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Kick off with Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 31, 2013
Carole Lombard, sitting in a car, graced the December 1938 cover of Picture Play...but the ostensible reason she was aboard could be found in that little cardinal-and-gold decal in the front window. Carole supposedly was headed down to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to watch the University of Sou read more
A gal and her gelding, part 2
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 30, 2013
Last month, we showed a Paramount publicity photo of Carole Lombard with her beloved Palomino gelding, Pico (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/617993.html). Now, Carole is back with another equine image, p1202-1677, which likely was issued simultaneously with another pic, p1202-1678:As for p1202- read more
Today, the glorious Glenda
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 29, 2013
Carole Lombard made only one movie for Warners, and it was the wrong film at the wrong time. "Fools For Scandal," which began production late in 1937 as Carole was coming off the twin triumphs of "Nothing Sacred" and "True Confession" and was released in the spring of 1938, turned out to be a major read more
A Hollywood holy grail, found (sort of) via...radio
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 28, 2013
Both are on virtually everyone's list of iconic blondes, right up there with Marilyn Monroe. Like Monroe, they left us much too soon. Both were beloved in the film community, were contemporaries and became friends. But a photo of both Carole Lombard and Jean Harlow has proven tantalizingly hard to f read more
'Hollywood,' February 1935: Lombard learns life's lessons
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 27, 2013
Many outsiders might have been tempted to doubt Carole Lombard's resiliency as 1934 transitioned to 1935. While professionally, her star was rising thanks to her triumph in the previous spring's "Twentieth Century," her personal life was in a volatile state after the sudden accidental passing over t read more
Whaddya mean, 'Don't have a cow, man'?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 26, 2013
Carole Lombard begs to differ with Bart Simpson -- after all, if she didn't have the cow, she couldn't make the milk. This photo, from Paramount staffer Don English, is p1202-1660 and is from Lombard's "farmerette" era in 1937, promoting her upcoming film "True Confession," as the snipe on the rear read more
How Hollywood mourned
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 25, 2013
January 15, 1942 marked a beginning for Carole Lombard, as she kicked off a national war bond campaign with a successful sales rally in her home state of Indiana. Little did she know she would not live out the following day, as she, her mother Elizabeth Peters, and film publicist/chaperone Otto Wink read more
'To Be Or Not To Be'? Tuesday, that is the Blu-ray question
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 24, 2013
It may have been called "the picture everyone wants to see," but the claim came out of desperation more than demand. When "To Be Or Not To Be" was filming in the fall of 1941, it was yet another Ernst Lubitsch romantic comedy, albeit one with more bite. But Pearl Harbor brought World War II home to read more
1931: Fashion in the fanmags
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 23, 2013
An interesting thing happened to Carole Lombard in the months after signing with Paramount in mid-1930: She gained renown not so much for her acting -- though she made six pictures during the first half of 1931 -- but her talent in filling out the outfits the studio made her wear. The industry fan m read more
TCM, in a New York state of mind
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 22, 2013
Most Carole Lombard fans recognize this image of her and Fredric March from "Nothing Sacred." But the subject of today's entry really isn't Lombard, nor is it March; instead, look out the window, and you'll see it:Yep, it's New York, and March and Lombard's characters are shown boating around lower read more
Casually Clark and Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 21, 2013
Looks as if Carole Lombard and Clark Gable have picked a winner at the track, probably Santa Anita. We don't know much more about this photo, because this 8" x 10" is not an original. It's being sold straight up for $14.99 by going to http://www.ebay.com/itm/CLARK-GABLE-CAROLE-LOMBARD-DAY-AT-THE-RAC read more
Looking back at Capitolfest
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 20, 2013
"From Hell To Heaven," a 1933 Paramount programmer starring Carole Lombard and Jack Oakie, isn't all that well-remembered today -- but it holds a distinction, one achieved earlier this month. It was the most popular feature named on questionnaires at Capitolfest 11 (where Lombard was the featured st read more
Of Carole and...'Kong'?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 19, 2013
That's Carole Lombard, seemingly expressing fear in a film from 1933...but if recently issued reports are correct, there was a chance that '33 film might not have been "White Woman," as shown above, but......"King Kong," Fay Wray's chief cinematic claim to fame. (Actually, "Kong" was released severa read more
'Radio Mirror,' April 1939: Meet 'radio's new star'...oopsie
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 18, 2013
One of the hazards of publishing a monthly magazine, such as the many fan mags of the 1930s, is that the lag time between sending material to press and the time it hits newsstands can leave you with proverbial egg on your face. That happened to Photoplay in 1931, where it ran a story in its June iss read more
In Albany, the 'Devil's' in the details
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 17, 2013
"Up Pops The Devil" is among a slew of films Carole Lombard made for Paramount in the early months of 1931 and was released that May. Initially designed as a vehicle for studio stablemate Nancy Carroll, Lombard was assigned the lead (above, with leading man Norman Foster) after their joint success i read more
A 'Confession' via a 'Cinegram,' plus a happy 80th
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 16, 2013
If you're a fan of Carole Lombard's last Paramount movie, "True Confession," here's some news regarding a rare artifact from the film. It's from Great Britain, part of a series of pamphlet-sized magazines called "Cinegrams" that were issued in the late '30s, each devoted to a single film. Here's the read more
'Modern Screen,' 1935: Why one man loved her
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 15, 2013
Carole Lombard's effect on men was magical. It wasn't solely because of her ethereal beauty, though that certainly played a part. But there was also genuine intelligence behind those remarkable looks, an interest in people and in life, that simply left males who knew her in awe, as if she were a lar read more
Setting a pattern for vintage style
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 14, 2013
It's 1936, and Carole Lombard is renowned as one of the style queens of filmdom. The Conde Nast-owned Hollywood Pattern Co., which since 1932 had sold patterns inspired by movie stars, already had used her image on packages of previous patterns, and does it again with pattern 1366:Maybe it's me, per read more
A Lantern lights the way to Lombard
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 13, 2013
Betcha never saw Carole Lombard in a photo with Lew Ayres before; I certainly hadn't. (And yes, that description of Ayres as a "young dance orchestra soloist" is correct -- like Fred MacMurray, Ayres was a musician before becoming an actor.)This is from the April 1929 issue of Motion Picture Classic read more
'Rumba' with a 'Piccolo,' and more
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Aug 12, 2013
The other day, we alerted you to several Carole Lombard items on eBay that were available for immediate purchases. Today, we examine a few more being sold through the site's traditional auction format -- in fact, all four are from the same seller -- beginning with the photo above, Paramount p1202-78 read more