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Your guide to Carole Lombard 'SUTS' day
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 10, 2014
Today, Turner Classic Movies' Summer Under The Stars torch is passed from William Powell to his one-time wife, Carole Lombard, the third time she's been a SUTS honoree. Here is the schedule, along with my comments on each film (since the card is nearly similar to what TCM ran in 2011, I'm largely re read more
Your guide to William Powell 'SUTS' day
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 9, 2014
Today opens a special weekend for many Turner Classic Movies fans, as Carole Lombard and her first husband, William Powell, each are honored on TCM's beloved August extravaganza, "Summer Under The Stars." We're going to list the films scheduled on both days, with information and comments.Powell, who read more
Some Carole from the 1920s
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 8, 2014
Above is an attractive photo of the young Carole Lombard I believe I've never seen before, from the November 1928 issue of the Spanish-language fan magazine Cine-Mundial. A perusal of the Media History Digital Library today revealed yet more goodies from the 1920s...specifically 1925. We'll begin wi read more
'The Circle,' behind the scenes
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 7, 2014
For our latest foray into Carole Lombard material in the Media History Digital Library, let's look at Broadcasting magazine, which had a very intriguing brief in its Dec. 15, 1938 issue:So the original plan by Kellogg's was to build the show around Lombard -- but as we all know regarding Hollywood, read more
From the final photo shoot?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 6, 2014
According to the seller of this photo, this is from Carole Lombard's final portrait session, which took place on Dec. 31, 1941. If true, it would mean the image here was taken by Robert Coburn, probably best known for his work with Rita Hayworth at Columbia.No matter when or where this portrait was read more
This weekend, William will be Rome-in'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 5, 2014
William Powell and Carole Lombard wave bon voyage as they set sail on their honeymoon to Hawaii in June 1931. This weekend, the one-time husband and wife have two more things linking them.First, both will be part of Turner Classic Movies' Summer Under The Stars -- Powell for the first time on Saturd read more
Here's a grand portrait of Carole...six grand, in fact
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 4, 2014
William E. Thomas is best known today for his rather racy photographs of Carole (or, as she was known at Pathe at the time, Carol) Lombard in the late 1920s...but he had the skill to take portraits of her that reflected entirely different moods, such as bridal-themed pictures or those, such as this, read more
Celebrities in a cemetery in the day, a rainy Ravine at night
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 3, 2014
Carole Lombard gives young Jackie Cooper support as he races down a Paramount street against Groucho and Harpo Marx in 1933. But look to the top of the photo, to that wall at the end of the street. On the other side is a place whose history is every bit as colorful as its cinematic neighbor (in fact read more
Indeed, a 'rarely-seen pose'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 2, 2014
I had a delightful time this morning, taking the Hollywood Forever cemetery tour conducted by Karie Bible -- 2 1/2 hours of informative fun, well worth the $15. More on that tomorrow, but for now, a picture of Carole Lombard I've never seen before. The seller labels it a "rarely-seen pose," a claim read more
Uploading more of the spice of life ('Variety,' natch)
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 1, 2014
Good news as we enter August -- my desktop computer again is fully functional, giving me plenty more leeway to post Carole Lombard pics such as the one above, the rarely seen Paramount p1202-1499. And this couldn't have come at a better time, because the Media History Digital Library has uploaded ye read more
The 'Stars' come out tomorrow!
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 31, 2014
Turner Classic Movies begins its always-welcome Summer Under The Stars promotion tomorrow, and above are two of this year's honorees -- William Powell on the 9th, and ex-wife Carole Lombard on the 10th. Quite a few other Carole contemporaries will have SUTS days. They include David Niven (Aug. 2 -- read more
It's time for...yet another year of Vin (hooray!)
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 30, 2014
(We make one of our occasional visits to Hollywood heaven, where last night Carole Lombard was sitting in front of her big-screen TV -- and up there, "big" means nine feet high and 20 feet wide -- when Clark Gable enters the room and sits next to her.)Clark: Whatcha got on?Carole: The Dodger game. B read more
Hollywood's neglected towering beauty
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 29, 2014
Hollywood -- both in the literal and figurative sense -- was in Carole Lombard's soul. Most of her films were made at studios which then called Hollywood home (Paramount, Columbia and RKO), she was one of the few stars who actually lived in Hollywood Boulevard (the above photo was taken in that hous read more
Sliding at the party
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 28, 2014
Carole Lombard's party at the Venice pier amusement park in June 1935 (she's shown with Frances Drake and Josephine Hutchinson) has become the stuff of legend. It received substantial coverage from the press of the time, such as this report in Florida's St. Petersburg Evening Independent......not to read more
Soon, we'll be 'Under The Stars'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 27, 2014
OK, so many of you can't read the copy above unless you're fluent in Spanish, but forget the words and focus on Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray and John Barrymore, the three stars of "True Confession." Two weeks from today, Turner Classic Movies will air that 1937 comedy for the first time as part of read more
Homeward bound...to my new home
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 26, 2014
This photo of Jane Alice Peters (the future Carole Lombard) and her mother and brothers was taken in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1911; three years later, the four of them would be headed to Los Angeles. Today, I am finally doing likewise.The moving vans have picked up what I am transporting from Charlottes read more
A silent comparison in Britain: Chaplin vs. Lloyd
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 25, 2014
It's July 1925, and 16-year-old Carole Lombard is a Fox contract player, fresh off being Edmund Lowe's leading lady in "Marriage In Transit." (It's unclear whether it can be called a success; the film is lost, and years later Lombard disparaged her performance.) Regardless, Carole was of relative in read more
You better 'Run, Girl, Run' for this Sennett collection
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 24, 2014
Carole Lombard had made movies before coming to work for Mack Sennett in the fall of 1927, but it was Sennett who ignited the comedy spark in Carole that finally caused a figurative fire in Hollywood several years later.While only a handful of Lombard's short films for Sennett, such as "Run, Girl, R read more
Always good to please your agent
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 23, 2014
Carole Lombard was sufficiently savvy as a businesswoman to know the benefits of being on good terms with your agent. Unlike Lombard, I've never had need for one, but perhaps now that I'm on the verge of completing my move to Los Angeles (the mover took my stuff today, I'll dispose of leftover items read more
Could Woody's latest have used Carole's 'Magic'?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 22, 2014
There's Carole Lombard with John Barrymore, both under the watchful eye of director Howard Hawks in "Twentieth Century." We bring this up because Lombard and Barrymore were cited in a review of the latest film from a director who perhaps admires classic Hollywood style more than any of his contempor read more