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The lady who turned down 300 grand
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 7, 2012
From her late teens onward, Carole Lombard carefully cultivated publicity, fully cognizant of its importance to her profession. It played a major role in building her persona, enabling her to win the affection of millions. Moreover, Lombard had an innate sense of creating precisely the right kind of read more
Before tragedy struck
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 6, 2012
About two weeks after Pearl Harbor, the Hollywood Victory Committee, comprised of many notables in the film industry, met to discuss how movie personnel could best aid the war effort. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard attended -- Gable, at the time among the top box-office draws in the U.S., was named read more
Yet more from Tally
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 5, 2012
This photo of Carole (or, as she went by at that time, "Carol") Lombard as a Pathe player, wearing a shirt emblazoned with the studio's famed rooster logo, is a fairly common image of her in the late 1920s. But here's another one, almost certain from the same session, that many of you many never hav read more
Be positive over this negative
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 4, 2012
A relatively rare Paramount portrait of Carole Lombard, p1202-525, has popped up on eBay:It's from sometime in 1933, and I'm not sure whether it was taken by Otto Dyar, Eugene Robert Richee, or someone else at Paramount. Whatever, it's lovely.It's actually an original 8" x 10" studio nitrate negativ read more
Terrific, and from Tally
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 3, 2012
Nice pic, isn't it? It's Carole Lombard in Paramount p1202-626, probably from late 1933 or early '34, and it came to me from Tally Haugen, one of an array of Lombard photos she's sent my way of late. Here are several others...This is a publicity still for "They Knew What They Wanted," and Lombard, i read more
Talkin' Marion for Tuesday (happy 115th!)
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 2, 2012
There aren't too many pictures of Carole Lombard and Marion Davies floating around, but this is one of them. It's Carole with husband Clark Gable and Marion with her escort, director Raoul Walsh (the man whose former Encino residence now belonged to the Gables), at the Los Angeles premiere of "Gone read more
Mogul bids nine queens: The details
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 1, 2012
Well, we've made it to 2012 (unless you were born in a later year and have somehow stumbled upon this in the distant future, in which case I'm amazed by its staying power!). Throughout the year, "Carole & Co." will further research the life of Lombard and the times of classic Hollywood, and we'll be read more
For Harlow, everything's coming up Roses
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 31, 2011
As far as I know of, Carole Lombard never posed for a publicity still that expressly had a New Year's theme (the header we've been running this week doesn't count, since it was from an actual scene in "Made For Each Other"), so this is the best we can come up with, a shot with balloons in the backgr read more
Filmed in a hometown I never knew
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 30, 2011
That photo of Carole Lombard and husband Clark Gable was taken 71 years ago in Washington, D.C., not long after the couple had arrived in town by train from Chicago. There are several passenger rail routes that link the two cities, and it's possible Clark and Carole rode through a town I used to liv read more
Schooled in...Richard? Robert? Who?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 29, 2011
Fans of one Carole Lombard co-star might have an identity crisis...one I can appreciate. That picture, of course, shows Lombard with Robert Montgomery in a publicity still from the closing scene of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." It's being auctioned at eBay through just after midnight (Eastern) on Monday; bids read more
Carole and Clark, Chicago style
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 28, 2011
It was 71 years ago today -- Dec. 28, 1940 -- that Carole Lombard and Clark Gable changed trains in Chicago, bound for sightseeing in Washington and medical work in Baltimore. And as fate would have it, this Chi-town anniversary in Gable and Lombard history coincides with the auction (or sale) of ph read more
'Century' climbs aboard the Registry
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 28, 2011
Remember the old Woody Guthrie song "This Train Is Bound For Glory"? Well, the cinematic train called "Twentieth Century" -- arguably the most pivotal film in Carole Lombard's career, where she proved beyond a doubt her mettle for comedy -- has gained its glory, joining the National Film Registry. I read more
Two new p1202...a heckuva Heritage
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 27, 2011
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions holds an online film memorabilia auction each week, and Carole Sampeck of The Lombard Archive led off a recent e-mail to me with this message:This first photo is STUNNING. Have never seen it before. WOW!!!!! What's she talking about? This:It's p1202-1149 (I believe th read more
On both coasts, classic movie 'Gold (Rush')
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 26, 2011
Two filmland legends -- one who directed Carole Lombard's final film, the other who Lombard unsuccessfully auditioned for what would have been among her first -- are being honored with theater presentations of their classic movies on each coast this week. And so, for that fact, is Carole herself.We' read more
Another Christmas Carole (and company)
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 25, 2011
For the Christmas season of 1927, Carole Lombard, a relative newcomer to the Mack Sennett troupe, posed on the right in this holiday greeting. The girl on the left has yet to be identified, but the lady in the Santa suit (possibly the same outfit Carole would wear for Christmas publicity the followi read more
Merry Christmas from Carole, and Ginger, and Gary, and...
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 24, 2011
During her brief lifetime, Carole Lombard posed for several Christmas-themed photographs. But have you ever heard her wish you Christmas greetings? Unless you're past 75 years old and spent some time in the movie circles of southern California (and how many of them follow "Carole & Co."?) I tend to read more
In the cards for Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 23, 2011
In the past, we've noted how Carole Lombard's image, as well as those of other stars, was used by tobacco companies as premiums, such as the exquisite Garbaty card from Germany in 1936 seen above (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/205341.html). Today, we're going to examine some other European to read more
Lombard et Laughton...en francais
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 22, 2011
"They Knew What They Wanted," Carole Lombard's last excursion into drama, is a fairly difficult movie to find, likely attributable to rights issues with the estate of Sidney Howard, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning play from which it was derived. But a way has been discovered for you to learn th read more
Carole makes TCM's festival, but will the Academy let her outside?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 21, 2011
"Nothing Sacred" has been in the news lately. This week, a high-definition version of the 1937 Carole Lombard screwball gem was released on both DVD and Blu-ray, and Turner Classic Movies has just announced it will be screened in April as part of the third edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival, s read more
Dueling Divas blogathon: p1202 vs. p1206
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 20, 2011
History has not recorded any specific reaction of hers, but from all I know about Carole Lombard, if anyone had ever described her as a "diva," she likely would have been upset. "Diva" connotes high-strung selfishness. and while Carole was high-spirited, selfish she was not. Over the years, she earn read more