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April 22, 2024

Carole Lombard’s Final Photo Session, 1942

For years, many of us believed Carole Lombard’s last photo session took place New Year’s Eve, 1941, under the direction of photographer Robert Coburn for To Be or Not to Be. It turns Coburn was involved in Carole’s final session, but it occurred in 1942, and To Be or Not to Be had nothing to do with it.

Rather, it was for what was planned to be her next film, Columbia’s He Kissed the Bride (later changed to They All Kissed the Bride), Coburn, Columbia’s primary photographer, ran the shoot, and it took place on Jan. 9, 1942, one week before Lombard’s passing.

Brian Lee Anderson, who’s been researching the final few months of Lombard’s life, discovered the date of the session, and that these pics were part of it:







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