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  • Carole Lombard, the Hoosier Tornado

  • Indiana Biography Series
  • Written by: Wes D. Gehring
  • Narrated by: Wesley Scott
  • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

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Carole Lombard, the Hoosier Tornado

Written by: Wes D. Gehring
Narrated by: Wesley Scott
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Publisher's Summary

Wes D. Gehring, a noted authority on film comedy, examines Lombard's legacy, focusing on both the public and private figure from her early days as merely beautiful window dressing in Mack Sennett silent films, to her development as the leading motion-picture comedienne of her time, to her tragic death in a January 1942 plane crash.

The book is published by Indiana Historical Society Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2003 Indiana Historical Society Press (P)2021 Redwood Audiobooks
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"Details Lombard's life, times and some delicious backstage gossip with a historian's eye and a biographer's appetite for discovery." (Publishers Weekly)

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