The couple NEVER spent their wedding night in Oatman. They did buy a round of drinks for the house at Andy Devine's saloon in Kingman, but then drove straight back to Los Angeles, arriving in the early morning hours of March 30th. I have this information from the best possible source: my late friend Jean Garceau, who worked for both Carole and Clark as what would be called an Executive Assistant now, starting for Carole in the mid-1930s (Carole hired Jean away from Lombard's agent, Myron Selznick). When Carole and Clark married in 1939, Jean took on secretarial duties for both of them, and after Carole's death, she continued on with Clark in the same capacity until about one year before Clark passed away. Kathleen decided she wanted to bring in her own staff, so Jean was "encouraged" to retire.

The Oatman "honeymoon" stories are sheer nonsense, and they ought to be horsewhipped for perpetuating a fraud. The pink nightgown and alleged wedding dress displayed in the "honeymoon" room are not authentic. Carole never wore pink around Clark (much less a nightgown!) - he loathed that color - and she was married in a dove-gray suit with a gray-and-white polkadot ascot; the ensemble was designed by her friend Irene. The only real place Carole & Clark stopped (other than the saloon) was a restaurant just across the California state line, where the party had dinner.

Carole Sampeck
The Carole Lombard Archive
Jean Garceau Collection