Carole Lombard

NARRATOR: This Indiana Bicentennial minute is made possible by the Indiana Historical Society and law firm of Krieg DeVault.

Images of Carole Lombard is shown.

PAULEY: You might say the standard of Hollywood glamour was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Jane Alice Peters was born in Fort Wayne but it was in Hollywood where she gained her fame as Carole Lombard.

Images of young Carole Lombard is shown.

PAULEY: Her single mother moved the family to Los Angeles when she was 6. At 12 she made her screen debut and by the late 1930s was the highest paid star in Hollywood. Gorgeous, witty and funny.

Videos of her and Clark Gable is shown.

PAULEY: In 1930, she married Clark Gable, becoming perhaps Hollywood’s first super couple.

Videos of her raising money for war bonds are shown.

PAULEY: In 1942, she gave her life for her country. Returning from Indianapolis on a war bond drive in which she raised 2 million dollars, her plane crashed in Nevada. She was 33. Fort Wayne’s Carole Lombard, one of the greatest stars of all time. I’m Jane Pauley with this Indiana Bicentennial Minute.

NARRATOR: Made possible by the Indiana Historical Society and the law firm of Krieg DeVault.