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Carole Lombard

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Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters 1908-1942) was an American film actress. She was particularly noted for her zany, energetic roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. Lombard began appearing in comedies with William Powell such as Man of the World and Ladies Man, and married him in June 1931. The marriage to Powell increased Lombard's fame, and the two would continue to occasionally star together throughout the 1930s, despite being divorced in 1933. Lombard starred alongside Clark Gable (whom she married in 1939) in No Man of Her Own (1932) and George Raft in Bolero (1934), where her dance skills were praised. She also starred in Twentieth Century (1934), Hands Across the Table (1935), which was the first of four comedies made with Fred MacMurray, My Man Godfrey (1936), which won her an Academy Award nomination opposite Powell, and Nothing Sacred (1937). Lombard's career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 in an aircraft crash on Mount Potosi, Nevada while r...

Jean Harlow

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Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter 1911-1937) was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. After being signed by director Howard Hughes, Harlow's first major appearance was in Hell's Angels (1930), followed by a series of critically unsuccessful films, before signing with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1932. Harlow became a leading lady for MGM, starring in a string of hit films including Red Dust (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Reckless (1935) and Suzy (1936). Among her frequent co-stars were William Powell, Spencer Tracy and, in six films, Clark Gable. Harlow's popularity rivaled and soon surpassed that of her MGM colleagues Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer. She had become one of the biggest movie stars in the world by the late 1930s, often nicknamed the "Blond Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde", and popular for her "Laughing Vamp" movie persona. Tragically Jean Harlow died of renal failure during the filming of Saratoga in 193...