Carole Lombard

She is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Although Gable remarried, he was buried next to her. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. Its producers decided to cut part of the film in which her character asks, "What can happen in a plane?". Anita Louise died from a stroke in Los Angeles, California and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Her final film, To Be or Not to Be, was in post-production at the time of her death. Her husband of twenty years, the film producer Buddy Adler died in 1960. The Liberty ship SS Lombard was named for her, and Gable attended its launching on January 15, 1944. She virtually retired after this.

Roosevelt, who admired her patriotism, declared her the first woman killed in the line of duty during the war and posthumously awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In middle age she played one of her most widely seen roles as the mother in the television series My Friend Flicka from 1956 until 1958. Just before boarding the plane in Indiana, she addressed her fans, saying "Before I say goodbye to you all, come on and join me in a big cheer! V for Victory!" President Franklin D. By the 1940s she was reduced to minor roles and appeared very infrequently before the advent of television in the 1950s provided her with further opportunities. Carole Lombard was killed in a airplane crash in Nevada when returning from a war bond tour in 1942. Among her film successes were Madame Du Barry (1934), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Marie Antoinette (1936), The Sisters (1938), and The Little Princess (1939). She married Clark Gable in 1939. Her reputation was further enhanced by her role as Hollywood society hostess, with her parties attended by the elite of Hollywood, and widely and regularly reported in the news media.

She married actor William Powell in 1931; they divorced two years later. As her stature in Hollywood grew, she was named as a WAMPAS Baby Star, and was frequently described as one of cinema's most fashionable and stylish women. It was a comedy, My Man Godfrey (1936) for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. By her late teens she was being cast in leading and supporting roles in major productions, and was highly regarded for her delicate features and blonde hair. Carole Lombard became one of Hollywood's top comedy actresses in the 1930s. Born Anita Louise Fremault in New York, New York, she made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of six, and within a year was appearing regularly in Hollywood films. In 1930 she began working as for Paramount Pictures. Anita Louise (January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American film actress.

She became a well known actress and managed to make a smooth transition to sound films, starting with High Voltage (1929). She also worked for Mack Sennett and Pathé Pictures. In 1925 she was signed as a contract player with 20th Century Fox. In some of her early movies she was credited as Jane Peters, and then as Carol Lombard.

In the 1920s she worked in several low-budget productions. She made her film debut at the age of 12 in A Perfect Crime (1921) (There has been some speculation that she was actually a few years older than her given birthdate). She was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 - January 16, 1942) was an American actress.