The last song Russ Columbo ever sang and recorded was Two Lovers by Allie Wrubel and Mort Dixon:Īnd as he takes her little trembling hand,Ĭarole Lombard and Russ, notice what finger the ring is on? The flowers that were laid on her burial casket were identical to the ones she had laid on Russ Columbo’s and the large heart shaped wreath display she had sent to the funeral she had arranged signed with his pet name for her, Angel.īing Crosby and Carole Lombard’s brother, Fred Peters, were pallbearers at Russ Columbo’s funeral.

When Carole Lombard made her last will and testament, the first instruction she wrote down was her desire to be interred in a modest crypt at the same cemetery which is not in Hollywood, dressed wearing her favorite white gown. When he did his family decided he would be placed in the vault opposite his brother Fiore’s, at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. Russ Columbo had had a premonition that he too would die young. Original source: Courting Danger by Alice Marble. And she in turn had encouraged him to consider a career singing opera.Ĭarole Lombard knew she would die young. When she told her friend Alice Marble, the tennis-pro replied, “Did the fortune-tellers tell you that?” He had been the one, after all, who gave her voice lessons early on in their romance. If Russ were alive how proud he would have been of her standing there singing her heart out, leading the audience, encouraging them to buy war bonds. When she enthusiastically sang the National Anthem on January 15th she must have thought of him. Yesterday, January 14th, was Russ’s birthday.

Thus, to keep the heartbreaking news from her, Carole wrote weekly letters full of gay chit-chat and news of their activities, which were supposedly postmarked London and read to the blind mother.” Hollywood Magazine.īoth Russ Columbo and Carole Lombard died young. It is a sad twist of fate that they both had premonitions that they would do so. In the course of her romance with Russ, Carole naturally had grown close to Mrs. Columbo was told he was in London, making movie pictures with Carole. “To account for her son’s prolonged absence, Mrs. By Beverly Adam (author of Two Lovers: the love story of Carole Lombard and Russ Columbo)Ĭarole Lombard’s unexpected death, as in life, was connected in the press to Russ Columbo’s.

Two Lovers by Beverly Adam