Welcome to BlogHub: the Best in Veteran and Emerging Classic Movie Blogs
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
Profiling 'No One Man' (and one stunning woman)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 27, 2019
Carole Lombard may be signaling "touchdown" for "No One Man"...but after further review, the call is reversed. Carole's first top-billed vehicle, released in early 1932, is among the weakest films she made at Paramount. But when It comes to Lombard publicity stills, the quality of said film is irrel read more
Meet the original Wanda Nash
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 26, 2019
Ah, the beautiful Princess Olga, Swedish royalty, sailing across the Atlantic to America and eventually to Hollywood for a movie career. She's actually Brooklyn showgirl Wanda Nash, determined to put over her scam in "The Princess Comes Across," a 1936 Carole Lombard comedy. (That's accomplice Aliso read more
Our Christmas present: Mapping out Hollywood, 1926
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 25, 2019
Carole Lombard wishes you cheer this holiday season, as do I. It's currently a clear Christmas Day in Los Angeles, but rain is more likely than not over the next few hours. (Much of the U.S. is without snow today, rather atypical for Dec. 25.) With that in mind, let's escape 2019 and visit the '20s, read more
A Christmas Carole-ing we go
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 24, 2019
This ad ran in Hollywood trade papers in December 1937, promoting what would be Carole Lombard's final film for Paramount, "True Confession." The movie itself is not set during the holiday scenes, but several other of her films are.So to honor the season on this Christmas Eve, as many of you prepare read more
In the picture from 'Eisie,' for more than two grand
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 23, 2019
Carole Lombard was blessed to live at a time when her ethereal appearance could be captured by some of the best photographers in history. She was an ideal subject for George Hurrell and other legendary masters of Hollywood studio stills, and in 1938 a German refugee now working for an American picto read more
For Hollywood backdrops, a happy ending
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 22, 2019
It's hard not to focus on dazzling Carole Lombard or the atypically undashing William Powell in this still from "My Man Godfrey"...but instead of focusing on them, look at what's behind them. Their characters are at Manhattan's fictional "Waldorf-Ritz" hotel, where a scavenger hunt is concluding. An read more
No stone, er, brick unturned: Honesty is the best policy
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 21, 2019
The following story is rather charming, one I've never heard before, and concerns the Fort Wayne house where Carole Lombard was born as Jane Alice Peters in 1908 and raised until leaving for California with her mother and two older brothers.The house, a splendid example of turn-of-the-century archit read more
Now this is artistry
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 20, 2019
Isn't this a lovely image of Carole Lombard? It shows her in the late 1930s, though I don't believe it was produced at that time. It's described as "a gorgeous rendition of Carole Lombard in pastels as she appeared in the late 1930s before her untimely passing in 1942. Unrestored artwork that displa read more
Carole 'slides' in
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 19, 2019
"Man Of The World" was a crucial film for Carole Lombard, more for her personal life than for her career. It as her first movie with William Powell, who months later would become her first husband and then a close lifelong friend. An unusual artifact from the film has surfaced on eBay.It's a slide, read more
Touring the noir side of LA, Chandler style
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 18, 2019
As with anyone who leaves us prematurely, many "what if" questions surround Carole Lombard. One of them, to me, was whether she would have attempted the new dramatic genre called film noir, which more or less began in 1941 with films such as "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon," both starring Hum read more
Late in her Paramount period
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 17, 2019
This is Paramount p1202-1420, Carole Lombard from sometime in 1937. We've run this photo before, but it's now available at auction via eBay.The seller says nothing about the pic aside from that it's 8" x 10". However, of the person's 200 photos (including several others of Carole), all have opening read more
The response from FDR
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 16, 2019
Carole Lombard and Clark Gable visited Washington, D.C., at the end of 1940, and among the things they did was meet President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House and heard his "arsenal of democracy" fireside chat, broadcast Dec. 29. So shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack the following Dec. 7, read more
80 years ago tonight, a 'Wind' blew in
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 15, 2019
It's strange, but true that one of the films Carole Lombard is associated with is one she was only tangentially involved with. We are of course referring to "Gone With The Wind," which had its world premiere 80 years ago tonight at the Loew's Grand theater in Atlanta. Say what you will about the fil read more
Welcome to 'the ranch'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 14, 2019
They were like any newly-married couple moving into new quarters...if both spouses' combined annual salaries were at least a hundred times greater than the average American household's ($1,368 on April 1, 1940, according to the U.S. Census)...or if each's images were similarly enlarged on gigantic s read more
From the original p1202 negatives, part 2: A Head case, and more
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 13, 2019
This dress is from arguably the best-known collaboration between Carole Lombard and Oscar-winning designer Edith Head -- an outfit she made for Carole's final Paramount film, "True Confession." It appeared at an Ohio exhibit in 2014 (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/699504.html).A view of anoth read more
Cast in critical choice: A celebration of 'Mom'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 12, 2019
Director Gregory La Cava, right, poses on the set with four of his "My Man Godfrey" stars: Carole Lombard, William Powell, Alice Brady and Mischa Auer. All the actors were nominated for Academy Awards -- Lombard and Powell as leads, Brady and Auer in the supporting category (newly instituted in 1936 read more
Join Carole for beauty in a 'Woman's World'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 11, 2019
In early 1936, Universal hoped it could latch on to Carole Lombard's rising star with its "Love Before Breakfast." A few months before, her home studio of Paramount issued "Hands Across The Table," its first comedic vehicle expressly tailored to her talent. (Ernst Lubitsch, briefly the studio's head read more
Carole and Clark answer the call
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 10, 2019
In October 1941, about the time Carole Lombard turned 33, she and Clark Gable journeyed to South Dakota to hunt pheasant. Two months later, their world -- and that of all Americans -- would be irrevocably changed.The global conflict now formally known as World War II finally snared the U.S. into it read more
A Lombardic spin on a popular meme
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 9, 2019
Early last year, we created this Carole Lombard image promoting her as a positive alternative to the Kardashian family, a clan many feel have been overexposed for no significant reason. It became a somewhat popular meme, as several hundred copied the image and distributed it across the Internet.Now, read more
Not negative about two 'new' p1202s
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 8, 2019
Carole Lombard apparently appeared in more than 1,700 photos in Paramount's series of p1202 portraits (that was the "player" coding the studio assigned her) from 1930 to 1937. One of my wishes as a Lombard fan is to find them all and assemble a checklist of sorts, perhaps in book form -- a compilati read more