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Carole Lombard: Las Vegas
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One would hope that the lesson of casting Lombard in a blackmail scenario might have been learned in the prior failed excursion. But then there comes True Confessions (1937) the last film featured in this collection; a discombobulated madcap comedy/adventure yarn regarding kooky married couple, Helen (Lombard) and Ken Bartlett (Fred MacMurray). She's a pathological liar; he, her scrupulous alter ego. Ken's failed attempt at the law is offset by Helen starting a new job -- that is, until her employer is found dead. Put on trial for murder, Helen contemplates life in prison while Ken mounts her defense. Successfully acquitting his wife, all is not serene when a disreputable court room straggler Charley (John Barrymore) attempts to blackmail Helen by claiming to have evidence that could convict her of a crime she clearly did not commit.
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When at the end of 1941 the US entered World War II, Lombard traveled to her home state of Indiana for a war bond rally. At four o'clock in the morning of Friday, January 16, 1942, Lombard and her mother boarded a plane to return to California. After refueling in Las Vegas, the plane took off on a clear night, and twenty-three minutes later crashed into Mount Potosi, 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas. All of the 22 passengers aboard were killed. Just before boarding the plane in Indiana, Carole had addressed her fans, saying, "Before I say goodbye to you all, come on and join me in a big cheer! V for Victory!"
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In Hands Across the Table (1935), Lombard is cast as Reggie Allen, a beautiful manicurist/gold digger. One of her regular clients is the sympathetic paraplegic ex-aviator Allen Macklyn (Ralph Bellamy, who made a career out of playing good guys who always finish last). Macklyn is quite wealthy. He ... has a yen for Reggie, only she's not exactly up to playing Mother Theresa in trade for the wealth he could provide. Enter Theodore Drew III (Fred MacMurray) a free and easy playboy more attune to Reggie's own desires -- only his family fortune has been lost in the stock market crash. To keep things status quo, Ted contemplates marriage to Vivien Snowden (Astrid Allwyn) the rather uppity daughter of a pineapple baron.
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When the US entered World War II at the end of 1941, Lombard traveled to her home state of Indiana for a war bond rally. At four o'clock (04:00 local time) on the morning of Friday, January 16, 1942, Lombard and her mother boarded a Trans World Airlines DC-3 airplane to return to California. After refueling in Las Vegas, Flight 3 took off on a clear night. However, beacons in the area had been blacked out because of the war, and the plane was 6.7 miles (10.8 km) off course. Twenty-three minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed into "Double Up Peak" near the 8,300-foot (2500 meter) level of Mount Potosi, 32 miles (52 km) southwest of Las Vegas. All 22 passengers were killed.
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At four AM, Friday, January 16, 1942, Lombard and her mother boarded the plane home to California. After refueling in Las Vegas, the plane took off on a clear night, and twenty three minutes later crashed into a mountain side thirty miles southwest of Las Vegas. All of the 23 passengers aboard were killed.
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Carole went home to Indiana for a War Bond rally. On the return flight, January 16, 1942, Carole, her mother, and twenty other people perished when their plane went down outside of Las Vegas.
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