Carole Lombard, one of the 1930s most significant film actresses, was killed in a plane crash in Nevada, USA on the 16th of January, 1942. She was thirty-three at the time.

Born Jane Alice Peters in Indiana in 1908, she became famous for her screwball comedies. However she starred in more serious films in the late Thirties and…

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