and The Baby That Never Was
Some rare Carole photos I came across in vintage scrapbooks:
A psychic in 1936 predicted Clark and Carole’s future. How right was she?
1936: A Hollywood Psychic Predicts Clark Gable and Carole Lombard’s Future
My top 5 Carole Lombard Films:
The story of how Clark once gifted Carole a wildcat:
Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and One Wild Cat
Carole jokes around on the set of “They Knew What They Wanted” with pictures to prove it:
Carole Lombard Behaving Like a Mugg!
There’s also plenty of articles in the Article Archive:
Can the Gable-Lombard Love Story Have a Happy Ending?
What’s Become of the Good Scout?
What the Loss of Carole Lombard Means to Clark Gable
and many others.
Celebrate Carole Lombard Gable today, and long may she rest in peace next to her beloved Clarkie.
One Comment
Morris Galloway
Of course they crashed! What is often forgotten is that the aircraft was flying at 8,000 feet, while trying to cross over an 8,500 foot high mountain. The left wing of the Douglas DC-3 clipped a limestone outcrop. The cartwheeling aircraft made a tremendous fireball seen in town a short distance away. That fireball sent rescuers up the mountain, on foot and horseback even though the crash occurred at night. The pilot plotted a 218 degree compass heading right into Potosi Mountain. And the Potosi Mountain Top Beacon was shut off because of fears of Japanese warplanes might be poised to attack the California Coast and inland cities. And the aircraft had a radio compass that would have given them an ‘airway’ to fly ‘on the beam’ that would have vectored them around the mountain, but they did not use it, or it was on the fritz. It was a tragedy all around.