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Two 'Confessions' in the lobby
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 15, 2012
"True Confession," Carole Lombard's final film for Paramount, inspires plenty of heated debate among her fans. Many of them, and a few critics to boot, consider it one of her finest comedies; others, notably Leonard Maltin, consider it a fairly weak vehicle. But among the few things both camps might read more
Ansel comes to town, and Jean is held over
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 14, 2012
A little-known fact: Several months after Carole Lombard and William Powell honeymooned in Hawaii in mid-1931, they spent some time enjoying the winter sights of Yosemite National Park. Perhaps they saw something like this:We mention that because the photographer of the above image, someone who's be read more
Carl says goodbye
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 13, 2012
The performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell in "My Man Godfrey" would thrill anyone who owned the property, so one can understand why Carl Laemmle, Universal's longtime mogul, would crow about it. For years, Laemmle had written (or was credited with writing) a column -- called, appropriate read more
Ann and Jeff come in out of the rain
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 12, 2012
Ah, the joys of ascending on a fair ride, as the erstwhile Mrs. Ann Smith (Carole Lombard) and her new date, Jefferson (Gene Raymond), look down at the crowd gradually diminishing below them. But little do they know that science and Mother Nature are about to deposit a double whammy on them, as the read more
In bed with Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 11, 2012
Where millions of American men (and, dare I say, not a few women) would have loved to be in the spring of 1934, when this photo was taken in the oversized bed at Carole Lombard's new home on Hollywood Boulevard, designed by former film star William Haines (who, from all accounts, would have passed u read more
'Abandon'...hope
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 10, 2012
That's Carole Lombard gracing the cover of the September 1933 issue of Shadoplay, an oddly-named, short-lived publication as far as movie fan magazines were concerned (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/172571.html). Since writing the previous entry more than three years ago, I've learned a lot ab read more
Where swing became the thing
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 9, 2012
If William Powell looks a little less dapper than usual, it's because he and Carole Lombard are at a barnyard-themed party thrown by Kay Francis and her husband in September 1933, not long after Bill and Carole called it splits. The party was at the Vendome, a restaurant owned by Hollywood Reporter read more
Three new p1202 for you
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 8, 2012
Studying Carole Lombard's Paramount publicity stills, usually categorized under the p1202 label (Lombard's studio player code number), help show how she evolved over the seven-plus years she worked there. And three more of these have emerged -- and the good news for collectors of Carole memorabilia read more
Silent 'Artist'-ry
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 7, 2012
The 1928 Carole Lombard, in the midst of her tenure at Mack Sennett, playing the title role in the two-reeler "The Campus Vamp." It's no secret Lombard learned a lot about comedic timing as part of Sennett's troupe, but it's hard to get a grip on what kind of career she would have had if talking fil read more
From trash to treasure
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 6, 2012
On the same Paramount lot where Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray were photographed on a giant swing for the 1937 film "Swing High, Swing Low," someone 20 years ago literally found Lombard treasure in the trash. Specifically, that person found this:It's a big find, both literally -- the gelatin port read more
Looking back: February 1933
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 5, 2012
In February 1933, Carole Lombard was as well-known for her wardrobe sense as for her acting, and to her that may have seemed like a backhanded compliment. Take this outfit, which was described in the Feb. 12 Billings (Mont.) Gazette:Several times that month, Carole was featured in tandem with other read more
1932, redux: Hurrah for a returned 'Heyday'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 4, 2012
A few days ago, I happily noted that a wonderful (and semi-competing) site for Carole Lombard information, http://carolelombard.org, was active again. Now there's more good news for folks fascinated by classic Hollywood during Lombard's time, the return of a site that I've written about before (http read more
Stand for your oats!
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 3, 2012
A fan supposedly took this mid-thirties photo of Carole Lombard at the Hollywood Sardi's, the relatively short-lived West Coast branch of the famed New York theater district restaurant. We have no idea what Lombard had there that day, but chances are it probably wasn't this:Yep, Quaker Oats, in the read more
90 years since the murder that haunts Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 2, 2012
Jane Alice Peters, the future Carole Lombard, hadn't yet reached her teens when she appeared with Monte Blue in the long-lost film "A Perfect Crime" in early 1921. (Note a copy of the Saturday Evening Post on the floor; the film was based on a story that ran in the magazine. Was it early product pla read more
Well, look who's back!
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 1, 2012
Sometimes, you get so wrapped up in things that you miss something right under your nose. Such is the case on my part, because I want to extend a hearty salute (just as Carole Lombard herself is doing) to the return of a site many have been wondering "whatever happened to" lo these many months.I'm r read more
In full, and for free
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 31, 2012
Reporter Carole Lombard phones in a story in a scene from the 1929 Pathe newspaper drama "Big News" -- however, that's not a publicity photo from the studio, but an actual screen grab."Big News," the rarest of Lombard's three all-talking features for Pathe, can now be found at YouTube:It's a bit cre read more
75 years ago, Harlow wows Washington
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 30, 2012
One benefit of being a movie star that's denied to mere mortals is there's a good chance you'll be able to meet the president of the United States. Carole Lombard had that opportunity on Dec. 29, 1940, not only meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House but witnessing FDR deliver one of his mo read more
Welcome medicine for film folk
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 29, 2012
I'm sure that somewhere Carole Lombard, who played a nurse in "Vigil In The Night" and spent her share of time in hospitals recuperating from a variety of maladies despite her generally active, athletic lifestyle, is pleased to hear the following bit of news: The Motion Picture & Television Fund nur read more
In February, Slide those Hollywood fan mags
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 28, 2012
At times, we've discussed how the motion picture fan magazines of the 1930s played a major role in not only the career of Carole Lombard (shown on the cover of the July 1933 New Movie magazine), but just about every actor of note in the industry. Such magazines were incredibly pervasive during this read more
Tally adds two to the p1202 army
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 27, 2012
That army, of course, refers to the photographic portraits taken of Carole Lombard during her seven-plus years at Paramount Pictures. We've snared several hundred over the years (out of more than 1,700 the studio apparently released), and now we have two more, thanks to Carole collector Tally Haugen read more