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With 'Power' out, voice your choice
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 22, 2013
There's some bad news and some good news for those planning to attend Capitolfest in Rome, N.Y., on Aug. 9 to 11 (where this year's featured star is none other than Carole Lombard!). The bad news first: The festival was planning to run her 1928 silent "Power" (a still of which is seen above) at 7:20 read more
'Radio Mirror,' September 1936: 'Lux' + Hollywood = Sex (on the radio)!
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 22, 2013
That's Carole Lombard rehearsing with ailing ex-husband William Powell in May 1938 for the "Lux Radio Theater" adaptation of their hit film "My Man Godfrey." It would be Carole's debut on the series, nearly two years after "Lux" had left New York, where it had originated in 1934, for the West Coast. read more
A year more 'Modern' than originally thought
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 21, 2013
It's nice to remember every now and then that we're not infalliable. My latest lesson in learning humility comes from the Carole Lombard cover above, from Modern Screen magazine. I have seen this attractive portrait of Lombard in the past, listed as coming from its January 1931 issue (as it is by th read more
'Radio Mirror,' June 1937: What Carole Lombard taught Fred MacMurray
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 20, 2013
As we've noted in the past, radio became a substantial part of Carole Lombard's career in the late 1930s...and while she really wasn't a radio regular, she appeared on enough broadcasts to be known for her work on the air. In fact, Carole's first radio-related cover probably came in June 1937, when read more
A gal and her gelding
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 19, 2013
Many of Carole Lombard's closest friends of the mid-1930s weren't human. In addition to the many pets she kept at home, there were an array of animals at the nearby ranch she maintained. Chief among these companions was an attractive Palomino gelding named Pico. She posed for several photos with her read more
Exploitation, en espanol
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 18, 2013
Carole Lombard had long been popular with Spanish-speaking audiences, as she was a magazine cover subject for two of their magazines in 1929. (The above cover is from October 1937.) Aiding her appeal was the Hollywood publicity machine, whose work went far beyond the English language.We have proof t read more
Ooh-la-la Lombard, or Carole on the Continent
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 17, 2013
In mid-June 1930, Carole Lombard may have just signed with Paramount after making her studio debut with "Safety In Numbers," but across the Atlantic, her sultry Pathe image of the previous year or two still resonated. That was apparent when the French film magazine Cinemonde chose this seductive Wil read more
On the verge of marrying Howard, Ginger snaps
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 16, 2013
Today's entry definitely reflects the "& Co." portion of this site, because it relates to one of the filmland notables whose birth anniversary is today -- the great Ginger Rogers, born July 16, 1911, four years to the day after fellow legend Barbara Stanwyck. Also in the cast of our tale is someone read more
'No More Orchids,' 'No One Man,' two more items
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 15, 2013
Memorabilia from a pair of 1932 Carole Lombard movies -- "No More Orchids" and "No One Man" -- are up for auction at eBay.From "Orchids" (with Lyle Talbot, above left) is a pressbook...but something is odd here. "Orchids" was the second of Lombard's five Columbia films, but this hails from something read more
Clark and Carole's coupons for fowl play
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 14, 2013
Yes, Carole Lombard goes wild -- and with Clark Gable, too: The couple were in South Dakota, far from the glamour of Hollywood, to pursue pheasant in October 1941. Now a rare souvenir of their sojourn has been put up for auction at eBay -- the migratory waterfowl coupons they needed by law, signed b read more
A chance for some cheap buys
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 13, 2013
How would you like to own the book titled "Screwball" that isn't a Carole Lombard biography? (As the cover indicates, she makes frequent appearances in this coffee-table book examining the genre.) It's been out of print for some time, but it's available this weekend as part of a huge auction at the read more
'The New Movie Magazine,' September 1935: How to be very, very popular
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 12, 2013
No, this has nothing to do with the Betty Grable-Sheree North vehicle of that title some two decades later, but Carole Lombard and Paramount mate Claudette Colbert -- shown at Carole's famed Venice Pier party in June 1935 -- join three of their Hollywood cohorts (Joan Blondell, Jean Harlow and Ging read more
The lovely Lombard has a 'Confession' for 'Picturegoer'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 11, 2013
Carole Lombard had long been a favorite of British audiences, so it was no surprise that she was a frequent cover subject for the popular UK cinema magazine Picturegoer. Here she is fronting the Dec. 4, 1937 edition in glorious pseudo-color; unlike its major U.S. counterparts at the time, Picturegoe read more
It 'leaves you just satisfied'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 10, 2013
The new management at Universal knew it had a winner on its hands when Carole Lombard's latest movie, "My Man Godfrey," rolled out into theaters in September 1936. And evidently exhibitors felt likewise, as the front page of this program from the Roth Park Theater in Morristown, N.J., is indicative: read more
'Hollywood,' January 1936: A lamp post telling on the stars
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 9, 2013
In the closing months of 1935, Carole Lombard had plenty of reasons to have a Coke and a smile (to borrow one of the soda legend's many famed slogans). "Hands Across The Table" was earning raves, both for the film and her performance in it, and it appeared she'd finally turned the corner towards tru read more
Looking 'Modern' with soda and cigarettes
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 8, 2013
This image of Carole Lombard, sipping on a soda while holding a cigarette, wonderfully captures her restless energy on the cover of the May 1938 issue of Modern Screen. It's from famed artist F. Earl Christy, who produced an array of covers for fan magazines and other publications over the years (in read more
'The New Movie Magazine,' June 1935: Carole vs. Alice, on flattery
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 7, 2013
History, or at least the history that I've seen, hasn't recorded whether Carole Lombard ever met Alice Faye; they never worked at the same studio and probably were in different social circles. But in the June 1935 issue of The New Movie Magazine, they shared a page, doing an early version of "point/ read more
A pass that leads to 'Virtue'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 6, 2013
Critics had middling comments about "Virtue" when it hit theaters in the fall of 1932, but in recent years it's gained renown as perhaps Carole Lombard's best performance until she turned her career around some 18 months later with "Twentieth Century" (also filmed at Columbia).A trinket from this pr read more
A salute in silver for the boss
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 5, 2013
Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray and director Mitchell Leisen welcome a guest to the set of "Swing High, Swing Low" -- the man who approved their paychecks, if he didn't necessarily sign them. He's Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount, who at the time this picture was taken -- near the end of 1936 or in read more
For America's birthday
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jul 4, 2013
It's July 4, celebrating the birth of the country Carole Lombard truly loved. While she never got around to celebrating it through making studio publicity pictures, other Hollywood actresses did, in ways ranging from cheesy to charming. So to honor the holiday, let's run a few, beginning with Collee read more