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Title: S.S. Carole Lombard goes to sea
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photo caption dated Jan. 15, 1944 reads: "In an impressive ceremony attended by leaders of the film industry, actress Irene Dunne, center, is shown launching the S.S. Carole Lombard, Liberty ship named in honor of the film star who died in an air crash while making a war bond tour, at Wilmington today. Left to right, Capt. Clark Gable, husband of Miss Lombard; Mrs. Walter Lang, matron of honor [whited out]; Miss Dunne, and Louis B. Mayer." Photo dated: Jan. 15, 1944.; Photo caption dated Oct. 29, 1957 reads: "Two more big names in the Mayer firmament: Clark Gable and Irene Dunne. This 1944 occasion was sad, however, They were at the christening of the Liberty ship named in honor of Carole Lombard, Gable's wife who died in air crash."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00076853
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2137.
CARL0000078505
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24321
Subject: Gable, Clark,--1901-1960
Dunne, Irene,--1898-1990
Mayer, Louis B.--(Louis Burt),--1885-1957
Carole Lombard (Ship)
Liberty ships
Motion picture actors and actresses
Motion picture producers and directors
Dedications
Wilmington (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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