I'm Steffi, 20 years old, from Germany, living in NYC as an au pair, currently obsessing over Sutton Foster + Anything Goes. Judy Garland and Rita Hayworth are my queens. I love a lot of other people too, so be prepared :).
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Carole Lombard on the cover of Photoplay (1938)
Carole Lombard.
Carole and a cow. Wish I were that cow tbh.
Carole Lombard photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1934.
It has been written since then that Carole and I had that wedding day planned out for months in advance, but that’s not true. It happened this way. On the afternoon of March 28, I was finished with my scenes (in Gone with the Wind) about three in the afternoon. While I was taking off my make-up, the assistant director came over and said I didn’t need to work the next day. I called Carole at once and with the aid of a close friend, we headed out that night to Kingman, Arizona. We took Otto along, not only to untangle any difficulties we might get into, but because he had a new car without license plates which meant we wouldn’t be spotted.
We were married at three-thirty that afternoon and left at five-thirty, getting home the next morning at three. Carole’s mother was there, all excited, which kept us up till five. Finally we got to sleep, only to be awakened at nine to discover forty cameramen, three newsreel men and twenty reporters waiting out in the front yard to interview us. Under the circumstances, David gave me another day off.
Favorite Humans in no particular order
⇨ Carole Lombard born Jane Alice Peters
(October 6, 1908 - January 16, 1942)
Before I say goodbye to you all, come on - join me in a big cheer - ‘V for Victory!’
Carole Lombard, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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Hazel Fucking Flagg
Nothing Sacred (1937)
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Carole Lombard photographed by George Hurrell, 1937.
This was Clark Gable’s favorite picture of Carole.
Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, and director Mitchell Leisen on the set of Swing High, Swing Low, 1937
On this day 70 years ago, Carole Lombard, who was at the time married to actor Clark Gable died suddenly on her way back from a war bond drive in Indiana when the plane she was riding on with her mother Bess and Clark’s press agent Otto Winkler crashed just outside Las Vegas. All passengers on board died. Lombard was just 33 years old.
“Carole had a quality which is rare. You can count the women who have had it on the fingers of one hand. Carole, while doing the wild antics of a clown….could make you laugh, and yet at the same time make you want to go to bed with her.” —Desi Arnaz
