The king of the movies… one of the most rampantly male actors and sort of a predator in Hollywood. Robert Matzen is the author of “Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3.” Nellie Simmons Meier died of diabetes in 1944. Potosi in 1942. At 4:00 local time on the morning of January 16, 1942 in Indianapolis, Indiana, Carole Lombard, her mother, and her MGM press agent boarded Flight 3 to return to California. Her father Bryan Karr was big downtown booster, one of creators of 500 Festival, doting Daddy to Paula. When Gable was notified of her death (siebar: his gossiped-about carrying-ons with Lana Turner (I think) is what set green-eyed Carol into sudden return.) So the flight she got on in Indianapolis had originated at La Guardia and then it flew to Newark and then it flew to Pittsburgh then Columbus, Dayton and then finally it went to Indianapolis, where it picked up Carole and then it flew to St. Louis and Kansas City and Wichita and Amarillo. In 1977, he told Although it’s unclear how Keene may have obtained this information, he repeated the story frequently and with great relish. Robert Matzen takes a different approach to the traditional Hollywood biography, in part using storytelling skills honed as a feature documentary filmmaker. Wreckage was scattered in a radius of 500 yards and some of the victims were strewn around the waist-high snow. Full on. What became the Lombard Suite, (later Presidential Suite where Eisenhower stayed and I worked as “housemaid” until recognized) . So she hit her stride in comedy.She made something called “My Man Godfrey,” which is her claim to fame. Can you email me some dates/times when I can visit with you? Jan. 19, 1942: The Times’ Gene Sherman reports from the scene of the crash that killed Carole Lombard and 21 others: “The totally demolished luxurious Douglas DC-3 Skyclub presented a grim, sorrowful picture on its rocky resting place. As we have in the past and more recently touched upon the Claypool, I have sent dribs and drabbles of information. It just hopped its way across the country.And finally, it got to Albuquerque, and that point there was great consternation because the U.S. Army Air Corp had priority seating. Box 2999, Indianapolis, IN 46206 Personally, I think she was a pretty mediocre dramatic actress, but in comedy. Her niece, who was living at Tuckaway in 1942 and who sold the house to Keene, died in 1973. Hoosier-born actress Carole Lombard was no exception, relying on lighting and photo retouching to mask the scars on her face from a catastrophic automobile accident in her teens.But on January 15, 1942, Lombard may have pulled off the biggest photo scam of her career by tricking news photographers, local dignitaries, and hundreds of fans and bystanders into believing that she had just arrived via train at Union Station to headline a WWII bond drive when in fact she had flown to Indy the evening before to secretly meet with a palm reader who would warn the star of her imminent death.I first learned of the possible staged photo two months ago, when I received an intriguing email with a subject line that read, “If you’re an Indianapolis history buff, you’ve probably heard the story, which was repeated with frequency and flair by Ken Keene, the late owner of an historic Meridian Park bungalow built in 1910 by famed Indianapolis palm reader Nellie Simmons Meier and her husband, fashion designer George Meier. She then embarked on a jam-packed day of activities that included a bond drive at the Statehouse, a flag raising at the Claypool Hotel, tea at the Governor’s Mansion and a patriotic rally at Cadle Tabernacle.After the rally, Lombard returned to her suite at the Claypool Hotel, visited with some Indiana relatives, and then left the hotel shortly after 2 a.m. to board a plane to Los Angeles, where she shared a home with her husband, Clark Gable.Given her frenetic schedule of public appearances, Matzen believes that the only way Lombard could have found time to meet with Meier was if the star secretly flew to Indianapolis the evening before the bond drive, stayed overnight at the Claypool Hotel, and then met up with the rest of her traveling party that afternoon at Union Station to make it appear as if she had just arrived with them via train.The bed from the Claypool suite where Carole Lombard stayed the night before her death.

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