Tag: bond drive

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.

January 25, 2013 /

TO BE OR NOT TO BE – CAROLE LOMBARD

Lombard’s last film was in post when her plane went down – which explains the slightly elegiac tone of the ad.