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Article: Clark Gable's "Hoosier Tornado".(REEL WORLD)(Carole Lombard)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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IN READING ABOUT SCREWBALL comedy actress Carole Lombard of "My Man Godfrey" (1936) and "Nothing Sacred" (1937) fame, it is easy to be drawn to her comic courtship of 1930s box office king Clark Gable. Though they had co-starred together in "No Man of Her Own" (1932), it was not until a zany Valentine's Day girl in 1936 that the sparks really began to ignite.
Lombard had a dilapidated Model-T Ford covered with painted hearts delivered to Gable. The gag worked on several levels. First, thanks in no small part to the antiheroic films of Laurel and Hardy and W.C. Fields, the Model-T was America's favorite joke of a car. Second, Lombard compounded the comedy by ...
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Article: Lombard's legacy something sacred.(NW Arts&Life)
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July 5, 2009 ;
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... ... train trip, as Lombard was eager to get ... husband, Clark Gable. She was 33. Now ... Man Godfrey." Lombard married Gable in 1939. They famously ... iconic performances (Lombard slowed her moviemaking ... pace after marrying Gable), she was nonetheless ...
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