January 16, 1942

January 15, 1942

January 14, 1942

Carole Lombard and mother Bess Peters stop over in Chicago on their way to Indianapolis.

December, 1939

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard en route to Atlanta for the premiere of Gone With the Wind

Carole Lombard, RKO 1939

Gable and Lombard, 1936

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable out in public

On the set, 1941

Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard, Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Supernatural (1932)

Carole Lombard, 1933

Carole Lombard, 1931

Carole Lombard, 1937

My Man Godfrey (1936)

Carole Lombard as Irene Bullock

RIP Carole Lombard

January 16, 1942

Carole Lombard, circa 1940

At the Encino ranch she shared with Clark Gable.

Carole Lombard, 1937

Hollywood's highest paid star posing at home for a 1937 LIFE magazine cover story.

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, 1936

Gable sports the sideburns he grew for the lead in Parnell, a monumental historical flop everywhere but in China. Lombard pranked him by hiring a plane to litter MGM with fliers proclaiming "50 Million Chinamen Can't Be Wrong!."

Carole Lombard, 1937

Carole Lombard, 1934

Happy Birthday Carole Lombard

October 6, 1908 -- January 16, 1942

Carole Lombard Tribute in Color