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To start the new year, Lombard and Hurrell
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 1, 2019
Carole Lombard, photographed by George Hurrell -- what could be more iconic, or more sublime?I'm pretty certain we've shown this portrait before, but it's resurfaced on eBay, and it continues to allure. Witness, beginning with this close-up of Carole and following with Hurrell's stamp, the back of t read more
Carole, Clark and a cafe paint a pretty picture
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 31, 2018
If New Year's Eve is celebrated in Hollywood heaven, one thinks Carole Lombard and Clark Gable will party somewhere (is there an afterlife Brown Derby?). Then again, the Gables might want to welcome 2019 in a more casual manner, as many of us certainly will.Perhaps they'll head here:Welcome to the F read more
My favorite year...movie-wise, that is
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 30, 2018
Carole Lombard and Cary Grant...with apologies to the wonderful William Powell, they are the actress and actor most identified with screwball comedy. Yet in a cruel irony, their only co-starring feature was a drama, albeit a good one: "In Name Only." It was one of two films Lombard made in 1939 (the read more
Early talkie 'Voltage'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 29, 2018
Carole Lombard found "High Voltage," made in early 1929, a wholly new experience -- a film where she and other characters talked on screen for the entirety of the feature. (A silent version also was made for the many theaters not yet equipped for sound.) Lombard passed muster at Pathe for talkies la read more
Europe, here she comes! (Or so she thought.)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 28, 2018
It's the start of 1935, and Carole Lombard is beaming. Why shouldn't she be? An explanation can be found by seeing the whole of this photo, as well as its proposed caption:(For those who can't make it out, it reads: "Robert Swinney, passport clerk, and Carole Lombard, applying for her passport in Lo read more
Of Powell, parades and egg nogs
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 27, 2018
Yesterday's entry focused on Carole Lombard's second husband, Clark Gable. Today's subject is Clark's predecessor in that role, William Powell...and here he is with Carole at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Calif., a photo I'd never seen until a few days ago. It's courtesy of Darlene Douma Day and the read more
'Silver Screen,' June 1935: A star and his horse
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 26, 2018
Carole Lombard and Clark Gable enjoyed going to the races, and this day after Christmas marks the traditional southern California opening day for the picturesque Santa Anita thoroughbred track.Carole and Clark loved horses......but did you know Gable once owned a racing thoroughbred? The filly was n read more
'Hollywood,' January 1935: Carole (and Clark) wish you the merriest, and more
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 25, 2018
I hope all of you are having a merry Christmas 2018, as Carole Lombard is in this publicity still from 1939's "In Name Only." It was made at about the same time as her marriage to Clark Gable.As fate would have it, several years before -- prior to their highly-publicized romance -- they were "neighb read more
A Christmas Carole and a nostalgic menu
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 24, 2018
Yesterday's entry dealt with Carole Lombard's final film for Paramount, "True Confession," which hit many U.S. theaters in December 1937. That month, the studio ran this alluring image of Lombard in many trade papers:"Fa-la-la-la-la," indeed.We regularly write about the legendary nightspots in Holly read more
Closing out '37 with a 'Confession' in the UK
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 23, 2018
All things considered, 1937 was probably the peak year of Carole Lombard as movie draw. (From 1939 on, she'd chiefly be viewed as Mrs. Clark Gable, something she full well understood.) It began with the Silver Screen cover in January '37, fresh off the success of "My Man Godfrey," and close to year' read more
For the 'Record' (in Philly), it's Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 22, 2018
It's hard for many of us to comprehend the status of Carole Lombard and other movie stars in the 1930s. Yes, we have celebrities today, but we view most of them through the life-size prism of television screens, whether they be on TV series or in movies. People didn't have that option eight decades read more
Before 'Breakfast,' Universal had a 'Dinner'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 21, 2018
Many fans know Carole Lombard made two films for Universal, both in 1936 -- "My Man Godfrey," of course, and her first, "Love Before Breakfast" (shown above, with Cesar Romero). But did you know "Breakfast" initially had a different title, one also food-related? Here's proof:This is from a 1936 adva read more
Drink up! After Repeal, Carole serves up a recipe
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 20, 2018
Carole Lombard and then-husband William Powell enjoy a drink with actor Ernest Truex and his wife at Agua Caliente, Mexico in January 1933. It was something none of them could legally do in the States at the time because of a little thing called Prohibition (aka the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Consti read more
From the seller who brought you yesterday's entry...
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 19, 2018
A sequel of sorts -- or, more accurately, a prequel. That's since the Carole Lombard film this rare still is from came out more than three years before "No More Orchids." It's from her first all-talkie, "High Voltage" at Pathe in 1929.It shows the principal cast members of this snowbound drama, incl read more
'Orchids' to this rarity
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 18, 2018
While few would call 1932's "No More Orchids" a classic, one could claim it's the third-best of Carole Lombard's five films for Columbia, trailing "Twentieth Century" (of course) and probably "Virtue." Lombard gives a solid performance, with hints of the comedic dynamo she'd become later that decade read more
in 2019, get to know this Lombard leading man
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 17, 2018
Although fate cut short Carole Lombard's movie career, she worked with many of the era's top leading men, some of them multiple times. She made four films with Fred MacMurray and three with William Powell, for instance.Carole also made two movies with an actor whose star shone brightly during much o read more
Carole goes 'high-hat,' and you can win a book
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 16, 2018
What's gotten in to Carole Lombard? Generally the unassuming sort, she here looks to be enjoying a night at the opera channeling her inner Margaret Dumont. (Carole and first husband William Powell enjoyed opera at least once, although this 1933 pic of them with Gloria Swanson and husband Michael Far read more
What A Character! blogathon: That beleaguered paterfamilias, Eugene Pallette
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 15, 2018
Every character actor dreams of landing a role as career-defining as that given` a lead, and in 1936 Eugene Pallette did just that in "My Man Godfrey." As businessman Alexander Bullock -- the lone note of sanity in a scatterbrained but wealthy Park Avenue family -- he wins our sympathy, as he's clan read more
Welcome home to plum and pink
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 14, 2018
It's spring 1934, and Carole Lombard's riding high. Her latest release, Columbia's "Twentieth Century," is drawing rave reviews as a stellar example of a new genre that would ultimately be known as "screwball comedy." Moreover, Carole -- now eight or nine months divorced from William Powell -- has r read more
Thoughts on the Blu-ray of 'Made For Each Other'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 13, 2018
Carole Lombard's first dramatic foray in several years, 1939's "Made For Each Other" (she's shown alongside co-star James Stewart) and recently issued on Blu-ray for the first time, was reviewed several days ago at dvdtalk.com. Reviewer Stuart Galbraith provides some fascinating perspectives on the read more