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Making this a (blogathon) banner day
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 9, 2014
We're going to keep reminding you about "The Romantic Comedy Blogathon," now less three months away, through banners such as Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray in 1936's "The Princess Comes Across." And many of you in the blogosphere have already "come across" through your proposed entries. Here's wh read more
Cleaning another part of the estate
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 8, 2014
This elegant photo by Robert Coburn was among the last portraits ever taken of Carole Lombard, near the close of 1941. Only weeks later, she was the victim of an air crash, and it was left for husband Clark Gable to settle matters of her estate.A few days ago, we did an entry on a document Gable sig read more
50 years after an invasion
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 7, 2014
Carole Lombard didn't fancy herself much of a singer, but that doesn't mean she didn't like music. Her romantic relationship with Russ Columbo was at least partly based on music, and she not only made a film with Bing Crosby ("We're Not Dressing"), but owned many of his records as well. A famous Lom read more
Paid in full
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 6, 2014
Carole Lombard is shown dining in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1942, two days before her death that stunned Hollywood and a nation. But while her sudden passing left Clark Gable with deep grief, another, more mundane effect was that bills she would have paid through her considerable bank account now had to b read more
Reliving Lombard the librarian
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 5, 2014
One of the jobs Carole Lombard held on screen was as a small-town librarian in the 1932 Paramount release "No Man Of Her Own." (Keep in mind that if Carole had actually held such a position 82 years ago, she wouldn't have needed a degree in library science, as few if any colleges offered such majors read more
A co-host is found on the 'Backlots'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 4, 2014
You may have heard that I am planning to host something called "The Romantic Comedy Blogathon" from May 1 to 4, focusing on the genre of romantic or screwball comedy (such as "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," above, with Carole Lombard playing the Mrs. and Robert Montgomery the Mr.). Well, as it turns out, I was read more
A soap in the Sunday funnies, with 'Virtue" to boot
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 3, 2014
Carole Lombard was among a number of Hollywood luminaries who regularly promoted Lux soap -- not just when appearing on the popular "Lux Radio Theater," but in magazine and newspaper ads. And those stars appeared just about everywhere; you could not escape them, even if you sought refuge in the Sund read more
Let's blogathon again, for the third time around
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 2, 2014
First, there was "Carole-tennial(+3)!" for Carole Lombard on October 2011, then there was "The Great Silent Recasting" last November. Now "Carole & Co." is returning to the blogathon business, this time using a topic that's considerably more generalized than either of the previous events. Ladies and read more
Playing 'tag' in Culver City?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 1, 2014
For someone who made all of one film at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Carole Lombard certainly spent a lot of time there -- much of that, of course, due to the presence of her future (and eventual) second husband, Clark Gable. (The photo above was from their first anniversary at Clark's dressing room in Marc read more
TCM documents Oscar's 85 years
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 31, 2014
The closest Carole Lombard ever came to claiming an Academy Award occurred in 1936, when she was nominated for best actress; co-star William Powell was nominated for the second time in three years, but failed to win (which he also failed to do in 1947 for "Life With Father." The same fate befell Mi read more
Covering Carole in a continental manner
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 30, 2014
As we've previously seen, Carole Lombard was a popular magazine cover subject not only in North America, but in Europe, too. As proof, here she is gracing a 1938 issue of the Czechoslovakian publication Kinorevue, a magazine that continued into at least 1939 despite Germany's annexation of the count read more
Looking back: January 1934
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 29, 2014
Carole Lombard was close to finishing "Bolero" when 1933 concluded (she and George Raft here get instructions from Paramount choreographer Leroy Prinz), little knowing come midnight on New Year's Eve that 1934 would be the most tumultuous year of her life to date, filled with both the heights of pro read more
Call it the 'Loretta-tennial(+1)!' this Thursday
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 28, 2014
Some of you may recall the initial blogathon hosted by "Carole & Co.", coinciding with the 103rd anniversary of Carole Lombard's birth in October 2011, so we called it the "Carole-tennial(+3)!" We're borrowing the "-tennial" part of that term to alert you to an upcoming salute to another Hollywood l read more
The bride is back
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 27, 2014
We've run this Carole Lombard bridal picture from her Pathe days before (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/555643.html) -- specifically, it's Pathe CL-112 -- but it's now on the market again, complete with snipe to let you know it's vintage:It's from the spring of 1929, and I'm guessing the Rober read more
Busy, or chic, as a beaver
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 26, 2014
Real fur never fell out of favor during Carole Lombard's lifetime (although she was a renowned animal lover), so it shouldn't be a surprise to see her in this outfit for a photo issued in late 1934 to promote her upcoming Paramount film "Rumba." We learn what type of fur it is from the back of this read more
'Liberty,' Nov. 14, 1936: Is Carole Lombard in love at last?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 25, 2014
In November 1936, about the time Carole Lombard entered the Los Angeles Hall of Records to officially change her name from Jane Alice Peters, Bernarr Macfadden's Liberty magazine ran a story about her, focusing not so much on her career as an actress but her personal -- heck, romantic -- life.We ran read more
Having a heat wave? So what -- LA's on ice!
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 24, 2014
A question: If Carole Lombard were alive today, would she be a sports fan? (By "alive," I mean being around in 2014 at roughly the same age she was in her prime, in other words born sometime during the 1980s. The Lombard born in 1908 would be 105 today, and even her incredible energy probably would read more
Time to engage in some 'Shadoplay'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 23, 2014
Shadoplay, the budget subsidiary to the far more successful Photoplay, wasn't too much longer for this world when Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper graced the cover of its September 1934 issue. The magazine ended its run the following year, having made little impact either editorially or on the newssta read more
Hurrell returns to Laguna, thanks to his biographer
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 22, 2014
The man who took that portrait of Carole Lombard was George Hurrell, whose iconic photography continues influencing style more than eight decades after he began working with Hollywood legends. And if you're in southern California, tomorrow night in Laguna Beach you can meet his biographer, learn mor read more
'Film Pictorial' annual, 1937: Learning a secret of loveliness
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 21, 2014
We fast-forward our look at Carole Lombard in annuals from the British magazine Film Pictorial to 1937, by which time she'd progressed to full-fledged worldwide stardom. But she remained a symbol of Hollywood at its most fashionable and as such was a sought-after style authority. More samples of tha read more