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Lombard made her film debut at the age of twelve after she was seen playing baseball in the street by director Allan Dwan ; he cast her as a tomboy in A Perfect Crime ( 1921 ).

In the 1920s, she worked in several low-budget productions credited as Jane Peters, and later as Carol Lombard.

Her friend Miriam Cooper helped Lombard land small roles in her husband Raoul Walsh's films.

In 1925, she was signed as a contract player with Fox Film Corporation ( which merged with Daryl Zanuck's Twentieth Century Productions in 1935 ).

She also worked for Pathé Exchange and appeared as one of Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties in 1928.

She appears in the title role in Sennet's comedy The Campus Vamp that year.

She made a smooth transition to sound films, starting with High Voltage ( 1929 ).

In 1930, she won a contract with Paramount Pictures after having been dropped by both 20th Century and Pathé Exchange.