Gable & Lombard, A Biography By Warren G. Harris
Collectible: First Edition review Copy nr 2237.
Gable & Lombard, A Biography By Warren G. Harris
Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster 1974, 1st edition
Condition: Good. The original boards with a DJ are shelf rubbed and edge worn. This book was read and enjoyed but is still overall good. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were united by Hollywood, and destroyed by tragedy. Carole Lombard’s mother didn’t want to get on the plane. The stars were all wrong, she said, and her astrologer had warned her not to fly. But Carole Lombard was in a hurry. She’d spent the week on a whirlwind tour of the country, selling war bonds for the United States government, and she couldn’t bear another moment away from her husband, Clark Gable, Hollywood’s most dashing leading man. She flipped a coin—heads for the train, tails for the plane. Carole won. They flew.
Her plane crashed into a mountainside shortly after it left Las Vegas, killing all aboard. This intimate biography by Warren G. Harris tells the story of Gable and Lombard, whose romance shocked the movie industry, and whose tragedy would change Hollywood forever.
Heavily illustrated ,packed with anecdotes about famous stars, famous houses, famous movies and famous parties, Gamble and Lombard is at once a triumph of nostalgia and a brilliant retelling of romantic legend that seemed to many Americans of the time more real than life itself and more romantic than the movies but which was, in fact simply a love story.
