I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

On March 29 1939 during a break in production on Gone with the Wind Gable and Lombard drove out to Kingman Arizona and were married in a ceremony with only Gable's press agent Otto Winkler in attendance. She spent her early childhood in Fort Wayne near the St. Gable was flown to Las Vegas after learning of the tragedy to claim the bodies of his wife mother-in-law and Winkler who aside from being his press agent had been a close friend.

Graham Greene praised the "heartbreaking and nostalgic melodies" of her faster-than-thought delivery. ". "Platinum blonde with a heart-shaped face delicate impish features and a figure made to be swathed in silver lamé Carole Lombard wriggled expressively through such classics of hysteria as Twentieth Century and My Man Godfrey.