Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942)

Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942) was among the first Hollywood screen beauties who never aged.. Having lived for for 33 years, she will always be remembered as a young and vibrant beauty and screen icon, immortalized by her movies and photos.

Bette Davis (1908 - 1982), ca late 1930s

Colorized a low resolution photo of screen legend Bette Davis (1908 - 1982). The original shows her with a dark hair, but I colorized her hair blonde.

Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942), ca 1932

Colorized a photo of Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942) recognized the Queen of Screwball Comedy, a screen legend and fashion icon. She took the crown from Greta Garbo as the highest paid actress in Hollywood during the late 1930s. Of all the screen goddesses that the "King" of Hollywood" Clark Gable worked with on screen (and with whom he never failed to have an affair), it was the blonde blue-eyed Carole he married in 1938.   That may say a lot about his taste in women, but no matter, Clark continued to have off screen romances with her leading ladies, notably Joan Crawford, which Carole knew but did not make a fuss as she understood her man. When news of Carole's death from the crash of her TWA flight reached him, Clark Gable was in bed with Joan, who consoled and comforted a genuinely devastated Gable.

Loretta Young, photo colorized by Alex Lim

Colorized a vintage photo of Hollywood actress and 1947 Oscar best actress winner Loretta Young (1913 - 2000) for her role in The Farmer's Daughter. She may well be best known for having fathered Clark Gable's daughter, Judith Lewis Young.  The two had affair as romantic leads of the 1935 Call of the Wild.  Young was a beautiful siren at 22 and Gable was already a dashing screen idol at 34 already married to another woman (Maria Langham). 

The affair and the resulting love child was kept under raps as Loretta did not want to damage her career or Gable's. Twentieth Century Pictures learned about the pregnancy and pressured her for an abortion. Young, a devout Catholic, did not accede and the child, born on Nov 6, 1935  was passed off as adopted. But few in Hollywood were fooled as Judith bore a strong resemblance to Gable, and her true parentage was widely rumored in entertainment circles.