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Brighten the refrigerator where you are
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 26, 2020
We're all spending more time around our refrigerators these days, if not entirely of our own volition. So why not make it more aesthetically pleasing?Carole Lombard can help. This Nickolas Muray color portrait of hers has been reproduced as a refrigerator magnet measuring 2 1/2"x 3 1/2", and you can read more
Our generation's female 'Bellamy'?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 25, 2020
It's near impossible not to feel sorry for Ralph Bellamy, who in so many Golden Age romantic comedies -- such as in "Hands Across The Table" with Carole Lombard -- was cast as the "third wheel," the well-meaning but bland guy who never gets the girl. In "Hands," he loses the affection of Lombard's m read more
A new pic I know little about
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 24, 2020
Wish I had more information about this Carole Lombard portrait. I don't know when it was taken, what studio it's from, who took it, and so on. (The back of the photo is blank.) Anyone hazard to guess?Here's what I do know: It's 8" x 10", not an original (it apparently dates from the 1950s, according read more
Bill and Carole go west, costumed...but who's with them?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 23, 2020
As actors, Carole Lombard and William Powell knew the power of costumes, and took advantage of it at parties, both while married and afterwards. Take this pic of them above at a Kay Francis-hosted event in the fall of 1933, for instance, less than two months after their divorce. Or these photos from read more
Post-coronavirus Hollywood: Will 'normal' be back?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 22, 2020
I heard on KNX radio this morning experts predict the unemployment rate in southern California, whose formerly thriving economy was suddenly pummeled in less than two months by the coronavirus pandemic, could escalate to 31 percent before this is all through. To provide context, when the region was read more
This time, Carole gets to say 'roll 'em"
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 21, 2020
Nearly 15 months ago, we ran this photo of Carole Lombard with a new toy of hers -- a Bell & Howell movie camera -- enabling this professional film actress to take motion pictures away from the set, something most civilians now could do (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/970648.html). A slightly read more
'Big News' about a Lombard rarity
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 20, 2020
Which is the best of Carole (or as she was known then, "Carol") Lombard's three talkies for Pathe? I, and more than a few others, would cast a vote for "Big News," probably the least-seen of the three.It helps that one-time Hearst animator Gregory La Cava directs rather than the pedestrian Howard Hi read more
'Orchids' to you
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 19, 2020
"No More Orchids" may be a Columbia programmer from 1932, but Carole Lombard's second film for Harry Cohn's studio has plenty going for it -- a solid performance from Carole (including elements of the comedy queen to come), Lyle Talbot also excelling as her leading man, the always-splendid Walter Co read more
Carole, backed with Ramon
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 18, 2020
I have no idea which publication printed this sublime image of Carole Lombard, but from the reference to "Fast And Loose," I'm guessing it to be from the latter part of 1930 or early 1931.The other side of this 8" x 10" offers little help, as it's a photo of Latin heartthrob Ramon Novarro on a stair read more
A parasol, smile and swimsuit for Sennett
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 17, 2020
When Carole Lombard signed with Mack Sennett in 1927, the silent comedy impresario's overriding concern wasn't her acting ability; she'd shown she could handle the rudiments of the business during her brief stay at Fox. Nor did he worry about her inherent comic skill, which he figured he could teach read more
One legend draws on another, as 'Mom' ends early
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 16, 2020
Carole Lombard is shown in the Warners offices in Burbank after signing a contract with the studio. It's the fall of 1937, and in industry parlance, she was hot, with not one, but two hits in theaters -- Selznick International's Technicolor comedy "Nothing Sacred," and what would be her final film f read more
A (chicken) pox on Carole's house?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 15, 2020
Nearly two decades after Carole Lombard (then the 10-year-old Jane Alice Peters) lived in a world where a communicable disease ran rampant, she feared she may have caught another one. Thankfully for her, it wasn't the influenza which ravaged the globe in 1918-1919, or the covid-19 that's been recent read more
The apparent answer is Alex
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 14, 2020
Yesterday's Carole & Co. entry referred to a photo of Carole Lombard, used in a Lux promotion, up for sale in an oversized 11" x 14" form. The seller maintains its photographer was Clarence Sinclair Bull, but I had my doubts. A subsequent post from Facebook friend John Weekes may have supplied the a read more
Lombard. Lux. Bull?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 13, 2020
We've run this stunning image of Lux spokeswoman Carole Lombard before (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/760804.html), but we have no idea who took the picture. Do we now?First, the photo without the ad tag at bottom:Now, the back:Blown up, it looks like...No photographer's name listed anywhere read more
A seasonal salute to nurses: 'Vigil In The Night'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 12, 2020
Nurses have always been thanked for their service, but never more so than now, when the world relies on them and fellow medical providers through this hazardous time. It's led to a renewed appreciation of Carole Lombard's 1940 film "Vigil In The Night," where she portrays a nurse in modern-day Brita read more
The short story that inspired 'But Is It Love?'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 11, 2020
What might have been...It's a cruel irony of classic Hollywood that the actress and actor most identified with screwball comedy, Carole Lombard and Cary Grant, never made one together. (Apologies to William Powell fans, although he's won belated acclaim in recent years for his aplomb in the genre.)B read more
'Screen Play,' September 1936: To the 'magazine of romance'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 10, 2020
Screen Play, which placed Carole Lombard on its February 1935 cover (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/690603.html), remains one of the few Hollywood fan magazines from the Golden Age not to be collected and digitized by the Media History Digital Library. To be fair, it wasn't a top-tier fanmag, read more
Choose your Carole quarantine house
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 9, 2020
As we persevere through these difficult times (compounded by the weather here in Los Angeles, where it's not supposed to persistently rain on April 9), I thought it time to have some fun.A recent and frequent Internet meme, "choose your quarantine house," goes something like this: You're given sever read more
Between two ill-fated ladies
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 8, 2020
Nearly five years ago, we ran this photo of William Powell and his recent divorcee, Carole Lombard (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/790512.html). On the other side in this 1933 pic is Columbia's newly-signed operatic star, the temperamental Grace Moore, who like Lombard would die in a plane cr read more
What we can learn from how the flu altered Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 7, 2020
When Jane Alice Peters, the future Carole Lombard, made "A Perfect Crime" at age 12 with Monte Blue in early 1921 (her film debut), she likely wasn't thinking about just how much the motion picture industry -- which Jane had been a fan of from her final months in Fort Wayne in the mid-1910s -- had c read more