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This'll get your goat...
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 31, 2013
If you could whisk yourself back in time some 74 years (or, since it's Halloween, enlist the services of a friendly witch to make it happen), you'd find the above magazine cover on newsstands on Oct. 31, 1939. It's Screen Book, showing Carole Lombard in her new "farm girl" domestic persona, complete read more
Seems we've seen that pic before...
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 30, 2013
Getting a sense of deja vu about that photo of Carole Lombard holding perfume? Well, if you were here last Thursday, it's understandable, because that image (in cropped form) was part of a page we ran from the January 1934 issue of Photoplay:In fact, that pic was the very photo used in the magazine; read more
A-spying she would go
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 29, 2013
Sometime near the end of her Paramount tenure, Carole Lombard posed for this fetching portrait, p1202-1501, where with trenchcoat and hat, she appears ready to engage in some espionage. At one point in the fall of 1935, that indeed seemed to be the case.First, let's look back a few months earlier, t read more
Once again, going Dutch
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 28, 2013
About 4 1/2 months ago, we ran some photos of Carole Lombard as she appeared in a Dutch magazine in 1936 (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/609113.html). That issue of the magazine Cinema & Theater is now available at eBay, as are three earlier issues with Lombard images...beginning with the one read more
'Dressing' at the Ritz is a Winner
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 27, 2013
"We're Not Dressing" is a fun Bing Crosby musical vehicle, but as a Carole Lombard film it shows just how interchangeable an actress Paramount perceived her to be in early 1934. Nothing in the role of haughty heiress Doris Worthington specifically calls for Carole's on-screen talents; no one really read more
Some things to 'Confess' about
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 26, 2013
If you're a fan of Carole Lombard's final Paramount film "True Confession" (which probably means you're not named Leonard Maltin; while he admires Carole and even wrote a paperback book about her nearly 40 years ago, he doesn't think much of this movie), several items of memorabilia are now availabl read more
A reminder to recast, and soon (but do it in silents)
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 25, 2013
Carole Lombard and Eddie Quillan of "Show Folks" are here to remind you that a week from today, "Carole & Co." will be host for another blogathon. Hard to believe it's not that far away.Oh, you say you hadn't heard about the event? Well, it's called... ...and it works like this: Choose a film made a read more
'Photoplay,' January 1934: Off to the 'beauty shop,' and more
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 24, 2013
Carole Lombard didn't grace the cover of Photoplay until June 1934, but the magazine hardly ignored her before then. For an example, let's go back five months, to January 1934, as Carole teamed with Gloria Stuart on the one-page feature, "Hollywood Beauty Shop":Let's focus on the inset...and Lombard read more
Lombard, looking lean
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 23, 2013
That's an interesting image of Carole Lombard, leaning back against the top of a chair. It's one of the rare photos of her with her hair pulled back, revealing far more forehead than we're used to seeing from Carole. (There's sort of a Nicole Kidman-ish vibe to this photo.)What more do we know about read more
Staging a 'Vigil' in an Arcade
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 22, 2013
"Vigil In The Night" arguably is the most challenging of Carole Lombard moviegoing experiences. The joyous, fun-loving Carole who effortlessly charmed audiences is nowhere to be found here, replaced by a no-nonsense woman whose intensity to service as a nurse is admirable, if nothing else. A well-ma read more
A contemporary (Aug. 27, 1940) 'Look' at Hurrell
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 21, 2013
Yesterday's entry dealt with legendary photographer George Hurrell, the subject of a book from Mark A. Vieira to be released next month:To get you in even more of a Hurrell mood, here's a perspective on his work -- one Lombard herself possibly read, because it comes from the Aug. 27, 1940 issue of L read more
A hooray for Hurrell, and his Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 20, 2013
Here's a Carole Lombard portrait that tends to be overlooked for some unknown reason. It was made for MGM in 1934 -- almost certainly related to the only film she made there, "The Gay Bride" -- and its photographer was someone who several years before had worked there, but was now freelancing (and h read more
'Movie And Radio Guide,' April 1940: 'Two Happy People,' part 1
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 19, 2013
It's "Carole Lombard Month," as it is just about every October, at the fine site http://dearmrgable.com/, and this month they have all sorts of charming anecdotes about Carole; it's worth checking out. The site also has an extensive article archive, and I noticed it has parts 2, 3 and 4 of a series read more
Learn the TV history of the Sennett lot
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 18, 2013
Carole Lombard poses prettily while Madalynne Fields and Daphne Pollard play a fashion version of Mutt and Jeff in this still from the Mack Sennett short "The Girl From Nowhere." What makes this distinctive was that "Nowhere" probably was Lombard's first film for Sennett at his new "somewhere" -- sp read more
Our 'Man' in Westwood: UCLA celebrates La Cava
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 17, 2013
Who's the man we don't recognize sitting alongside Carole Lombard and several other members of the "My Man Godfrey" cast? None other than its director, Gregory La Cava -- who like Lombard, William Powell, Alice Brady and Mischa Auer of that celebrated screwball comedy, was recognized with an Academy read more
Just how do you rank beauty?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 16, 2013
Yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or at least that's how the saying goes. Almost all of us would say that Carole Lombard portrait above, Paramount p1202-1119, is beautiful -- but one doesn't rate Carole's beauty within a vacuum. How does it compare with that of others?Someone tried to gauge read more
Blogathons with character
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 15, 2013
We're talkin' blogathons today, which is why we lead off with an image from 1932's "No More Orchids," Carole Lombard's second film for Columbia. I have just agreed to participate in one......and my subject will be none other but the man you see with Carole and Lyle Talbot -- Walter Connolly. The "Wh read more
'Belong'-ing to another pose
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 14, 2013
You may have seen that picture before; it's Carole Lombard in Paramount p1202-741 from 1934, promoting her upcoming film, "You Belong To Me." (As it turned out, she never made that movie, as she was switched in mid-year to another production, "Now And Forever.") Now another image of Carole in that o read more
Clark and Carole's fantastic four
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 13, 2013
Few couples could light up a room like Carole Lombard and Clark Gable...and four splendid examples of their magnetism are now up for auction at eBay. (It should be noted none are originals, but all are relatively rare.)We'll start with this stunner, as they stand near the bottom of the staircase at read more
Attending to some plaque
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Oct 12, 2013
No, Carole Lombard doesn't have a dental appointment in the hereafter (and really, one hopes that any eternal dentists' drills are reserved for the folks "down there" -- without Novocaine). The plaque we're referring to can be found in front of the house she was born in, on 704 Rockhill St. in Fort read more