Fireball: Telling Carole Lombard's Story - Exploring the life and death of Hollywood star.
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 เม.ย. 2014
- Pittsburgh author Robert Matzen is getting national attention for his new book "Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3." The Hollywood actress was married to the world's most popular movie star, Clark Gable, when she was killed in a plane crash during a 1942 mission to sell war bonds for her country. Decades later, Matzen climbed the mountain near Las Vegas where the wreckage still lays scattered. Those tragic images, along with beautiful photos of Lombard, and Matzen's fascinating story about her life with Gable will captivate WQED viewers. Watch More: www.wqed.org/pittsburgh360/
Subscribe to WQED: bit.ly/WQEDTH-cam
Connect with WQED:
► Facebook: / wqedpittsburgh
► Instagram: / wqed
► Twitter: / wqed
Just bought the book Fireball. Such a great book so far. RIP Carole Lombard. Such a beautiful, talented woman.
Robert Matzen is a great writer of biography and does major homework to get his fact in place - read a few of his books; he has a great ability you draw you in. I really liked Fireball.
Mr Matzen's book is warmly written and lovingly done.
Mr Matzen I read your book and I loved it. Warmly written and lovingly done. Terrific book. Blessings to you.
This is a beautiful tribute. Thanks for posting.
Gone way too soon, Carole is my favorite of the classic Hollywood starlets. She deserved an Oscar for "My Man Godfrey." She was down to earth and so naturally pretty.
If you read this Mr Matzen thank you so much for the wonderful tribute.
Carole was an absolute gem.
Every single person on that doomed plane was as important as Carole. The end.
Gable didn't want to do Gone With The Wind. He was bribed into doing it. The producer of GWTW wanted Gable. Gable's wife would not give him a divorce. So the producer told his wife if she gave him a divorce, he would pay her $500,000 but only if she would persuade Gable to do GWTW . She never told Gable about the bribe, but she did as the producer asked and told Gable if he did the picture, she would grant him the divorce and he would be free to marry Lombard. True story. The rest is history.
Very good book. Bought on audible and loved the narration.
Love her. Thank you. May she and everyone on that flight rest in peace.
I really enjoyed this book, very easy to read with a lot of details about that era
There is NO actress then or now that can EVER hold a candle to Carole Lombard & Jean Harlow! Godspeed to you both. 💝
Peggy Hill Peggy, both actresses were not even like one another. And their lives were very different except that both died young. But, I do agree with you about Lombard. Jean Harlow' s mother was into Scientology that forbids one to receive any hospital care which most likely led to Jean's death. Lombard's mother was into numerology which Carole flippantly followed. Both Scientology and numerology are still popular cults in today's Hollywood.
CoasterLisa.....Oh, I agree with you wholeheartedly! They both are my favorites. I sat in movie theatres with my Dad watching these movies. (He's almost 89) By the way, you look very similar to Ms. Lombard.
@@TheCoasterLisa Hi, Lisa! Firstly, great fun, watching your roller coaster videos. Secondly, though, a correction regarding Jean Harlow's mom. She was a follower of the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, NOT Scientology (a frequently confused ideology, although vastly different). Christian Science followers do not believe in following modern medical science, just like Scientology, but Scientology was not founded until the 1950's well past the day of Jean Harlow and after the death of beloved Carole Lombard. (Christian Science was founded in the late 1800's by Eddy.) It's unfortunate that both cult-like "religions" have contributed to deaths when medical care may have saved those ensnared in cults.
I thought I knew a lot about Clark Gable because I knew some people who knew him and I never heard anything about him being unfaithful to Carol thought they had a very good relationship I'd like to find your book and read it everybody seemed to say it so good and I like a little documentary you did a very much and climbing that mountain man must have been very difficult
a great informative piece of history!! have the Lombard documentary from the biography channel , but it is from 1999! just ordered the book on amazon!! she is/was my favourite actress!! the best! so underrated, hopefully their will be a perfect biopicture about her! not the terrible one with jill clayburgh from 1979 I think!!
Just finished this most fascinating book. The irony is not lost in the fact she wanted to hurry home to her philandering husband who became the man she'd always wanted him to be after her death.
Fireball a very good book to have read highly recommend.
Robert is a skilled writer and filmmaker. And Carole was a one and only! And we're both Hoosiers.
God Bless You!
Hey readers I just finished Dutch Girl the story of AUDREY HEPBURN Good 👍 reading.
Listening to this commentary about clark and carole, I being the author of "I May Not Know What I'm Talking About But I'm Gonna Say it Anyway', would say that he was the perfect example of person who needed to get a few things out of his system, when a person lacks in their formative years being it be opportunities, finances, love. etc. it delays their development where coming to their own becomes very important. Clark didn't until his MGM days making him pass thirty. where once he got a taste of celebrity he was ready to do all the things someone in their twenty would have been doing. Carole's mistake was not seeing this with her letting love blind her. if she had made him truly chase after her where things were a no go til he proved he was ready to truly settle down what you wrote about may not have happened. But she got him when he was still feeling himself, something understandable from him being a late bloomer, as well as the lack of confidence he garnered early before he became the clark gable we know. with the lesson here being a person will never be a good mate until they are truly ready to settle down and comfortable in their own skin, where if you do get with a person like that there will be a lot of pain until they have. please also remember, clark first two marriages were based on opportunities not love. and where with the latter, if LB Mayer had stayed out of his business when clark found out he wasn't legally married to ria, he could have been able to freely pursued other women openly possible getting things out of his system by the time him and carole got together in 36.
Beautifully written book, painful read :-(
Is there a reason why they've never removed the crash debris? I'm sure there are ways it could be moved today. That's pretty horrific seeing it still there.
Why? Debris not tell anything except some flight accident if someone climping there. The end of their life was too quick to notice. Only risk is tourist trap, but it too difficult to go there.
Sure, cost involved. And no one seems to care about rubbish all over polluting the landscape with abandoned buildings full of trash aswell.
I really don't think anything would have stopped Gable's affairs not even Carole some men are just juvenile that way but I really think that Carole would have grown very weary of the whole mess & left him had she lived chasing him out of different beds would have been futile, poor Carole!
Lana was 20 years younger than Clark.