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I hope I'm not boastful when I say that after nearly 11 years of running this site and a few prior decades of Carole Lombard, I consider myself somewhat expert on the woman, her life and her movies. Does that mean I bat 1.000? Hardly.Take the photo above, for instance. It's almost certainly a movie read more

I’m not sure what it was exactly that caught my attention during the trailer for Happy Death Day,  but something in the Groundhog Day/Scream mashup was just appealing enough that when I saw that it had hit Redbox i decided to snatch it up. Maybe it was the concept? The idea of a college girl read more

One of my all-time favorite films is 1985’s Tampopo directed by Juzo Itami and starring his wife Nobuko Miyamoto which I have written about here and here. In 1987 the pair teamed again for a new movie, A Taxing Woman. Now one might think that having taken on the task of turning the search for read more

June Allyson October 7, 1917 - July 8, 2006 Simoa of Champagne for Lunch is hosting a blogathon celebrating the life and career of June Allyson, a first-rate musical entertainer, sly comic actress, and versatile dramatic star. Click HERE to read all the contributions to the blogathon running from read more

June Allyson October 7, 1917 - July 8, 2006 Simoa of Champagne for Lunch is hosting a blogathon celebrating the life and career of June Allyson, a first-rate musical entertainer, sly comic actress, and versatile dramatic star. Click HERE to read all the contributions to the blogathon running from read more

Murder She Said Directed by George Pollock Written by David Pursall and Jack Seddon; adapted by David D. Osborn from the novel 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie 1961/UK George H. Brown Productions/Metro-Goldwyn Mayer First viewing/Amazon Instant Miss Marple: Well, we should get on admirably read more

100 years ago today, Olivia de Havilland was born. 5 years ago this past March (and in the very wee infancy of this blog), I was studying abroad in Paris and heard that the great Olivia de Havilland would be introducing a movie she had recently narrated, a documentary about Alzheimer’s calle read more

  “I can release a destructive power in a human being that would make the split atom seem like a blessing.”  If a male scientist had said that, folks would say: “He’s mad. He’s a genius. Give him some more funding!!” But let a woman say it and folks are like: “What’s her problem? read more

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki) Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita Written by Keisuke Kinoshita fram a novel by Sachio Ito 1955/Japan Shôchiku Eiga First viewing/Hulu   This is a picturesque rural romance featuring Kinoshita’s standard buckets of tears. An read more

Oof, Fridays With Yvonne De Carlo is off to a rocky start. Though never an A-list actress, De Carlo is best remembered to legions of television fans as Lily Munster in the 1960s series The Munsters which is the extent of my De Carlo knowledge. Her filmic output was scattered, with De Carlo mostly re read more

Oof, Fridays With Yvonne De Carlo is off to a rocky start. Though never an A-list actress, De Carlo is best remembered to legions of television fans as Lily Munster in the 1960s series The Munsters which is the extent of my De Carlo knowledge. Her filmic output was scattered, with De Carlo mostly re read more

This early Paramount still of Carole Lombard was taken in New York during the summer of 1930, while she was in town filming "Fast and Loose" at its Astoria, Queens studio. At about that time, a friend of hers also was filming there, like Lombard playing a key supporting role, this in the Nancy Carro read more

This early Paramount still of Carole Lombard was taken in New York during the summer of 1930, while she was in town filming "Fast and Loose" at its Astoria, Queens studio. At about that time, a friend of hers also was filming there, like Lombard playing a key supporting role, this in the Nancy Carro read more

Nearly 4 1/2 years ago, we noted that Carole Lombard never was awarded a WAMPAS "Baby Star," an honor given up-and-coming actresses in the 1920s and early 1930s, because the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers declined to give awards for 1930, citing the recent stock market crash and t read more

Nearly 4 1/2 years ago, we noted that Carole Lombard never was awarded a WAMPAS "Baby Star," an honor given up-and-coming actresses in the 1920s and early 1930s, because the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers declined to give awards for 1930, citing the recent stock market crash and t read more

Three years and three months ago, we ran an entry titled "Meet the 'man-proof' Miss Lombard" (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/506358.html), which in part described a story on Carole Lombard that ran in the August 1934 issue of True Confessions, the wildly popular magazine owned by eccentric Ber read more

Three years and three months ago, we ran an entry titled "Meet the 'man-proof' Miss Lombard" (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/506358.html), which in part described a story on Carole Lombard that ran in the August 1934 issue of True Confessions, the wildly popular magazine owned by eccentric Ber read more

...but at least this year Joan Fontaine isn't one of them.  Many happy returns on her 99th to the one and only Miss Olivia de Havilland.  I hope that she's up for a little celebration; Paris, after all, is lovely this time of year. read more

...but at least this year Joan Fontaine isn't one of them.  Many happy returns on her 99th to the one and only Miss Olivia de Havilland.  I hope that she's up for a little celebration; Paris, after all, is lovely this time of year.  As, I'm sure, is she. read more

I hadn’t written anything about Carole Lombard yet. The point is,as I am writing this, I haven’t seen many of her films . However, I’m discovering this actress with a great pleasure and enjoyed her acting in all those three films: To Be or Not to Be (my favourite, and I think it&# read more