Hildegard Knef

. She is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Although Gable remarried, he was buried next to her. Hildegard Knef was one of the most important actresses of post-war Germany. Its producers decided to cut part of the film in which her character asks, "What can happen in a plane?". She was sometimes compared to that other great German actress, Marlene Dietrich, in that they both were, or portrayed as, the liberated, self-confident woman. Her final film, To Be or Not to Be, was in post-production at the time of her death. The incident in the latter film sparked one of the largest scandals in German filmmaking history and drew the criticism of the Roman Catholic Church. The Liberty ship SS Lombard was named for her, and Gable attended its launching on January 15, 1944.

Arguably, her most influential roles included that of Susanne Wallner in Wolfgang Staudte's film "Die Mörder sind unter uns (The Murderers Are Among Us)" (the first film released after the Second World War in East Germany and produced by the Soviet filmmaking enterprise DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme) as well as her role as Marina in "Die Sünderin (The Sinner)" in which she performed the first nude scene in German filmmaking. Roosevelt, who admired her patriotism, declared her the first woman killed in the line of duty during the war and posthumously awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff. Just before boarding the plane in Indiana, she addressed her fans, saying "Before I say goodbye to you all, come on and join me in a big cheer! V for Victory!" President Franklin D. Hildegard Knef (December 28, 1925 - February 1, 2002) was a German actress, singer and writer. Carole Lombard was killed in a airplane crash in Nevada when returning from a war bond tour in 1942. She married Clark Gable in 1939.

She married actor William Powell in 1931; they divorced two years later. It was a comedy, My Man Godfrey (1936) for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Carole Lombard became one of Hollywood's top comedy actresses in the 1930s. In 1930 she began working as for Paramount Pictures.

She became a well known actress and managed to make a smooth transition to sound films, starting with High Voltage (1929). She also worked for Mack Sennett and Pathé Pictures. In 1925 she was signed as a contract player with 20th Century Fox. In some of her early movies she was credited as Jane Peters, and then as Carol Lombard.

In the 1920s she worked in several low-budget productions. She made her film debut at the age of 12 in A Perfect Crime (1921) (There has been some speculation that she was actually a few years older than her given birthdate). She was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 - January 16, 1942) was an American actress.