The first full biography for more than forty years of Hollywood legend, Carole Lombard Carole Lombard was the very opposite of the typical 1930s starlet. A no-nonsense woman, she worked hard, took no prisoners and had a great passion for life. As a result, she became Hollywood's highest-paid star. From the outside, Carole's life was one of great glamour, fun and sophistication, and yet privately she endured much heartache and despair. As a child, her mother moved Carole and her brothers across the country and away from their beloved father. Carole then began a film career, only to have it cut short after a devastating car accident. Picking herself back up, she was rocked by the accidental shooting of her lover; a failed marriage to actor William Powell; and then the heartache of infertility during her marriage to Hollywood's king, Clark Gable. Lombard put on a brave face and marched forward, promising to be happy and positive. Sadly her life was cut short in a plane crash so catastrophic that, to this day, pieces of the plane are still buried in the mountain where it happened, seventy-five years ago. In Carole Lombard, bestselling author Michelle Morgan tells the story of a woman whose remarkable life and controversial death continue to enthrall. AUTHOR: Michelle Morgan is the author of the bestselling 'Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed' (Constable, 2007), 'The Mammoth Guide to Hollywood Scandals' (Robinson 2013), '271 Steps: The Life and Death of Thelma Todd' (Chicago Review Press, 2015), 'Madonna' (Robinson, 2015) and the forthcoming 'Before Marilyn' (THP, 2015). SELLING POINTS: ? Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were very much the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of 1930s Hollywood ? Access to hundreds of previously unseen documents from Carole's acting agent, press agent, and producer David O'Selznick. These documents all shed a great deal of information on her life ? Access to hitherto unpublished FBI files, buried in a small museum in the US, which relate to her controversial and tragic death ? Will appeal to Lombard's many fans, as well as lovers of 1930s Hollywood 30 b/w images
