Weird coincidences.....

I saw this film last night 8/28, part of the all day Carole Lombard tribute on TCM.

May be coincidences but some weird points in the story paralleled the last hours of Carole's life....as told by Warren Harris' 1974 bio GABLE AND LOMBARD.
According to the book, Carole's mother was into numerology and was worried about the number of passengers on the ill-fated flight, Carole's age (and I believe she'd been warned not to travel by air in the year 1942). In the film, Carole's co-worker Nona (Marie Prevost) is into numerology.

When Regie, Lombard's character, first meets Allen Macklyn in a wheelchair, Ralph Bellamy's character, he tells her that he's a pilot, a shot of an airplane followed by him telling her that airplanes weren't as safe then as they are now.

According to the book, Lombard's mother and another companion didn't want to fly, Lombard wanted to get back to Gable faster and the planned train ride would take too long. In order to settle the dispute, they flip a coin. The film ends with Regie and Theodore (Fred MacMurray's character) flipping a coin.



Sadly interesting.