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Carole Lombard

A screwball-comedy virtuoso with a glamorous image and a willingness to look gloriously ridiculous.

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Lombard’s speed, looseness, and comic fearlessness helped establish the modern screen heroine of screwball comedy.

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My Man GodfreyNothing SacredTo Be or Not to Be

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1936 · Screwball comedy

My Man Godfrey

A forgotten man becomes butler to a wealthy family in a screwball comedy with class satire underneath.

1937 · Screwball comedy

Nothing Sacred

Lombard and Fredric March skewer celebrity journalism in a fast Technicolor satire.

1942 · Dark comedy

To Be or Not to Be

A Polish theater troupe uses performance itself as a weapon against the Nazi occupation.