Barbara La Marr

Mayer named the actress Hedy Lamarr after Barbara La Marr, who had been one of his favourite actresses. She is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Although Gable remarried, he was buried next to her. In the 1930s, Louis B. Its producers decided to cut part of the film in which her character asks, "What can happen in a plane?". The child was renamed Don Gallery and grew up to become an actor and a sometime boyfriend of Elizabeth Taylor; he now lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Her final film, To Be or Not to Be, was in post-production at the time of her death. Some years after her death, it was revealed that she had mothered an illegitimate son, Marvin Carville La Marr, who was adopted after her death by the actress Zasu Pitts and her husband, film executive Tom Gallery. The Liberty ship SS Lombard was named for her, and Gable attended its launching on January 15, 1944.

At the time of her death she was married to the actor Jack Dougherty. 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. Lamarr married for the first time at the age of seventeen, and during her short life was married five times. 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. The newspapers of the day referred to her as "The Girl Too Beautiful To Live", a slight variation on the title that had been closely associated with her. Carole Lombard was killed in a airplane crash in Nevada when returning from a war bond tour in 1942. She died from tuberculosis and nephritis in Altadena, California and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. She married Clark Gable in 1939.

During this time she became addicted to heroin, and her addiction, combined with her busy social life and gruelling work commitments took their toll on her health. She married actor William Powell in 1931; they divorced two years later. Her film career flourished, but she also embraced the Hollywood nightlife, remarking in an interview that she slept no more than two hours a night, as life was too short to waste on sleep. It was a comedy, My Man Godfrey (1936) for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Over the next few years she acted frequently in films, and was widely publicised as "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World". Carole Lombard became one of Hollywood's top comedy actresses in the 1930s. After marrying and moving with her husband to New York, New York, La Marr found employment writing screenplays and her association with movie makers led to her returning to Los Angeles and making her film debut as an actress in 1920. In 1930 she began working as for Paramount Pictures.

Changing her name to Barbara La Marr, she continued working on the fringes of showbusiness, but at that time her main ambition was to become a writer. She became a well known actress and managed to make a smooth transition to sound films, starting with High Voltage (1929). While still in her teens she was arrested for dancing in a burlesque club. She also worked for Mack Sennett and Pathé Pictures. After spending her early years in a small town, she was impressed by the nightlife of the rapidly growing Los Angeles. In 1925 she was signed as a contract player with 20th Century Fox. She was known after her adoption as Rheatha Dale Watson. In some of her early movies she was credited as Jane Peters, and then as Carol Lombard.

Born in Yakima, Washington, La Marr moved with her adoptive parents to California while in her early teens. In the 1920s she worked in several low-budget productions. Barbara La Marr (July 28, 1896 - January 30, 1926) was an American film actress. 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.