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Lombard and LeRoy -- oh, baby!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 6, 2020
Carole Lombard is pictured with Paramount child star Baby LeRoy on the cover of the June 1934 Screen Book. (Note LeRoy gets lead billing.) We've previously noted the meteoric career of this toddler actor (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/770525.html), and now the studio still that inspired this read more
The Carol(e)(s) remind you to stay safe
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 5, 2020
It's been slightly more than 24 hours since we first sent this image of Carole Lombard, as Irene Bullock of "My Man Godfrey" fame, wearing a mask for health reasons (and presumably to protect her beloved "protege" Godfrey, too). It's drawn a welcome response -- I like to think that somewhere, Lombar read more
Let Irene and Hazel come to your coronavirus rescue
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 4, 2020
If Irene Bullock and Hazel Flagg had somehow crossed paths in a cinematic Manhattan of the mid-1930s, what might have they said to each other, aside from "You look like someone I know quite well"? It's open for conjecture, but what isn't is that both serve a public benefit more than 80 years later.T read more
The lady picked 'By Choice'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 3, 2020
"Lady By Choice" would be the last of five films Carole Lombard made at Columbia, and the only one made after her pivotal success there with "Twentieth Century." The title implies a relation to an earlier Columbia hit, "Lady For A Day," although such ties are in name only (pardon the pun). Frank Cap read more
Mondays in April, tussle with Russell on TCM
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 2, 2020
While Carole Lombard wouldn't live to see many post-World War II stars perform on screen, during her lifetime she was aware at least two of them existed. Olympic-level swimmer Esther Williams had a screen test with Clark Gable that Carole witnessed (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/433930.html) read more
Be a good American. Come to your Census.
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 1, 2020
Meet Jane Alice Peters (right), 11, of 605 North Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles. Jane, of course, is better known as Carole Lombard, the actress name she adopted when entering the film industry in the mid-1920s (and a name she'd take for official in the fall of 1936). While I believe this was taken read more
Eat a la LA (and a la Lombard)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 31, 2020
Our world was so different when this month started, wasn't it? We could watch movies in theaters, follow our favorite sports teams on TV, go to our jobs (assuming we had one). Now, as a result of something barely visible in the U.S. on March 1, it seems so long ago.Coronavirus has isolated America, read more
More 'stylish striking' pictures
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 30, 2020
Today;s entry features some more delightful Carole Lombard photos available via eBay. Take this, for example, a heretofore unseen image of her taken at Columbia, although I can't immediately associate it with any of the five films she made there. Nor is there any information on the back. All I know read more
Carole and Shirley, 'Now And Forever'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 29, 2020
As we remain in self-isolation, let's celebrate Carole Lombard and her last surviving co-star, Shirley Temple, in their 1934 Paramount drama "Now And Forever." Within months, Temple would become a mega-star at Twentieth Century-Fox, and years later she praised Lombard for her generous personality wh read more
Shop Carole! (Here are two examples)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 28, 2020
Cooped up by coronavirus? Carole Lombard can help. According to eBay, as of this writing it has more than 5,600 Lombard-related items you can purchase from the safety of your own home. Two of them are shown in today's entry.Above is a photo of her I've never seen before. It's from Columbia Pictures, read more
Pitching a poster of Pastime
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 27, 2020
Yesterday's entry commemorated what should've been major league baseball's Opening Day with a newfound photo of Carole Lombard throwing out the first ball. The person who tracked down that pic and its snipe, David Trimboli, also found a snipe for the pic above...and here it is:Can't read it? Let's e read more
Follow through for an Opening Day that will never be
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 26, 2020
For Carole Lombard (were she here today) and fellow baseball fanatics such as myself, this should've been a happy day in North America. This was scheduled to be Opening Day in the major leagues, where all 30 teams were to begin the regular season. My beloved Washington Nationals were to begin defens read more
A sapphire satin doll
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 25, 2020
It's difficult not to think of Venus or some other goddess when seeing this Carole Lombard still, Paramount p1202-1401. (Must be that half-shell background.) We get the lowdown on this late 1936 portrait from the back:Can't read it well? Here's a larger version:To borrow a moviemaking term, that's a read more
In 2020, the TCMFF comes to you
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 24, 2020
Carole Lombard and her beloved gelding Pico grace Paramount p1202-1576, a photo I've never seen before. It's a comforting image in an uncomfortable time, one that hit home for many classic film fans earlier this month when Turner Classic Movies canceled its annual film festival slated for April, yet read more
The Apple of your i(Phone)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 23, 2020
How would a 2020 version of Carole Lombard, shown as Helen Bartlett talking on the phone in 1937's "True Confession," use today's technology? We'll never know, but if you own an Apple iPhone, you can put a Lombard spin on it.A Hong Kong company is selling three different iPhone cases with Carole the read more
Watch out -- it's 'time' for Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 22, 2020
The 1929 version of Carole Lombard looks very stylish for the time in this Pathe photo, almost certainly taken by the studio's photographer, William E. Thomas. But she's apparently missing one notable accessory...and it has to do with that word "time." Where's her watch? Perhaps Lombard is hiding it read more
'Supernatural' on Blu-ray: That's scary, kiddies (or is it?)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 21, 2020
It's no secret that "Supernatural," released in spring 1933, is a film Carole Lombard really didn't want to make. Her lone foray into horror, Carole probably feared if the film was a hit, Paramount might relegate her to that genre. And while Fay Wray was able to escape typecasting after several outi read more
This new p1202 is rather Swede
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 20, 2020
Welcome to Paramount p1202-1259, a Carole Lombard portrait I've never seen before. (I apologize for the lines on the illustration, but that's how it was presented, and you may shortly discover why.) Moreover, this pic is an original that features a studio snipe on the back:That snipe, in close-up:"T read more
'But Is It Love?' update: The script exists!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 19, 2020
When Carole Lombard stopped at Salt Lake City's train station on Jan. 13, 1942, she was probably focused on the upcoming war bond rally in Indianapolis. But in the back of her mind, she may have occasionally thought about her career, and the script she planned to film after her next picture, "He Kis read more
Immaculate, 'Invaluable' images
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 18, 2020
We all know Carole Lombard loved animals, and the above image of her canine and feline menagerie is not uncommon. However, until today, I didn't know that pic was part of her Paramount p1202 collection.Past versions I've seen cropped the bottom, so we didn't see its p1202 number (p1202-1442) or that read more