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Lombard's most obscure what-might-have-been
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 17, 2020
It's Jan. 12, 1942, and Carole Lombard, preparing to board the "City of Los Angeles" at Union Station in LA, is pictured with Treasury Department official Howard D. Mills before heading east for her ill-fated war bond rally. But four days earlier, she had made the papers regarding a never-made proje read more
Keeping the faith in these perilous times
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 16, 2020
It was more than a century ago that Jane Alice Peters, the future Carole Lombard, avoided catching what was known as the Spanish flu. At this time last week, many of us viewed that disease as ancient history. From an American's admittedly skewed perspective, the world seemed so, well...normal. This read more
Meet the newest member of the p1202 family
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 15, 2020
It all began for Carole Lombard's series of Paramount still portraits -- the ones we know as the p1202 series -- with this 1930 stunner, p1202-1, taken in New York by Herman Zerrenner while she was filming "Fast And Loose." Carole Sampeck of The Lombard Archive describes it "as being full of hope, j read more
Quarantined by coronavirus? Try these two coffee-table books
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 14, 2020
Over the next few weeks -- perhaps months -- many of us may feel cooped up, isolated, as a result of a word few knew on New Year's Day, but now unfortunately has become the word of 2020: coronavirus. This infection has ground society to a virtual halt, with perhaps the worst yet to come. In just sev read more
Looks like the real deal
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 13, 2020
Are many of you bored yet? There's not much to do, now that so many activities have been canceled or postponed due to coronavirus fears. (Two traditional April events, the Masters and the Boston Marathon, have been pushed back, and this morning public schools in Los Angeles and San Diego announced t read more
The coronavirus: How to protect yourself
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 12, 2020
These are not usual times and this is no usual Carole & Co. entry, thanks to this sudden scourge known as the coronavirus, specifically the strain known as COVID-19. Scores of activities that would provide us emotional or societal refuge in upcoming weeks, from postseason basketball tournaments to p read more
Ed Sullivan's special guest...Carole Lombard!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 11, 2020
Carole Lombard's career as an actress arguably reached its apex in the closing months of 1937, when two of her films hit screens at roughly the same time -- the Technicolor "True Confession" for Selznick International, and "True Confession" for her home studio of Paramount. Add a romance with Clark read more
We all scream for...
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 10, 2020
Like nearly all of us, Carole Lombard loved ice cream, as this shot from the set of "They Knew What They Wanted" indicates. But suppose she preferred her chocolate, vanilla or strawberry from a cup rather than a cone? Those of us who grew up with postwar suburbanization well recall the ice cream tru read more
Credit appreciated, credit (Richee) given
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 9, 2020
Carole Lombard made a magnificent portrait subject for numerous photographers during the Golden Age, and Eugene Robert Richee was no exception. However, he had an advantage over most of his rivals -- he worked at Paramount, Carole's studio home from 1930 to 1937. Richee thus trained his lens on Lomb read more
Want to get 'Wanted'? Go old-school
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 8, 2020
Here was my introduction to Carole Lombard, more than 34 years ago: Her 1937 screwball comedy "Nothing Sacred" (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/814968.html). "That isn't shaped like a DVD package," many of you younger folks may be thinking, and indeed it isn't -- it's something called a videoc read more
The subtext of 'White Woman'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 7, 2020
Every now and then, I read something about Carole Lombard that forces me to re-evaluate one particular facet of her career. So it was when I came across an entry about "White Woman," her 1933 Paramount potboiler that I've long considered the campiest movie Carole ever made (although the very concept read more
A new jolt from 'High Voltage'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 6, 2020
"High Voltage," Carole Lombard's first all-talking picture, is if nothing else a curio of the motion picture industry in the first few months of 1929, when sound stopped filmdom dead in its tracks and most of the movies released were for all intents and purposes photographed stage plays. It was true read more
A goddess in Griffith Park
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 5, 2020
That stunning Carole Lombard portrait, from Hollywood magazine, is a magazine cover photo, in genuine color, from 1931. Its pioneering photographer -- and another icon he pictured to stunning effect -- is the subject of today's entry.Edwin Bower Hesser was famed in the 1920s and '30s for his work in read more
Let's hear it for the homegirl
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 4, 2020
While Carole Lombard never saw the plaque honoring her at her birthplace at 704 Rockhill Street in Fort Wayne, Ind., she posed with it in Los Angeles before it was sent east. There it remains, some 82 years after its installation.We bring this up because the plaque is referred to in a Lombard profil read more
Her aim is true
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 3, 2020
Carole Lombard's athletic prowess wasn't limited to the tennis court. She excelled in track, swimming and other sports...including skeet shooting, as shown below.And just as Carole honed her tennis game with the aid of renowned instructors such as Eleanor Tennant, so did she get the best to help her read more
Nothing like a new p1202
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 2, 2020
This one of Carole Lombard for instance, p1202-981, probably from 1934. That smile is mesmerizing, isn't it? And yes, the fur dates the pic, but you must concede she wears it well.It's an 8" x 10" in very good condition, and it's on sale at eBay for $20. Want it? Go to https://www.ebay.com/itm/Origi read more
An ancestor's autographed memory
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 1, 2020
Any photo of Carole Lombard and her beloved Palomino gelding Pico is worth a look, but there's more to the image than that. Here it is in its entirety.Can't read the inscription? An enlarged version is below.Now, more about it, from a new Facebook friend: His fgrandfather worked at RKO for many year read more
On leap year day, praise pre-Code lingerie
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 29, 2020
Carole Lombard made her Paramount debut in 1930's "Safety In Numbers," a frothy romp starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers where his quartet of leading ladies strutted around the chic apartment they shared in varied states of undress. For instance... ...from left, Virginia Bruce, Carole, Josephine Dunn an read more
A-yachting she and Gary go (thanks, Aunt Helen!)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 28, 2020
From this photo, one might sense Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper each had spent their entire lives breathing in ocean air. Not the case, of course; Carole spent the first part of her childhood in Fort Wayne, Ind., while Coop grew up in Helena, Mont., then attended Grinnell College in Iowa.But both lo read more
Hooray for leap year: Happy birthday from TCM, Jean
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 27, 2020
Beggars can't be choosers, so this is the only known photograph of Carole Lombard with Jean Harlow. While neither's at their most alluring, this image for the fan mag Radio Mirror accompanied a story on the feud between Walter Winchell and Jimmie Fidler. (The fifth person in the pic? Russ Columbo, t read more