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"Carole Lombard" was an American film actress. She was particularly noted for her highly neurotic, energetic and often off-beat roles in the screwball comedy/screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s.

Lombard was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. She attended Virgil Middle School/Virgil Junior High School, where she excelled in sports, and while playing baseball caught the attention of the film director Allan Dwan, which led to her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921). In October 1924, at the age of 16, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation, and got her first break the following year opposite Edmund Lowe in the successful drama Marriage in Transit. She was dropped by Fox after a car accident that left a scar on her face. Lombard appeared in 15 short films of Pathé Exchange between September 1927 and March 1929, and then began appearing in feature films such as High Voltage (1929 film)/High Voltage and The Racketeer. After a successful one-off appearance opposite Warner Baxter in Fox's The Arizona Kid (1930 film)/The Arizona Kid, she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures who cast her in the Buddy Rogers (actor)/Buddy Rogers comedy Safety in Numbers (1930 film)/Safety in Numbers (1930).