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Confession -- Carole's indirectly inspired a font. Is it your type?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 22, 2018
Yes, Carole Lombard, I'm as surprised by the news as you are -- but while "True Confession" may have a mixed legacy, her final Paramount film lives on...in print, though you won't find it used on any typewriter."What is he talking about?", you wonder. Well, check the opening title card to that 1937 read more
A Profile of a 'Scandal'-ous dress
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 21, 2018
In the baseball parlance of Carole Lombard's tomboy childhood, she was a hot hitter at the close of 1937. After her home run in "My Man Godfrey" (above) the previous year, Lombard bashed some doubles and triples with "Swing High, Swing Low" (Paramount's biggest money-maker for all of '37), "Nothing read more
A different angle on Lombard
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 15, 2018
This luscious photo of Carole Lombard wearing a nightgown, looking oh so seductive, ran in the New York Sunday News and other publications in 1941. But it's not the only shot of her from that session. Witness:More proof Carole looked good from nearly every angle.Those and other Lombard images -- 25 read more
Hope to pick a Flower at Figueroa? Preparing for Los Angeles 3.0
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 14, 2018
This photo of Jane Alice Peters, the future Carole Lombard, on the beach with brothers Stuart and Frederic is believed to be from 1916, a year or two after Elizabeth Peters brought her three children west from Fort Wayne, Ind. I have no idea what they were specifically taught in the city's public sc read more
book: From Afar: A Science Fiction Mystery (1946) by John Russell Fearn
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 12, 2018
I remember John Russell Fearn from my younger days (cough, wheeze) as being a somewhat mediocre science fiction writer — rather in the mold of Charles Eric Maine but, in my youthful opinion, not as good. It was only quite recently that I discovered he also wrote quite a number of mysteries an read more
Her parting gift to a nation at war
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 10, 2018
Carole Lombard's yeoman work in Indianapolis on Jan. 15, 1942 paid off in a big way -- and the national press reported it the next day. Witness this from United Press, in newspapers Jan. 16 (I'm not certain where this one is from):Carole's fundraising enabled the American military to have money for read more
The Phantom Creeps (1939, Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 10, 2018
For the first few chapters, Bela Lugosi can carry The Phantom Creeps. He’s hamming it up as a mad scientist surrounded by actors who can’t even ham. Creeps has some truly terrible performances, particularly from its other leads, Robert Kent and Dorothy Arnold. He’s the military intelligence officer read more
The Phantom Creeps (1939, Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind), Chapter 12: To Destroy the World
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 9, 2018
Sadly, there’s not much world destroying in To Destroy the World. Not even when Bela Lugosi, finally reunited with his meteorite and able to escape, decides instead he’s going to steal a biplane and bomb things. Starting with the federal building. Only he drops a bomb on a zeppelin, which does inde read more
The Phantom Creeps (1939, Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind), Chapter 11: The Blast
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 8, 2018
The Blast features some of Phantom Creeps’s most prevalent tropes. Good guys following bad guys because they happened to drive and pass one another. Jack C. Smith’s henchman (to Bela Lugosi’s mad scientist) getting shot and dazed. Smith’s been shot at least three times (and dazed) in the serial. read more
The Phantom Creeps (1939, Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind), Chapter 10: Phantom Footprints
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 7, 2018
The title, Phantom Footprints, could almost refer to when a spy–seeing invisible Bela Lugosi’s shadow–thinks there might be something there. But then another spy just tells the first spy to shut up about it. It happens twice, first with Anthony Averill saying it’s stupid, then (after Averill read more
Outfitted for a 'Brief Moment'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 7, 2018
Is "Brief Moment" the most overlooked of Carole Lombard's five films for Columbia? You could make a good case for that. It doesn't have the pre-Code dynamite of "Virtue" nor the occasional comic Carole forays of "No More Orchids." Her last for the studio, "Lady By Choice," gives her some splendid in read more
The Phantom Creeps (1939, Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind), Chapter 9: Speeding Doom
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 6, 2018
Speeding Doom once again has the good guys, bad guys, and Bela Lugosi trying to get Lugosi’s box. In the box is a powerful meteorite, which allows for all of Lugosi’s inventions. But the good guys and bad guys don’t know about it yet. They still aren’t sure Lugosi’s alive. Until the bad guys read more
Just A Quick Update
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on May 5, 2018
Because of scheduling and other issues, the Durnmoose Movies blog will be taking just a short break. Regular posting will resume May 15th. read more
The Phantom Creeps (1939, Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind), Chapter 8: Trapped in the Flames
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 5, 2018
Trapped in the Flames is yet another exciting installment of The Phantom Creeps. Yet again, the Feds (led by Robert Kent) pursue the foreign agents (Anthony Averill’s the chief henchman, Edward Van Sloan’s the boss) trying to find Bela Lugosi’s missing box. No one but Lugosi (presumed dead by read more
The Phantom Creeps (1939, Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind), Chapter 7: The Menacing Mist
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 3, 2018
The Menacing Mist is endless. It starts with Bela Lugosi trying to kill Robert Kent with his remote control robot, but then he has to deal with some insurrection from lackey Jack C. Smith. Kent’s just doing action, so at least he’s not doing bad acting. Smith, on the other hand, is doing some bad read more
A comedy with Carole and Cary? Could it have been?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 2, 2018
They are the actress and actor most associated with the beloved genre of screwball comedy (apologies to others, such as Claudette Colbert and William Powell), but how many screwballs starred Carole Lombard and Cary Grant? The answer...zero.Had it not been for Lombard's premature passing, she and Gra read more
The Phantom Creeps (1939, Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind), Chapter 6: The Iron Monster
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 1, 2018
Phantom Creeps hits the halfway point with some intrigue involving one of the cast possibly being a double agent (fingers crossed as it’d give the plot something engaging) and Bela Lugosi getting a new weapon, a kind of ray gun. The ray gun doesn’t get much usage after the demonstration because read more
Carole, Gwen and a one-year wonder
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 30, 2018
This 1930 photo shows Carole Lombard with someone who would gain renown in costume design, although these days she's not as well remembered as Edith Head, Irene or Adrian -- Gwen Wakeling (1901-1982). While Wakeling never designed for a Lombard film, she frequently worked with Cecil B. DeMille. Lomb read more
The Phantom Creeps (1939, Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind), Chapter 5: Thundering Rails
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 30, 2018
Thundering Rails is mostly vehicular action. It starts with Robert Kent and Dorothy Arnold trying to land a damaged plane while dropping hand grenades on the foreign spies (being careful not to hurt good guys Regis Toomey and Edwin Stanley). Then there’s a bunch of car chases. The cliffhanger–which read more
1968 Fest – Making A Monkey Out Of Charlton Heston – Planet Of The Apes (1968)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Apr 30, 2018
I find it hard to believe that in all the time that I’ve been writing this blog I’ve not written about one of my all-time favorite movies.Fortunately this 1968-fest gives me a chance to rectify that. I can’t remember how young I was when I first saw Planet of the Apes. One of the g read more