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For Lombard fans, tomorrow is a 'Sacred' day
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 19, 2011
For the past few months, Dec. 20 has been a red-letter day for many Carole Lombard fans. Here's why:It's the day that Kino International releases "Nothing Sacred," regarded by virtually all film historians as one of Carole's classics and a landmark in cynical screwball comedy, is released on DVD and read more
Archiving more 'Carol' than 'Carole'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 18, 2011
Here's more on the Newspaper Archive discussed in yesterday's entry, and it has to do with the period in which Carole Lombard posed for the above image -- 1929. It's no secret that until late 1930, Lombard often used "Carol" as her first name for film purposes (or had it used by studios), but how mu read more
Early returns from a newfound Archive
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 17, 2011
It's occasionally mind-boggling that "Carole & Co." is now more than 4 1/2 years old, with more than 1,800 entries written (mostly by me) since day one. What's even more amazing is that thanks to the Internet and related technologies, the volume of available information on Carole Lombard is seemingl read more
The souped-up, culinary Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 16, 2011
In "Hands Across The Table," Carole Lombard's character, manicurist Regi Allen, is shown at an upscale restaurant with purportedly wealthy Theodore Drew (Fred MacMurray). While the real-life Carole enjoyed a night out on the town, having meals where the elite meet to eat, she was often content being read more
Career? Colorful. Illustrations? Black and white.
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 15, 2011
After Carole Lombard was featured on the cover of Screenland magazine's October 1935 issue, it certainly wasn't going to give her the honor in successive months. (If '30s-style movie monthly fan magazines were around today, I'm not sure even Jennifer Aniston would warrant such treatment.) No, the No read more
Archive these pre-Codes
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 14, 2011
Ah, to the power of pre-Code films. For the merely prurient, it provides an opportunity to see Carole Lombard and other beauties cavort in lingerie (as she and Josephine Dunn are doing in Lombard's first film for Paramount, "Safety In Numbers"). Beyond that, viewers can watch films that examine topi read more
Lombard 'Profiled' in memorabilia auction
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 13, 2011
Carole Lombard, in all her beauty, from mid-1935 in Paramount's p1202-1161 -- a heretofore unseen image from my years of tracking down Lombard portraits. It's among several items of hers available at Profiles In History's latest "Icons Of Hollywood" auction.All the items relating to Carole will be a read more
TCM looks East(man) for a preservation tribute
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 13, 2011
Carole Lombard had a supporting role in Billy Bevan's comedy vehicle "The Bicycle Flirt," a Mack Sennett two-reeler released in the spring of 1928. It's one of more than 28,000 films in the collection of the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y.:The one-time mansion of camera pioneer George Eastma read more
Centennial of a Hollywood rebel
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 12, 2011
In the past, we've noted Carole Lombard's feminist philosophy (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/157005.html), but she was hardly the only outspoken actress of her time. Myrna Loy often publicly favored better roles for blacks and other minorities, and later in life helped fight for better housin read more
A salute to a premier(e) fan
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 11, 2011
Neither Carole Lombard nor Clark Gable had anything to do with the MGM film "Marie Antoinette," but when it premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater on July 9, 1938, they were among the invited guests -- and some 25,000 fans jammed the area near the theater to see Carole, Clark and many other screen read more
Recipes for stardom
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 10, 2011
Food's the theme of today's entry. Some years before Carole Lombard made "Fools For Scandal," she contributed an entry of her own...to a celebrity-laden cookbook that we noted slightly more than three years ago (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/159908.html). It's called "Fashions In Foods In Bev read more
Given the third degree
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 10, 2011
...of separation, that is.Yep, I'm back playing the game that began last month (http://myloveofoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2011/11/classic-film-six-degrees-of-separation.html); if you recall, I set up the final degree in linking Mabel Normand to Walter Matthau,.....then set up a six degrees game of ge read more
In the wake of Pearl Harbor
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 9, 2011
As December 1941 opened, Carole Lombard, shown with husband Clark Gable at a polo match that he took part in earlier that year, probably sensed the U.S. was drawing nearer to entering World War II. She may initially have been opposed to the idea, but the brutality of the Axis powers likely changed h read more
Learn Lombard's secret
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 8, 2011
Carole Lombard wasn't by nature a secretive soul (the October 2008 cover of Turner Classic Movies' Now Playing notwithstanding), but apparently she had some methods to her "madness" that made her successful. Those methods included Lombard's popularity with men...beyond her beauty and sex appeal, tha read more
Los Angeles draws nearer to 'a date which will live in infamy'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 7, 2011
Carole Lombard and Clark Gable are shown at a meeting of the Hollywood Victory Committee in December 1941, organized by members of the motion picture community not long after Pearl Harbor. Today marks the 70th anniversary of that tragic event, which thrust the U.S. firsthand into World War II; doubt read more
A true confession: For a while, I was stumped
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 6, 2011
At times, playing vintage photography sleuth can leave one as stumped as Philo Vance or Nick Charles at the midpoint of a movie. And, dare I say it, that just happened to me.The photo in question is this, from Carole Lombard's final film for Paramount, "True Confession": A nice image of Carole, one read more
Eleanor Fisher
Carole & Co. Posted by jhndltn on Dec 6, 2011
Here is a picture of Eleanor Fisher who was an award winner, of sorts, for winning a contest as "Miss Typical America". Her reward was a role in "True Confessions" with Lombard. As far as I can tell , it was her one and only screen outing. Some beauty contest winners do indeed ge read more
Hedda, Louella and Lombard
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 5, 2011
Like virtually every Hollywood notable, Carole Lombard knew filmland's two syndicated columnist queens, Hedda Hopper (top, sharing the screen with her in the 1929 Pathe film "The Racketeer") and Louella Parsons (who visited Lombard at Lake Tahoe in summer 1933 while she was in the process of gaining read more
Selling the silents
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 4, 2011
That's from late 1927, promoting one of Carole Lombard's first films for Mack Sennett (and the first in which she had significant screen time), "The Girl From Everywhere." Sennett, whose two-reelers in the 1920s were gradually losing steam to competitors such as Hal Roach, pulled out all the stops f read more
Looking back: December 1932
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 3, 2011
"No" was the key word for Carole Lombard in December 1932...as in "No More Orchids," which Columbia had released late in November, and "No Man Of Her Own," which her home studio of Paramount issued that month. But never fear -- in some cities, Carole still had "Virtue" (the movie, that is, which was read more