Crocodile Tears: Carole Lombard's Doomed Heroine in Nothing Sacred

SteynonLine ^ | May 18, 2024 | Rick McGinnis

[escapefromboston]

Does any actress have a better track record than Carole Lombard ? All the movies I have seen with her are classic.

[mel]

Oh the one where she is near death and goes to nuc is hilarious. Very few films that goood these days have

[xoxox]

Sometimes reading Steyn is entertainment aplenty.

[Steely Tom]

Carole Lombard was the original "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" in My Man Godfrey.

I read that Clark Gable never got over her death.

[Bon of Babble]

We recently visited Hearst’s castle on the Central California coast - Hearst had a special bedroom built just for Gable and Lombard after they’d gotten married - was open to the sky with a spectacular, domed latticework ceiling. He had to have it covered over because of rain, etc. - Still, it was beautiful...and sad.

No, I don’t think he ever got over her death.

[Steely Tom]

Wow. Cool story !

[nickcarraway]

Great movie. She was a a great comic actress, but I think her best was My Man Godfrey, starring opposite her ex-husband, who was very funny in his own right. My understanding is they got along. The actresses who play her parents and sister were also great.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Shows how they got around the Hays Code with some of their jokes. a fun movie! Now movies are simply unfit to watch.

“And Here we have Miss Amsterdam(and I better stop there.)”

[nickcarraway]

Hitchcock was good friends with her, and made a movie especially for her.

[Macho MAGA Man]

There’s still remains of the plane at the crash site where she perished.

[Steely Tom]

Wow. He didn't have a very high opinion of actors. That's something.

But I think she was one of the founders of United Artists. She must have had a head on her shoulders.

[nickcarraway]

Mary Pickford was the cofounder of United Artists.

[Steely Tom]

Thanks for the correction.

[willk]

She was very patriotic. Died after a war bonds drive. Clark Gable never got over her death. I think she was the #1 Hollywood beauty ever. Jean Simmons being #2. Marilyn Monroe #3.

[willk]

The cause of the crash was probably because the the copilot was used to landing at Boulder City airport. This time they had to land at Las Vegas to refuel and unfortunately he put in the coordinates as if they they were taking off from Boulder City. This put them on a direct course to Mt.Potosi where they crashed just short of the top of the mountain. I learned about all this after trying to find the crash site of Bonanza Airlines Flight 114 on November 15, 1964 during a rare snowstorm killing all 29 on board. This was important to me because I saw the wreckage of Bonanza 114 on Walter Cronkite CBS news the next day when I was 7 years old. Bonanza Airlines F-27 planes flew right over our house on half mile final approach to Blythe Airport.