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'Stand Tall!' for a 'Fugitive Sweetheart' -- and help me, too
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 1, 2019
As Maria Tura in "To Be Or Not To Be," Carole Lombard typed a message to save her acting troupe and her fellow Poles in the underground from the Nazis. Now, it's time to rescue Keswick Fletcher and Eloise Kellogg (aka Susan Birch)Who are they? First, Keswick is a scientist who's been kidnapped, and read more
A beaded superstition?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 30, 2019
It's been said Carole Lombard could wear nearly anything -- such as a large piece of fabric draped over her by Travis Banton, as seen above -- and make it look great. But it also led to some misconceptions about her fashion beliefs.Take the June 1934 issue of Silver Screen, with Jean Harlow on the c read more
'Absolutely authentic'...and expensive, too
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 29, 2019
Ever wanted your own autographed Carole Lombard picture? Well, you can...but more on that later. But if you have any doubt about the veracity of the signature, here's a close-up:And a comment from my unquestioned authority on Lombard autographs, Carole Sampeck:"Absolutely authentic. ...Nice, clean s read more
Iconic films, iconic building
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 28, 2019
It's November 1936, and Carole Lombard, aided by Superior Court judge (and future Los Angeles mayor) Fletcher Bowron, officially adopts her new moniker, divorcing herself from birth name Jane Alice Peters. She did it downtown at the Hall of Records. Carole was no stranger to downtown LA by any means read more
Until it's issued again...
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 27, 2019
...here's the only way you can get Carole Lombard's breakthrough movie, "Twentieth Century," on DVD, more than 14 years after its issue. (As for its existence on Blu-ray, forget it.)One of these days, it'll be upgraded, with all the bells and whistles it deserves. For now, this is the best we can do read more
Right about the co-stars, wrong about the film
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 26, 2019
On a weekend where I understand some sort of all-star movie is opening, I came across this eBay item, headlined "1937 FREDRIC MARCH & CAROLE LOMBARD IN NOTHING SACRED Photo." I'm guessing this must be from a super-rare William Wellman "director's cut," because I never recall seeing Carole's Vermont read more
Carole + Capra, lobbying (twice) for a princess
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 25, 2019
I'm guessing this shot of Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert and director Frank Capra was taken on the Columbia lot in late 1933 or early '34, when Lombard was making "Twentieth Century" and the other three the future multiple Oscar-winner "It Happened One Night."Carole worked with many read more
Myrna, in Minnesota, in May. Magnificent!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 24, 2019
Two of my holy trinity of classic Hollywood actresses, Myrna Loy (left) and Carole Lombard. (Third in that exalted group of goddesses? Barbara Stanwyck.) And for the legion of Loy fans, particularly those in the Twin Cities, some delightful news: Next month, a Minneapolis repertory house pays tribut read more
'Forbidden Hollywood': See the films, buy the book
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 23, 2019
That's Carole Lombard, playing a former streetwalker trying to go straight, with cabbie Pat O'Brien in "Virtue" (1932). It's one of Lombard's toughest characters, typical for films made in what now is known as the pre-Code era. After the movie industry clamped down on the Production Code in mid-1934 read more
At first you don't succeed, so in 2021...
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 22, 2019
If you were planning to send a letter on behalf of the campaign for Carole Lombard to receive a commemorative United States postage stamp (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/987853.html), hold off on it. In fact, hold off for more than two years; here's why.Brian Lee Anderson, who's engineered th read more
Clippings for sale...twice
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 21, 2019
A happy Easter (what's left of it, anyway) from Carole Lombard, as we've run across two sets of clippings of her now available on eBay.This batch of 23 pics is available for $44.96, although you can make an offer. Find out more about it, and the conditions attached, at https://www.ebay.com/itm/Carol read more
'Confessions' about a magazine cover that isn't
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 20, 2019
And this has nothing to do with Carole Lombard's final film for Paramount (titled "True Confession," no "s"), which put her on the cover in February 1938......and also released a tie-in seen above. Rather, this deals with the April 1936 issue where Carole graced the cover (https://carole-and-co.live read more
Some 'Big News' about a Lombard still
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 19, 2019
Of the three talking feature films Carole Lombard made for Pathe (while she was billed as Carol Lombard), "Big News" is probably the least known. A shame, because it's directed by Gregory La Cava some seven years before he and Lombard would reteam for the brilliant "My Man Godfrey." Moreover, it's t read more
So, did Carole make "chick flicks"?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 18, 2019
Carole Lombard appeared in several dozen films during her relatively brief life -- but if today's terminology had been used then, would any of them have been labeled "chick flicks"?The term has come to refer to films designed primarily for female audiences, usually light in tone or comedic in nature read more
Carole & Coop...and 'Shadoplay'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 17, 2019
"Now And Forever," issued in late summer 1934, marked Carole Lombard's second and last collaboration with Gary Cooper. The pair thus was placed on the cover of that September's Shadoplay, Photoplay's low-budget cousin. The cover is the only illustration provided (according to the seller, three pages read more
Of Netflix and the Egyptian
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 16, 2019
I've never seen a photo of Carole Lombard at the fabled Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, but we do have this image of one of her films playing there, "True Confession" in late 1937. Perhaps she was at its premiere. But since the Sid Grauman-built venue opened in 1922, it's highly likely Lomb read more
Back in circulation for beaucoup bucks
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 15, 2019
Here's Carole Lombard, "Paramount star," as part of a display board for Max Factor lipstick. But in the 1930s, stars' agents didn't make deals to advertise products -- stars' studios did. This was evident in a contract Lombard signed with Factor on July 13, 1932:As you can see, Paramount was clearly read more
'Modern' -- and wrinkled
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 14, 2019
Carole Lombard worked with Paul Lukas in "No One Man," released in early 1932. More than three years later, they reunited -- not for a movie, but for tennis with noted character actor Eric Blore at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs, a photo used in 1935 for Dell Publishing's Modern magazine:It belong read more
An intimate view of Clark and Carole's wedding
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 13, 2019
The story of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard's 1939 "honeymoon" in Oatman, Ariz., long has been exposed as so much myth, but one good by-product of it came in March 1989 -- the 50th anniversary of their wedding in Kingman, Ariz.The widow of Otto Winkler, the MGM publicist who died with Lombard and he read more
Pretty sexy Pathe pics
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 12, 2019
We've frequently mentioned that the first Carole Lombard photographer to play up her sensuality was Pathe's William E. Thomas. In the late 1920s and her early 20s, Thomas captured Carol -- remember, at Pathe, Lombard's first name had no "e" -- as her sexuality began to blossom.Five examples of Thoma read more