Gossip Friday: Ailing Carole

From July 1939:

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable really must have found the privacy they wanted on the ranch. She’s been ill for a week with an appendix attack and Hollywood did not find it out until the other day. There’ll be no operation for the present, Carole says, but the doctor will have to okay any vacation plans. Carole finished “Memory of Love” two weeks ago at RKO. Clark winds up in “GWTW” any minute.

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“Memory of Love” was re-titled as “In Name Only” and co-starred Cary Grant. It is widely speculated that Carole in fact had suffered a miscarriage at this time, not appendicitis.