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2 unusual facts about Carole Lombard


Fernand Gravey

The first two films he made in Hollywood were for Warner Brothers: The King and the Chorus Girl (1937), opposite Joan Blondell and Jane Wyman, and Fools for Scandal (1938), opposite Carole Lombard and Ralph Bellamy.

Jane Peters

:For the actress whose birth-name was Jane Peters see Carole Lombard


Goodsprings, Nevada

In addition, the Pioneer Saloon has a small memorial to both Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

Napa Valley AVA

The winery also invited Hollywood stars including Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Carole Lombard to visit.

Silsby Spalding

In 1912, after Canfield's death, they moved into Grayhall, an estate located at 1100 Carolyn Way, formerly built by Carole Lombard's father as a hunting lodge and later owned by George Hamilton and Bernard Cornfeld.

The Gay Bride

Gold-digging chorus girl Mary (Carole Lombard) marries the head of a bootlegging syndicate, gangster "Shoots" Magiz (Nat Pendleton), but the illegal liquor business goes down the drain when Prohibition is repealed, and Shoots is knocked off by rival Daniel Dingle (Sam Hardy).

We're Not Dressing

Based on the 1902 J. M. Barrie play The Admirable Crichton, the film is about a beautiful yacht owner (Carole Lombard) who becomes stranded on an island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband-and-wife research team (George Burns and Gracie Allen), and a singing sailor (Bing Crosby).


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