Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942) was an American actress.
She made her film debut at the age of 12 in A Perfect Crime (1921). In the 1920s she worked in several low-budget productions. She managed to make a smooth transition to films with sound, starting with High Voltage (1929). She became one of Hollywood's top comedy actresses in the 1930s. It was a comedy, My Man Godfrey (1936) for which received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. She married Clark Gable in 1939. She was killed in a plane crash when returning from a War Bond tour in 1942.