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"Carole Lombard's tragic loss of life means that something of gaiety and beauty have been extracted from the world at the same time they are simply needed most." (Errol Flynn) A whole lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important numbers, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to rate on the lives of America's most important women and men in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. On January 16, 1942, simply a couple of weeks after Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World Warfare II, the country endured what were considered the first civilian fatalities of the battle when a aircraft crashed into the side of your hill southwest of NEVADA. Aboard the aircraft were 15 servicemen, but the aircraft was also taking one of Hollywood's biggest superstars: celebrity Carole Lombard. Although Lombard's loss of life and her relationship to Gone with the Breeze star Clark Gable have overshadowed her profession, her untimely loss of life in 1942 lower short the life of 1 of Hollywood's most dominant stars at the time. Actually, Lombard's platinum look and her unique mannerisms had helped her end up being the biggest star of the screwball genre by the end of the 1930s, and her movies were so successful that she was the highest paid celebrity in Hollywood by the start of the 1940s. As English critic Graham Greene said of her, "Platinum blonde, with a heart-shaped face, sensitive, impish features and a physique made to be swathed in magic lamé, Lombard wriggled expressively through such classics of hysteria as Twentieth Hundred years and My Man Godfrey." Indeed, despite dying at the age of 33, the North american Film Institute known her among the biggest film symbols of the 20th hundred years.
