Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star by Morgan, Michelle [Hardback, 256 pages]

Description: The first full biography for more than forty years of Hollywood legend, Carole Lombard Carole Lombard was the very opposite of the typical 1930s starlet. A no-nonsense woman, she worked hard, took no prisoners and had a great passion for life. As a result, she became Hollywood's highest-paid star. From the outside, Carole's life was one of great glamour, fun and sophistication, and yet privately she endured much heartache and despair. As a child, her mother moved Carole and her brothers across the country and away from their beloved father. Carole then began a film career, only to have it cut short after a devastating car accident. Picking herself back up, she was rocked by the accidental shooting of her lover; a failed marriage to actor William Powell; and then the heartache of infertility during her marriage to Hollywood's king, Clark Gable. Lombard put on a brave face and marched forward, promising to be happy and positive. Sadly her life was cut short in a plane crash so catastrophic that, to this day, pieces of the plane are still buried in the mountain where it happened, seventy-five years ago. In Carole Lombard, bestselling author Michelle Morgan tells the story of a woman whose remarkable life and controversial death continue to enthrall. AUTHOR: Michelle Morgan is the author of the bestselling 'Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed' (Constable, 2007), 'The Mammoth Guide to Hollywood Scandals' (Robinson 2013), '271 Steps: The Life and Death of Thelma Todd' (Chicago Review Press, 2015), 'Madonna' (Robinson, 2015) and the forthcoming 'Before Marilyn' (THP, 2015). SELLING POINTS: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were very much the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of 1930s Hollywood Access to hundreds of previously unseen documents from Carole's acting agent, press agent, and producer David O'Selznick. These documents all shed a great deal of information on her life Access to hitherto unpublished FBI files, buried in a small museum in the US, which relate to her controversial and tragic death Will appeal to Lombard's many fans, as well as lovers of 1930s Hollywood 30 b/w images

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