Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana)  
(October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942)

Lombard was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. She
made her film debut at age twelve in The Perfect Crime (1921). In October
1924, at the age of 16, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation,
and got her first break the following year opposite Edmund Lowe in the
successful drama Marriage in Transit.

The successful career of Carole Lombard ended at age 33 when she died
in an airplane crash.