"A wonderful girl. Swore like a man. Other women try, but she really did. She was like one of the fellas, yet there she was, this beautiful girl."
actor and costar Fred MacMurray
"You could toss a bolt of fabric at Carole Lombard and however it would land on her she would look smart."
designer Travis Banton
with future husband Clark Gable
Gable's favorite photo
"The greatest star in the world. The greatest actress. She could do anything -- you could do everything with her...It was his idea that she sit in that curiously straddled position in Nothing Sacred during the hangover scene. A very unladylike position but she did it like a shot. And, you know something? She looked great."
director William A. Wellman
"She just overwhelmed me completely. There was just something about her that I found uncannily wonderful...She was the only Hollywood legend I found totally accessible and felt I could shake hands with. The others, like Garbo and Hepburn, were polite and friendly, but somehow in the the early 1940s, untouchable."
Gene Kelly
with costarFred MacMurray
with first husband William Powell
"I never dreamed that Lombard had such a performance in her. Her work is superb. Her art in this picture [Twentieth Century] is compelling, understanding and convincing."
actor and costar John Barrymore
"I was wild about the dame...She was the only woman I've ever known who could say four-letter words and make it come out poetry. I can watch Nothing Sacred forever."
director William A. Wellman
"She was wonderful to work with. She would stay behind till any hour of the night, and if something bothered us we'd get together at night and go over it and get it solved. She was always on time and knew her lines, and was a great, great artist."
director Walter Lang
She was one of the most wonderful women who ever lived. I was so much in awe of her when we started shooting Swing High, Swing Low that I kept blowing my lines over and over. Then Carole started blowing hers on purpose so I wouldn't feel bad. She really took me under her wing and gave me a lot of encouragement. It didn't matter to her that she was a big star."
actress Dorothy Lamour
"She was married to [Clark] Gable at one time, you know. I met her on the street one day -- I did a whole series of shows with her -- and I said, 'How are you and Gable getting along?' and she said 'He's the lousiest lay I ever had.'...Very sexy dame. She was also a hell of an actress."
Groucho Marx
"It is always a pleasure to watch those hollow Garbo features, those neurotic elbows and bewildered hands, and her voice has the same odd beauty a street musician discovers in old iron, scraping out heartbreaking and nostalgic melodies."
Graham Greene
"One of my closest friends, and the Godmother of my son...and a lovely person, a great person."
director Walter Lang
