Carole Lombard

Those who bemoan the public's sometimes low opinion of journalists should watch "Nothing Sacred," a 1937 comedy showing that scorn for the press is hardly new. Restored in its original Technicolor on a Kino DVD, the film is one of Hollywood's funniest putdowns of the Fourth Estate.  

Kevin Roderick: Good on Cheryll Devall of KPCC for working up a radio piece on today's 70th anniversary of the day that Hollywood comic actress Carole Lombard died in a plane crash. Famously married to Clark Gable, Lombard was honored by FDR as the first American woman to die in the line of duty during World War II.  

89.3 KPCCAirline crash that took actress Carole Lombard's life happened 70 years ago89.3 KPCC18, 1933, file photo, Carole Lombard, well known screen actress shown on the courthouse steps at Carson City, Nev., following her divorce from her husband, William Powell. On this day 70 years ago, the United States had barely entered World War II. ...  

The worst biopics everMiamiHerald.com"Gable and Lombard" - Decades before Angelina and Brad, and years before Liz and Dick, there were Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. There has never been a more glamorous Hollywood couple, and the actress' tragic death in an air crash immortalized the ...and more »  

Cape May County Herald (press release)East Lynne Theater Company's 2012 SeasonCape May County Herald (press release)Written by Roi Cooper Mergue and Walter C. Hackett, it was a Broadway hit in 1914, and made into a film with Carole Lombard. The premise – and promise – that anything can be sold in America is at its core, but it also examines the very nature and ...  

WGMEToday in HistoryABC NewsIn 1942, actress Carole Lombard, 33, her mother Elizabeth and 20 other people were killed when their plane crashed near Las Vegas, Nev., while en route to California from a war-bond promotion tour. In 1944, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the ...Years AgoYoungstown Vindicatorall 47 news articles »  

Sunday, Jan. 15Advocate WeeklyTemple Anshe Amunim, "Sunday at the Movies" series features screening of "To Be or Not to Be," a 1942 film starring Jack Benny, Carole Lombard and Robert Stack, about the efforts of a Polish theater troupe to foil a Nazi spy and help the Resistance ...  

Alt Film Guide (blog)Jerry Lewis, Christopher Hitchens: Unfunny Women, Reactionary MenAlt Film Guide (blog)This from the guy who grew up at a time when Carole Lombard, Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Arthur, Claudette Colbert, Myrna Loy, Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Patsy Kelly, Glenda Farrell, and others were lighting up the screen in dozens of film ...and more »  

BC-US--Delta Flight-Unruly Passenger, 1st Ld-Writethru,130WGMEIn 1942, actress Carole Lombard, 33, her mother Elizabeth and 20 other people were killed when their plane crashed near Las Vegas, Nev., while en route to California from a war-bond promotion tour. In 1944, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the ...and more »