Carole Lombard

Biography

Carole Lombard was an American actress known for her energetic and off-beat roles in screwball comedies of the 1930s. She began her career at age 12 as a screen debutant and signed with Fox Film Corporation at 16, eventually becoming the highest-paid star in Hollywood by the late 1930s. Lombard's breakthrough came with Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century (1934), followed by notable films like My Man Godfrey (1936) and Nothing Sacred (1937). She died tragically in a plane crash at age 33.