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Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 18, 2020
By now, I guess many of you know I suffered a minor heart attack Wednesday night, my second in 14 years (hence the Carole Lombard "heart" picture at the top of this entry). Thanks to the good people at McCormick Ambulance and St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, Calif., I'm back home after two day read more
A goddess in gray chiffon
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 15, 2020
We've previously run this Carole Lombard Paramount still, p1202-1272, but knew little about it -- until this version appeared, with a snipe on the rear:The wording in close-up:Gray chiffon, plenty of beautiful bare back, a brooch in star sapphire -- it's by all means "ethereal." The photo was issued read more
Drawing nearer
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 14, 2020
Ready for your close-up, Carole Lombard? We're only two days away from......the Carole Lombard Memorial Blogathon, where from Thursday through Sunday people will contribute entries relating to the life and films of one of Hollywood's iconic actresses and most beloved personalities.What will I contri read more
Carole: The stuff that dreams are made of?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 13, 2020
This is the portrait of Carole Lombard the British Film Institute is using to promote its month-long tribute to her (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/1049699.html). My UK Facebook friend Sheila Bryans went to Southbank the other night to take in one of her films, and well, let's let her explain read more
'Godfrey' rates 5th, and Rom Com Fest returns
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 12, 2020
It's no secret that Carole Lombard's "My Man Godfrey" is among the greatest romantic comedies in movie history. Now to my pleasure, a noted film site has validated its status.At its "Romance Central" site, RottenTomatoes.com has selected the 1936 screwball pic, which co-stars Lombard's ex William Po read more
Lots of Lombard for a (potentially) little price
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 11, 2020
It's possible that by the end of next week, someone could acquire seven Carole Lombard movies on DVD...and pay less than a dollar for each film. (Before shipping and handling, of course).OK, the DVDs in question date from 2005 and 2006, respectively -- but they're apparently in good shape. Several o read more
Reproduced rarities from Lombard's '20s
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 10, 2020
Since we're now in the '20s -- the 2020s, of course -- one seller of Carole Lombard memorabilia is marketing six reproductions of items from her first cinematic decade, such as this lobby card from her second Pathe all-talkie, "Big News." A poster from that film is also available:By far the most int read more
A briefly sour taste to this 'Ladies' Man' tea
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 9, 2020
"Ladies' Man" is one of several movies Carole Lombard made in late 1930 and early 1931, an early teaming with future husband William Powell and her first film with Kay Francis (they'd reunite eight years later at Lombard's behest for "In Name Only"). It's a so-so melodrama where Powell returns to hi read more
A pair of pics and a puckish panel
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 8, 2020
Today's entry touches a few bases, opening with this Carole Lombard item on eBay. It's two 8" x 10" portraits of her (set up to look like one because both are vertical poses, Neither are original vintage shots, but both show Carole looking stylish. The pair goes for $6.99, and you can get all the in read more
Falling into the Gap
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 7, 2020
We've been "on the farm" with Carole Lombard in 1937 the past few days (the predecessor to the Encino ranch she and Clark Gable settled down in after their marriage a few years later), and here she is looking over the several-acre site, the Paramount still p1202-1533.More than half a century later, read more
Lombard loves livestock, part 2 (equines, etc.)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 6, 2020
Are the pictures in this entry the happiest ever taken of Carole Lombard? My Facebook friend Brian Lee Anderson believes so, and he has a good argument. They were taken on her small San Fernando Valley ranch in 1937, and the pics (such as Paramount p1202-1686, above) show Carole with her beloved Pal read more
Monday in Maryland, the matinee of the 'Century'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 5, 2020
We had planned for today's Carole & Co. entry to be part 2 of "Lombard and livestock," but we're pushing that back to Monday in order to alert you to a special showing of one of her films at a theater restored to its 1930s charm. And best of all, it's free.The movie: The screwball comedy that vaulte read more
Lombard loves livestock, part 1 (bovines)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 4, 2020
I dare you not to love, or at least like, this picture -- Carole Lombard, at the small farm she owned in the San Fernando Valley, posing with one of her cows. Facebook friend Brian Anderson found it, and here's the still in its entirety, Paramount p1202-1522, from 1937: Carole developed quite an att read more
Carole, meet Weimar Germany
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 3, 2020
In the fall of 1930, Paramount sought to introduce its newly-signed Carole Lombard to international audiences by having her hold a large card with holiday greetings; this one was in German, another in Hungarian. But earlier that year, Lombard was given a publicity push in the Weimar Republic, and in read more
Two days into the decade, two weeks from the blogathon
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 2, 2020
At top, Carole Lombard (then Jane Alice Peters), at right with a friend at Kimberly Crest in Redlands in 1919 (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/834477.html), Below, Carole (still Jane) gets her first taste of motion pictures, acting with Monte Blue in the lost 1921 film "A Perfect Crime."I'm ru read more
A nice way to start the (20)'20s
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 1, 2020
Carole & Co. has made it to the '20s...the 2020s, that is. If you were born on or before Dec. 31, 1939, you've completed stamping all ten decades on your life card -- congratulations! (I sent that comment to ageless Facebook friend Mamie Van Doren, whose favorite quotes include "Get as old as you f- read more
Adieu to the tumultuous '10s
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 31, 2019
Carole Lombard and James Stewart, playing young marrieds, prepare to ring in 1939 in a scene from "Made For Each Other." We're ringing not only a new year tonight, but a new decade, assuming you believe (as most do) that a decade begins in "0."So as we prepare to enter the 2020s, let me look back on read more
This pic is 'Choice'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 30, 2019
Few would call "Lady By Choice" (1934), Carole Lombard's fifth and final film for Columbia, a classic. But it has its moments, particularly in the comic chemistry Carole has with May Robson as a struggling aging woman of the streets taken in by fan dancer Lombard, ostensibly for publicity purposes. read more
A sextet in sepia
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 29, 2019
This is Carole Lombard in Paramount p1202-1323, from late 1936 or early '37. It's one of six original pics of her now up for auction in sepia, looking something like this:Here are several close-ups:And here is the back:I don't know the size of any of these photos, by the way.This photo has an openin read more
Beyond the flapper: Women's lot in the '20s
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 28, 2019
There are many Carole Lombard photographic "holy grails," and among them is visual proof of her carefree time in dance contests at the legendary Cocoanut Grove in 1925, while a starlet at Fox. She competed with, and occasionally beat, the likes of fellow flapper Joan Crawford until an auto read more