TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Carole Lombard.
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Birthdate: October 6, 1908
Death date: January 16, 1942
Carole Lombard
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
No Reviews
11
1930s
3.3288
37
1940s
2.7038
6
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.9058
2.9058
Carole Lombard Movie Rankings
1
3.1971In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. ...more about To Be or Not to Be
DVD from $8.68
(13 sellers)
2
3.0592Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is able to build a successful career. ...more about Twentieth Century
DVD from $3.95
(10 sellers)
3
3.0063In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. ...more about My Man Godfrey
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $9.98
(9 sellers)
4
2.9661
Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer completely honestly. ...more about Mr. & Mrs. Smith
DVD from $4.74
(16 sellers)
5
2.8735
To redeem himself after a hoax, reporter Wallace Cook proposes a series of stories on doomed Hazel Flagg. Hazel discovers she really doesn't have radium poisoning, but still accepts the big fling in New York that Cook offers her. ...more about Nothing Sacred
DVD from $5.14
(5 sellers)
6
2.6099
In New York city, Ruth Rogan is convicted of killing 3 of her lovers and sentenced to be executed. Meanwhile, lovely Roma Courtenay becomes a millionaire heiress when her brother dies. ...more about Supernatural
- Not Available on DVD
7
2.5661
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy. ...more about Eagle and the Hawk
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.5113
Young freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. ...more about Now and Forever
DVD from $5.70
(14 sellers)
9
2.4382
Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne looses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly equipped country hospital. There she falls in love with Dr. ...more about Vigil in the Night
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.4291
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle. ...more about Man of the World
DVD from $16.37
(10 sellers)
11
2.3439
Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with the help of singing sailor Stephen Jones. ...more about We're Not Dressing
DVD from $16.37
(11 sellers)
12
2.3104
Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore 'Ted' Drew III. ...more about Hands Across the Table
DVD from $16.37
(10 sellers)
13
2.2876
While out riding in the country, wealthy New Yorker Alec Walker meets young widow Julie Eden, and a relationship quickly develops. ...more about In Name Only
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.1825
Young lawyer meets and marries girl after knowing her one day. Takes bride home to meet his mother who disapproves of the marriage. Lawyer thinks everything will be fine as he moves up the ladder of the law firm. He doesn't and things get tough. ...more about Made for Each Other
DVD from $2.95
(9 sellers)
15
2.1415
Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. The two get married after Lombard wins a coin flip and they move back to the city. ...more about No Man of Her Own
- Not Available on DVD
16
The Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter) carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and carefree miner. ...more about Arizona Kid
- Not Available on DVD
18
This is the story of an egotistical nightclub dance performer named Raoul, his determination to succeed at all costs, and the only woman in his life that truly matters to him, a dancing partner named Helen. ...more about Bolero
- Not Available on DVD
24
Rene is broke and Kay is a rich actress visiting Paris. They meet, share a cab and dinner. He is smitten by her, but she leaves for London and he follows. At her house, when he cooks the dessert, the chef quits and he takes the job, unbeknownst to Kay. ...more about Fools for Scandal
- Not Available on DVD
26
Gangster Shoots Magiz is the producer of the show in which Mary is appearing. She marries him even though she can't stand a thing about him, knowing that in his business he may not be around for long. She's right. A series of loves and deaths ensues. ...more about Gay Bride
- Not Available on DVD
29
A small busload of passengers, which includes an escaped female convict and the lawman who has re-captured her, gets stuck in a heavy snowfall. ...more about High Voltage
- Not Available on DVD
31
A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's wife, they agree to divorce and she returns back east to her family. ...more about I Take This Woman
- Not Available on DVD
32
To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. ...more about It Pays to Advertise
- Not Available on DVD
33
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society. ...more about Ladies' Man
- Not Available on DVD
34
Fan dancer Alabam Lee is convicted of breaching the morals code with her racy shows. Her agent has her adopt a "mother" from an old ladies home as a publicity ploy to improve her image. ...more about Lady by Choice
- Not Available on DVD
43
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. ...more about Princess Comes Across
DVD from $16.37
(10 sellers)
48
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer. ...more about Sinners in the Sun
- Not Available on DVD
49
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. ...more about Swing High
- Not Available on DVD
50
Tony (Charles Laughton), a successful but illiterate middle-aged grape farmer, sends the photograph of his handsome young foreman, Joe (William Gargan), instead of his own, hoping to woo and marry Amy (Carole Lombard), a waitress in a San Francisco ...more about They Knew What They Wanted
- Not Available on DVD
51
Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when her employer is found dead, all the (circumstantial) evidence points at her. ...more about True Confession
DVD from $16.37
(10 sellers)
52
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. ...more about Up Pops the Devil
- Not Available on DVD
54
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. ...more about White Woman
- Not Available on DVD
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