Do you ever watch old movies? Maybe you will see one with Carole Lombard. She was a famous (well-known) movie actress in the 1930s. She died when she was only 34. In her short life the made 70 movies!
Lombard’s real name was Jane Alice Peters. In 1921, she was playing baseball in the street near her home. A movie director saw her and decided to put her in a movie. She was only 13 at the time. The movie was one of the last silent movies. At 16, she left school to act.
She got a contract, a legal agreement, in 1925 with a film studio, 20th Century Fox. The studio gave her a new name, and she starred in several films. Then, at age 18, she was in a bad car accident —a sudden event. The accident left scars on her face. The studio ended her contract, but she did not give up. She wore a lot of make-up. She kept on acting.
It was Paramount Studio that made Lombard a star. She made many movies for the studio. She also married two of their stars. Lombard was married to actor William Powell for only 23 months. But seven years later, she married the great love of her life, actor Clark Gable. Gable played Rhett Butler in the movie Gone with the Wind.
Lombard was killed in a plane crash in 1942. Gable married again. But when he died, he was buried next to Lombard. It was a great Hollywood love story.