For five brief years, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were the most dashing, glamorous couple on the planet. He was a manly heartthrob, the star of Gone with the Wind and It Happened One Night.

They were the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (minus kids) of Hollywood’s Golden Era — but the legendary romance of superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard ended abruptly when she was killed in ...

Gable and Lombard's idyllic marriage was sadly short-lived. In 1942 Carole Lombard died in a plane crash as she returned home from a war-bond tour. Grief-stricken, Clark Gable enlisted in the air ...

Gable almost had it granted as a Luftwaffe shell passed right between his feet. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard posing for photographers shortly after their marriage in 1939. Women were always easy ...

Our deepest sympathy goes to Clark Gable and Carole’s two brothers.” Powell is now married to another actress, Diana Lewis. Miss Lombard’s secretary, Madeliene Fields, whom she called ...

Matzen's book, "Fireball: Carole Lombard & the Mystery of Flight 3 ... But more than anything else, the connection with king-of-the-movies Clark Gable and the mystique of their relationship ...

On Jan. 16, 1942, Carole Lombard was best known as a screwball comedy actress. But not only was Lombard the highest paid actress of her time—starring in movies such as Twentieth Century, My Man ...

Off-screen, he enjoyed affairs and marriages with some of the industry’s most beautiful and acclaimed stars, notably Joan Crawford and Carole Lombard. American actor Clark Gable (1901 - 1960 ...

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard met first in 1932, while making a picture called No Man of Her Own. Gable was then a novice leading man, only four years removed from the career of bumming ...

The first — the Gable and Lombard penthouse — is named after Hollywood icons Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, who resided in the hotel in the 1930s. Gable, still considered one of Hollywood’s ...

In his lifetime, Clark Gable would be crowned the King of Hollywood ... if not for his marriage to Carole Lombard and his role as Rhett Butler in 1939’s Gone With the Wind.

Clark Gable died four months before his son ... Gable had been divorced three times and widowed when then-wife Carole Lombard ...