Lana turner was trying to have sex on her way to the top. She zeroed in on Clark gable. Carole Lombard on a patriotic war bond tour caught wind if it. She wanted to rush back to Hollywood and took an overloaded DC 3 back home instead of a train to get there faster . The plane crashed into Mt Pitosi outside LasVegas killing all on board including the wonderful Carole Lombard.
shareFirst of all, it was not during filming of "Honky Tonk" (1941) that Carole Lombard met her untimely death. It was later, when Lana Turner and Clark Gable were making their second film as a team, "Somewhere I'll Find You" (1942) that the plane crash happened. Secondly, how do you know that Turner was sleeping with Gable or trying to? Even if that was the case, how did that cause Lombard's death? It was a plane crash, there were other people on board. Not to mention that fidelity was not a word in Gable's vocabulary; he slept with many women throughout his marriages (remember the affair that produced his secret daughter with Loretta Young?), so blaming Turner or the film for Lombard's tragic demise is ridiculous. It has been said too, that Lombard was on the set quite often while Gable worked, she knew of his penchant for having flings with his leading ladies.
Yes, Lombard's death was a tragedy. I know that she and Gable had argued before she went on the Bond-selling tour. Gable was grief-stricken by the loss of his wife, despite his philandering. I think it's true that he never fully recovered.