Gossip Friday: Too High a Price
From January 1942:
They speculate about Carole Lombard, in search of a picture. Vivid, dynamic Carole who was so sure what she wanted was what the public wanted too, and who then had the misfortune…or miscalculation…to get three flops in a row. Today her health is poor; she looks constantly tired and over-strained, yet you see her frantically reading books, plays, original scripts and Hollywood wonders and wonders…she should be so happy, but the price on some careers runs very high. Carole is too exciting, too stimulating for Hollywood to want her to pay too high a price.
4 Comments
Dan
Irony at its most cruel as we know she didn’t need to worry about her career (or personal life) in the end- she paid the highest price of all 🙁
David
Dan, you are spot on. Great comment.
Di
Carol Lombard was the best! Sweet, wonderful, beautiful, and hilarious! Carol Lombard and her mother died simply because a pilot wanted to take a short cut to California that he was not familiar with! And he slammed into a hill or mountain, killing everyone on his plane!
It’s a shame that Carol chose to travel by plane rather than train. But she missed her husband Clark Gable and rushed home to see him! She was away from her home with Clark Gable
due to wanting to help the war effort at that time (WW2) in helping to sell war bonds.
Carol Lombard died serving her country.
Diane
I left a comment, where is it?