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Carole Lombard
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Carole Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. Her parents divorced in 1916 and her mother took the family on a trip out West. While there they decided to settle down in the Los Angeles area. After being spotted playing baseball in the street with the neighborhood boys by a film director, Carole was signed to a one-picture contract in 1921 when she was 12. The film in question was A Perfect Crime (1921). Although she tried for other acting jobs, she would not be seen onscreen again for four years.
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Carole Lombard was born Alice Jane Peters on October 6, 1908, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The daughter of Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Knight and Frederick C. Peters, she was always different than the other girls. While others her age were playing dress up, the future star preferred to rough it with her two older brothers on the football field. Her love of performing seems to have been there from the start. She relished the Friday night movies, and would regularly perform key scenes for her parents on Saturday mornings. When Carole was eight her parents divorced and her mother relocated with the kids to California.
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A slow moving thriller: Carole Lombard plays an out of work actress from Brooklyn, New York, impersonating a Princess of Sweden (Princess Olga) in this Lombard classic. She sails to Hollywood from Sweden with her companion Lady Gertrude Allwyn (Alison Skipworth), to act in a movie on million dollar deal; but things doesn't work in favor of Olga. The fellow travelers include King Mantel (Fred McMurray), a concertina player, his manager Benton (William Frawley), a group of detectives from the European community hunting for a French fugitive on board, and the captain who is extremely cordial to the "Princess." Also on board is Robert Darcy (Porter Hall), a small time con man who is looking for a payoff by exposing the dirty secrets of Mantel and Olga. The charming manners of Mantel and the beauty of Olga obviously attract each other, and circumstances join them to protect each other's interest. It soon gets creepy as Darcy's dead body is found at Olga's bedroom, and the detectives on the ship get involved to solve the murder, and that leads to a second homicide.
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When Carole Lombard died at the age of 34 in a plane crash following a World War II war bond drive, the American film industry lost one of its most talented and intelligent actresses. Starting out in silent films as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty, she later epitomized screwball comedy in Twentieth Century (1934); My Man Godfrey (1936), for which she was Oscar nominated as Irene Bullock, with ex-husband William Powell as Godfrey; and Nothing Sacred (1937), playing the not-so-doomed Hazel Flagg. But Lombard was ... a capable dramatic actress whose talents can be seen in her subdued performance as a nurse in one of her final roles, in Vigil in the Night (1940), as well as in The Eagle and the Hawk (1933), In Name Only (1939) and They Knew What They Wanted (1940). Other fine appearances include teaming with Fred MacMurray in several films, the best of which are Hands Across the Table (1935) and The Princess Comes Across (1936), in which Lombard does a humorously accurate Greta Garbo takeoff. Her two final films contain two of her best performances: Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1940) and the Ernst Lubitsch war satire, To Be or Not To Be (1942). She was married to William Powell from 1931-33 and to Clark Gable from 1939 til her death.
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Jane Alice Peters, later known as actress Carole Lombard was born in this house at the foot of Rockhill Street on October 6th, 1908. She lived here for the first six years of her childhood, then moved to California with her mother and brothers, Frederic Jr. and Stuart. The house is a historic site as well as a bed and breakfast.
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Carole Lombard was the undisputed queen of early cinema, and this bed and breakfast – the home where she spent the first six years of her life – pays homage to the screen siren. This 1895 Victorian home has been painstakingly decorated in the style of Lombard's heyday, the 1930s and '40s. Each room depicts different eras of the star's life. Hearty breakfasts are served in the sunroom, and plenty of books and videos from the period are available. Tour the grounds and see the lovely perennial gardens overlooking St. Mary's River or borrow a bicycle to see the city.
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