January 25, 2013 /

SS CAROLE LOMBARD – JANUARY 15, 1944

A bereaved Clark Gable looks on as Irene Dunne christens the ship with Louis B. Mayer looking on, the date commemorated the second anniversary of Carole Lombard’s record breaking bond drive for WWII.

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Tags1942 1944 Advertising bond drive Carole Lombard Clark Gable Elegiac Ernst Lubitsch Irene Dunne Jack Benny last film Louis B. Mayer Robert Stack Romantic Comedy To Be Or Not To Be United Artists war bonds WWII

2 Comments

  1. A Gripping Life
    January 25, 2013

    Gosh, that almost looks like a set, doesn’t it?

    • Vickie Lester
      January 25, 2013

      These old newspaper photos — they edited out a woman in the background for better composition and in doing so gave the whole thing a weird painterly quality.

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