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I can't win working with Welles. If the picture's a huge hit he'll get the credit, and if it's a flop, I'll be blamed. - on why she wouldn't work with Orson Welles
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- She was offered the lead role in a melodrama, "Smiler with a Knife," to be directed by a newcomer at RKO named Orson Welles. She turned it down, opting to return to screwball comedy in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1942). Welles refused to make Smiler without her; instead, he began work on Citizen Kane (1941).
- The plane crash that killed Carol took place less then a month before the Oscars. Despite her mothers premonition of the disaster, Lombard refused to take a train to Los Angeles. She was reputedly in a rush after getting wind of an alleged affair between her husband Clark Gable & Lana Turner.
- During World War II, after her death, a Liberty ship was named after her.
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