Carole Lombard

format_quote (On why she wouldn't work with Orson Welles) "I can't win working with Welles. If the picture's a huge hit he'll get the credit, and if it's a flop, I'll be blamed."

stars  The Role " Ellie Andrews " In It happened One night was Originally Supposed to Go to Carole Lombard But Lombard tuned it Down And Went to Claudette Colbert Who Won the Oscar For this Role

stars  During World War II, after her death, a Liberty ship was named after her.

stars  A 1926 auto accident badly cut her face. Advanced plastic surgery and adroit use of make-up covered the scars. However, at the time the belief was that use of anesthetic during the operation would leave worse scars, so she endured the reconstructive surgery without an anesthetic.

stars  Linked romantically to crooner Russ Columbo until his accidental death late in 1934.

stars  Lombard was listed in the credits of Safety in Numbers (1930), her first Paramount release, as Carole (instead of Carol as in her previous billings). They decided that this would now be the official spelling and she went along with it. She legally changed her name to Carole Lombard in 1936. Only in her first film, A Perfect Crime (1921) did she use her real name, Jane Peters.