Carole Lombard (1908-1942) is the continuing and concluding honoree of a 23-film retrospective of her luminous career in talking pictures, of which she appeared in no fewer than 42 in her tragically abbreviated career, cut short by a fatal plane accident on her way back from a war-bond ceremony in Indiana. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation in mourning ...

Carole Lombard (1908-1942) made her debut as an actress at the age of 12 in Allan Dwan’s A Perfect Crime, in 1921. After finishing junior high school in 1925, she reentered films, but remained an obscure blond bombshell type until she got her big break in 1934, opposite John Barrymore in Howard Hawks’ Twentieth Century, which—along with Gregory ...