Born 1908 as Jane Alice Peters into a wealthy family, American actress Carole Lombard made her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921) at the age of 12 and the experience spurred her and her mother to seek further film work, eventually resulting in a movie career.
Lombard was killed in a plane crash aboard TWA Flight 3 while returning from a war bond tour in the early morning hours of January 16, 1942. She was 33 years old. Today, she is remembered as one of the definitive actresses of the screwball comedy genre and American comedy and as an icon of American cinema.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema. These glamorous photos were taken by Eugene Robert Richee that show portraits of Carole Lombard in the 1930s.
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