Which actress did director Mitchel Leisen call "The Profane Angel"?

They admired Lombard's beauty, spunky personality and skill at playing madcap roles in screwball comedies and swooned over her marriage to megastar Clark Gable. “We called her the Profane Angel because she looked like an angel but she swore like a sailor. She was the only woman I ever knew who could tell a dirty story without losing her femininity.” — Mitchell Leisen, on Carole Lombard. She used swearing as a way to ward off unwanted advances from men.

Her life started in Ft. Wayne, IN. Born Jane Alice Peters, she grew up a free-spirited tomboy in a well-to-do family that relocated from the Midwest to California. As an actress, she became known for a winning personality that made her popular with movie personnel from blue-collar workers to big-deal directors.

Critics liked to praise what they called Lombard's "grinning infectiousness". But she was still called "The Profane Angel" for her ability to swear like a stevedore.

Perhaps her greatest role was in "My Man Godfrey" (1936). She played the zany heiress Irene Bullock. This film is credited as the first of the "screwball" type of comedies. Gehring wrote these films to showcase a domineering eccentric woman (Lombard) in a romantically skewered story.

Lombard was killed in a plane crash. She was flying to California when all aboard the crash were killed. Her last film, the anti-Nazi comic thriller "To Be or Not to Be", in which she starred with Jack Benny, was released in February 1942, a month after her death.