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TCM Birthday Tribute: Carole Lombard

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Iconic Hollywood golden-age actress Jane Alice Peters, better known as Carole Lombard, was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on this date in 1908. While she was unfortunately lost at the young age of 33 after perishing in a Nevada plane crash on Jan. 16, 1942, her legacy is burned into the silver screen. Turner Classic Movies is celebrating Lombard’s birthday with a number of mem

orable films from her 21-year career this morning and afternoon, including a number of the screwball comedies with which she was largely associated. The lineup features, in order: the comedy Fools for Scandal (pictured) (1938); Vigil in the Night (1940), a drama directed by George Stevens; In Name Only (1939), a romance co-starring Cary Grant and Kay Francis; Swing High, Swing Low (1937), a comedy/drama also featuring Fred Macmurray; the comedy The Gay Bride (1934); Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), a screwball comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock, of all people, co-starring Robert Montgomery; the screwball comedy Nothing Sacred (1937), also starring Fredric

March; and To Be or Not to Be (1942), director Ernst Lubitsch’s iconic dark comedy, which proved to be Lombard’s final film and was released about a month after her death.

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