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Gable's marriage to Carole Lombard was reportedly the happiest period of his personal life. Then, on January 16, 1942, the idyll ended. Lombard was on a tour to sell war bonds when the twin-engine DC-3 she was travelling-in crashed into a mountain near Las Vegas. Upon hearing the news, Gable flew to the scene and had to be forcibly restrained from climbing the snowcapped mountain himself in an effort to rescue her. From "Biography: Clark Gable."
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In January, 1942, Carole Lombard sold over two-million dollars worth of war bonds in her home state of Indiana. Carole, anxious to return home to husband Clark Gable, wanted to take a plane instead of a train. Carole's mother and MGM publicity man Otto Winkler who accompanied her on their tour, were both afraid of flying. They begged her to take the train. Being the fair person she was, Carole said they would flip a coin, heads the train, tails the plane. The fatal coin came up tails.
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The celebrated marriage between popular film stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard came to a tragic end when she died in a plane crash enroute home from a war bond tour in January 1942. With her died her mother, MGM publicist Otto Winkler, 15 servicemen and three crew members. Five years earlier, horrified by the media circus that surrounded the untimely death and funeral of fellow movie star and friend Jean Harlow, Carole told Clark that when it was her time to go she wanted a simple, private burial. Despite the shock and worldwide press attention given to her equally untimely death, a grief-paralyzed Gable managed to fulfilled her wishes.
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Clark Gable and Carole Lombard marry on this day in 1939 as Gable is filming Gone with the Wind. The marriage was considered one of Hollywood's happiest but ended in tragedy when Lombard was killed in a plane crash in 1942, en route from a War Bond drive. Gable joined the air force shortly after her death, rose to the rank of major, and won several medals.
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Lombard had known Clark Gable since 1932, but their romantic attachment began in 1936, when John Hay Whitney gave an elaborate costume party in Hollywood. The invitations requested the guests appear in something white. With her unfailing sense of humor, Carole arrived at the party in a white ambulance and was carried into the Whitney mansion on a stretcher. She and Gable renewed their friendship at "The White Ball," becoming constant companions until their marriage in 1939.
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Carole Lombard married the most eligible bachelor in the world and became the most envied woman in the world. Clark Gable knew a good thing when he saw it. Feast your eyes on this good thing. A memorable ruby ring.
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