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An 'elopement' announced in Chicago
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 18, 2019
I've never seen this photo of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable before, but it's from before March 30, 1939. That's because it was used in that morning's Chicago Daily Tribune as it announced their semi-surprise wedding:Don't see it right away? It's in the upper right-hand corner of the front page:I'm read more
Fans before foes
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 17, 2019
Carole Lombard's last full day of life, Jan. 15, 1942, was spent exhorting residents of her native state of Indiana to back the war effort by buying bonds. It likely didn't come to her mind -- not that it would've mattered to her -- that she had many fans in the nations she was urging America to fig read more
Lombard by Thomas, but hardly racy
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 16, 2019
Link "Carole Lombard" with "William E. Thomas," her primary Pathe photographer, and these are the images your mind conjures up: "artistic," sexy pictures of a girl at or about 20 -- commercial erotica for the late 1920s.But Thomas photographed Lombard in all sorts of moods and settings, where any se read more
Is there vision to open 'Virtue'?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 15, 2019
Many deem "Virtue" Carole Lombard's best pre-Code film (while "Twentieth Century" was released shortly before the Production Code was strictly enforced in mid-1934, it really belongs in the screwball category). As a streetwalker trying to go straight, only to have her past catch up with her, Carole read more
'Safety' in an unauthorized DVD
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 14, 2019
Barely remembered today, 1930's "Safety In Numbers" turned out to be a pivotal picture for Carole Lombard. It was her first film at Paramount, as she played one of three Follies girls hired to chaperone young millionaire Charles "Buddy" Rogers around New York. (Lombard had worked with Rogers before, read more
A little Lombard and a lot of 'Movie Humor'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 13, 2019
Carole Lombard is pictured with castmate Mayo Methot in this Columbia publicity still from 1932's "Virtue" (to be honest, I don't recall this scene in the film). It ran in an issue of Film Fun, a rather racy magazine appealing to men who liked to see women in their underthings -- and let's face it, read more
You've got (snail) mail! An epistle history of Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 12, 2019
Above is a letter Carole Lombard sent on Paramount stationery in February 1937 to a family in Maplewood, N.J., regretting that she could not accept their invitation to a daughter's birthday party because she was at work on her latest film, "Swing High, Swing Low." It's rather charming.Now a new book read more
Right mag, wrong year, take two
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 11, 2019
In the case of this Carole Lombard fan magazine cover, it's deja vu all over again.More than six years ago, that fanmag was promoted on eBay as being from Modern Screen of January 1931. We were skeptical, did some research and found the issue in question was from January 1932, not '31 and explained read more
KNX turns 99
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 10, 2019
Movies made Carole Lombard a legend, but it wasn't the only medium she made her mark in. Sometime in the 1920s, the Peters family -- Jane Alice (her birth name), brothers Frederic and Stuart, and mother Elizabeth Peters -- purchased their first radio set, and it may have resembled this mid-twenties read more
Carole Lombard, RKO (plenty of) style
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 9, 2019
Carole Lombard's arrival at RKO in the spring of 1939, for the likes of "In Name Only" (a publicity still for which is shown above), coincided with her long-sought marriage to Clark Gable. That accomplishment infused Carole with confidence, and it showed in her fashion photographs.Take this, for ins read more
Carole, and Kay, en espanol
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 8, 2019
In 1931, audiences saw Carole Lombard and Kay Francis in support of William Powell (whom Lombard married in late June) in his Paramount vehicle "Ladies' Man." They also saw the ladies in that September's issue of the Spanish-language fanmag Cinelandia, Kay on the cover......and Carole inside in a on read more
Give 'Godfrey,' and others, a lift
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 7, 2019
In one of its many surveys, the site ranker.com asks readers to rank the best romantic comedies of the 1930s (https://www.ranker.com/list/best-30s-romantic-comedies/ranker-film). Carole Lombard fans can help her move up in the world.Her 1936 classic "My Man Godfrey" is currently ranked second, trail read more
Colleen and Keswick await Austin After Dark
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 6, 2019
Carole Lombard never wrote a screenplay, but if she had, she could've consulted with such heavyweights as Oscar-winner Robert Riskin, whom she dated for some time in the mid-1930s. Many writers at the time used Lombard as a sounding board, respecting her innate feel for what makes a good script. Ris read more
Only her hairdresser knew for sure
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 5, 2019
Every star actress treasures her hairdresser, and Carole Lombard was no exception. As proof. note this 11" x 14" autographed photo she signed to hers, someone named "Porter" -- specifically it reads, "To Porter Dear Loads of My Love Carole." (This Porter apparently did the hair of many other notable read more
Academy Museum update
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 4, 2019
I'm currently having difficulties using my laptop to create Carole & Co. entries, so in the meantime, I'm going to plan B. And we'll begin by examining the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, set to open in 2020.The museum site, https://www.academymuseum.org/en/, provides a feel for what the place wi read more
A romantic portrait for 'Fools'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 3, 2019
It's been a while since we've contemplated Carole Lombard's lone film for Warners, the 1938 comedy "Fools For Scandal." This vehicle essentially ran like a jalopy, made at a studio with no real feel for the specifics of screwball comedy and a lead character for whom one never developed any sympathy. read more
'Godfrey' turns 83
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 2, 2019
Yesterday marked the 83rd anniversary of the release of one of Carole Lombard's most iconic films, "My Man Godfrey." Universal -- under new ownership -- pulled out all the stops for its world premiere, at the Pantages in Hollywood:This ad ran in the Los Angeles Times of Sept. 1, 1936, although fine read more
Where there's Hope, there's Carole (Lombard Gable, that is).
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 1, 2019
In May 1941, Carole Lombard and Bob Hope made their first and only teaming of any kind when they co-starred in a Lux Radio Theater adaptation of Carole's recent film, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." Hope's next movie, the service comedy "Caught In The Draft." was to be released in July.But they "teamed up" in a read more
Zukor, Zanuck, Mayer, Cohn...Trump?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 31, 2019
My "holy trinity" of Golden Age actresses -- Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy and Barbara Stanwyck -- recently held court. Here's the transcript:Lombard: Myrna, Stany, I invited you here because I just came across something that has to be seen, er, read to be believed. It's from the latest issue -- Septemb read more
It's really her, all right
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 30, 2019
Not all classic Hollywood actresses look alike, of course. But Carole Lombard and her contemporaries often had similarities of appearance that could confuse those who didn't know any better.The photo above, for instance, exudes a bit of a contemplative Marilyn Monroe '50s vibe. And these pics of Joa read more