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2020 vision: 'Fantastic Worlds' at film festival
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 29, 2019
Carole Lombard's spirit self always welcomes visitors to the Hollywood she loved so dearly (she's posing at her fabled Hollywood Boulevard residence in 1934), and that certainly will be true next April when an annual springtime tradition returns to the legendary film capital.It's the 11th annual Tur read more
Carole in a 'Carnival,' a rather racy one
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 28, 2019
Since breaking into movies in the 1920s, Carole Lombard knew her figure was a major selling point, as this publicity shot for "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" shows. Another still for the film, almost certainly suppressed by Joseph Breen's office, reveals far more skin than the industry allowed at the time:Now in read more
Musso & Frank celebrates a century
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 27, 2019
Carole Lombard always enjoyed eating out with a friend or cohort, as she did with Fredric March after they left the Hollywood Brown Derby on Vine Street, just north of Hollywood Boulevard. That venue is long gone, but another restaurant in Hollywood is still with us and next month celebrates a miles read more
Look who's in the window...it's 'Carole Lomb'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 26, 2019
Above is a Spanish-language herald for Carole Lombard's 1934 drama "Now And Forever" with fellow Paramount star Gary Cooper and up-and-coming Shirley Temple. Such star power gave the film an uncharacteristically long box-office life -- especially once Temple achieved worldwide renown at 20th Century read more
'Motion Picture,' August 1934: Beach fashion from Carole and friends
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 25, 2019
Earlier this month, we ran an entry about this beautiful yet mysterious Carole Lombard swimsuit picture (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/1021300.html). The mystery is its unreadable p1202 number (p1202 was Lombard's Paramount player ID for publicity stills independent of movies, which had thei read more
A different bit of Carole color
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 24, 2019
This Carole Lombard image has been hanging around cyberspace for some time, and yet I've never done anything with it. Perhaps it's because she's wearing furs or because she's holding a cigarette in her right hand. Or maybe it's because that as color pics of Lombard go, I never deemed it all that spe read more
Pictures provoking questions
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 23, 2019
Many Carole Lombard fans would agree this is among the most alluring color portraits ever taken of her, most famously used on the cover of the January 1940 Photoplay:A bit of exposed midriff, but no visible navel (a la Barbara Eden as Jeannie). The photographer? Paul Hesse (1896-1973), a New York na read more
'Modern' art, but not really 'mid-century'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 22, 2019
In the mid-1930s, Carole Lombard posed for this portrait by Azalia Newman, wife of director Rouben Mamoulian ("Queen Christina," "Silk Stockings"). Years after Carole's death, she again was an artist's subject, this time in the "pop art" style: While this acrylic-on-linen painting is defined as "mid read more
Lounging in glamour, classic Hollywood style
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 21, 2019
A few months back, the Huffington Post website issued an entry showing Carole Lombard and other stars in loungewear and such that in its words, "made tasks as mundane as ironing or talking on the phone look glamorous." Or, as in the image above, standing atop a box transformed into a goddess-like pl read more
Carole Lombard, sign in please
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 20, 2019
While Carole Lombard signed many an autograph during her relatively brief life, they remain among her most valued items of memorabilia. I'm expecting the following piece to do likewise:Now let's focus on the autograph:The seller "signature.required," has set $474.50 at the price; were this a "buy it read more
They say it's my birthday (now I'm sixty-four)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 19, 2019
Facebook friend David Hardwick supplied this surprise -- a scene of Carole Lombard, with birthday cake, from "Brief Moment." It's been some time since I last saw this 1933 Columbia drama, so I don't recall this scene, nor did I know such a still existed.Yes, today is my birthday, as I turn two to th read more
The ballplayer who 'went Hollywood'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 18, 2019
Carole Lombard is among the many actresses who are, or were, baseball fanatics. I think of my Facebook friend Mamie Van Doren, who's loved the American League Angels since their inception in 1961 under Gene Autry, or Mamie's contemporary Marilyn Monroe, who loved the sport long before she met Joe Di read more
Lots of 'Life' on eBay today
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 17, 2019
Today is Errol Flynn day on Turner Classic Movies in the U.S.' "Summer Under The Stars," which brings to mind that in the summer of 1935, Flynn, along with wife Lili Damita and Marlene Dietrich, were among the guests at Carole Lombard's party at the long-gone Venice Pier.Three years later, Lombard a read more
Next month, 'Stand Tall!' in Texas after dark
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 16, 2019
Carole Lombard and Clark Gable gets lots of love at Love Field in Dallas in December 1939 (that's MGM publicist Otto Winkler next to Carole) as they make a stopover en route to Atlanta for the "Gone With The Wind" premiere. For Carole -- who looks a bit perturbed by it all -- it's a far cry from her read more
A fragile, but 'banner,' item of memorabilia
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 15, 2019
Carole Lombard and James Stewart "made for" a fine couple in the 1939 Selznick International film "Made For Each Other." Now a super-rare piece of movie memorabilia has been put up for auction:What is it? We'll let the seller explain:As proof it "displays well," here are the other photos taken of it read more
What's so 'negative' about this p1202?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 14, 2019
Its origin, for one thing. It's from a vintage 8" x 10" negative of Paramount p1202-347, an image I've never come across before. The number indicates it's from late 1932 or early '33.Note it's the negative that's up for auction...and bidding begins at $146.99. Moreover, you don't have much time to b read more
DeMille and my 'Dynamite' error
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 13, 2019
Life was looking good for Carole Lombard -- or as she was known at the time, Carol Lombard -- in November 1928 when she posed for this delectable shot, aboard Mitchell Leisen's yacht, that ran in the Los Angeles Times. But her ascending acting career was about to hit a speedbump, courtesy of one of read more
Cover-ing Carole: Fanmags x 5
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 12, 2019
This, from Hollywood in July 1931, may have been Carole Lombard's first cover of an English-language American fan magazine. (She'd graced the front of Spanish-language fanmags in 1929.) Note it's actual color photography, an experimental process from the renowned glamour artist Edwin Bower Hesser.Fo read more
Are rom-coms swimming against the 'stream'?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 11, 2019
The romantic comedy, a favorite genre of Carole Lombard -- she's shown above directing Alfred Hitchcock's traditional cameo in her 1941 film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" -- is supposedly making a comeback. Think of last year's surprise theatrical hit "Crazy Rich Asians," for example.Yet several skeptics disa read more
Carole and Shirley, bearly there again
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 10, 2019
Carole Lombard made one movie with up-and-coming child star Shirley Temple, the 1934 Paramount drama "Now And Forever." In her later years, Temple praised Lombard's courtesy and lack of condescension towards a child actor. Here, Shirley plays the daughter of the slightly shady Gary Cooper, Carole th read more