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Happy Thanksgiving Day
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 22, 2018
From Carole Lombard and Clark Gable! read more
Carole gives thanks -- with an unexpected host
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 21, 2018
This was a Thanksgiving message Carole Lombard gave readers of Movie Mirror in its December 1939 issue, her first of three Thanksgivings as Clark Gable's wife:But three years earlier, Carole and Clark's first as a couple (though Gable still was technically married to Rhea Langham), they spent it wit read more
Of Lombard and Lucy (and a Cuban, too)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 20, 2018
Carole Lombard and Lucille Ball each had remarkable beauty and became friends about 1940 when both were on the RKO lot. Ball idolized Lombard and always deemed her an influence on her comedic style.Lucy had some success in films and on radio throughout the 1940s, but it was in the new medium of tele read more
Monkeying around with 'Godfrey'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 19, 2018
Carole Lombard showed plenty of fashion sense in the screwball classic "My Man Godfrey"...but one of the items she wore wouldn't pass muster 82 years after the film was released. That's monkey fur Lombard is wearing over a black satin cape, stylish if not PC. If you don't believe she's shed in simia read more
Now that's a pool party
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 18, 2018
Carole Lombard enjoyed hanging out near the pool (and if pools were sentient, no doubt they'd feel likewise), and while we have no documented proof she swam here......chances are she did. After all, what woman could resist a pool that transformed any mortal into a goddess?It's the famed Neptune Pool read more
Some pretty sweet poses
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 17, 2018
After years of seeing Carole Lombard photos, I'm fairly certain when a new pose comes across, and it appears the one above is in that category. It looks to be taken in the mid- or late 1930s, though beyond that I can't tell you too much more, other than it's 8 1/2" x 11", original, and in fine condi read more
Next April, get pre-Code(d)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 16, 2018
Carole Lombard, aka New York streetwalker "Mae," begins her exile to Danbury, Conn., after being convicted on a Manhattan morals charge. But she decides to instead exit at 125th Street -- not to ply her trade again, but to make a new start in the big city. She eventually does, with some hardships al read more
TCM remembers Mary
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 15, 2018
As far as I know, this is the only joint image of Carole Lombard and Paramount stablemate Mary Carlisle, who died Aug. 1 at age 104. It's from 1932 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and shows Lombard with then-husband William Powell. (I cannot identify the man between Mary and Carole.)Carlisle read more
Tracking down a 'Century'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 14, 2018
In retrospect, it's the most pivotal film of Carole Lombard's career; take it out of her equation, and today, Lombard likely would be a relatively obscure actress. It brought qualities out in her she had never before shown. It was among the first landmark movies of a popular cinematic genre, "screwb read more
Did Howard deflower Carole? A new book's author isn't sure
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 13, 2018
Were Carole Lombard and Howard Hughes -- two respective icons linked by the film industry -- lovers?For more than four decades, many Lombard fans have believed it as gospel. Their source? "Screwball," Larry Swindell's biography of the actress.In it, Swindell alleges Lombard's first intimate relation read more
Her REAL final photo session
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 12, 2018
For years, many of us believed Carole Lombard's last photo session took place New Year's Eve, 1941, under the direction of photographer Robert Coburn for "To Be Or Not To Be." It turns Coburn was involved in Carole's final session, but it occurred in 1942 -- and "To Be Or Not To Be" had nothing to d read more
A century after ending 'the war to end all wars'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 11, 2018
This image of the girl then known as Jane Alice Peters is from Frederick Ott's book "The Films Of Carole Lombard," showing her at about age nine or 10, likely sometime during 1918. From her mother, Elizabeth Peters, Jane had learned the importance of aiding others, and here she was aiding the war ef read more
That's Rich(ee), plus a 'Cinematic' postponement
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 10, 2018
Carole Lombard's seven years at Paramount Pictures may have had their ups and downs in terms of movies, but few could argue with her success there in still portraits. The pic above, which looks to be from 1934, was taken by a photographer whose reputation should be better known, since he certainly r read more
Between a Coward and Cary
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 9, 2018
One benefit of being a celebrity such as Carole Lombard is that you get to meet many other celebrities. Take this photo, for example. Flanking Carole to her right is future co-star Cary Grant, whom she'd known since 1932. To her left, the English renaissance man and future "Sir," Noel Coward. They'r read more
Someone's trash is another one's treasure
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 8, 2018
Stunning Carole Lombard cover, doncha think? It's from the October 1932 issue of Hollywood magazine. Well, a few months ago someone found this and other vintage fan mags "in a pile on the sidewalk." So what did she do while on her way to dinner? What you or I as classic Hollywood fans would do -- "I read more
Lombard. Hurrell. Vintage. What a combination.
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 7, 2018
There are Carole Lombard pictures of a special breed, and this is one of them. It's Paramount p1202-1346, and we uncover even more tantalizing information on the back:* For one thing, it was taken by George Hurrell, a legend in Hollywood portrait photography.* For another, the stamps from Hurrell an read more
'Short, fat and funny' (and fired?). Carole talks, December 1932
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 6, 2018
By late 1932, much of the romance between Carole Lombard and William Powell had dissipated (though not the affection), but they managed to put up a good front when the press came calling. So it was they December, when Harry Brundidge, a writer for the St. Louis Star and Times, dropped by to intervie read more
Two blogathons on the horizon
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 5, 2018
Those Carole Lombard fans endowed with good memories may remember several blogathons I have either run or co-run -- among them, October 2011's "Carole-tennial + 3" for the 103rd anniversary of Lombard's birth (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/450346.html) and the Romantic Comedy Blogathon to op read more
Cinematic Sundays: 'No Man Of Her Own'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 4, 2018
Be honest, people -- if Carole Lombard and Clark Gable hadn't later fallen in love and married, would their lone on-screen collaboration, "No Man Of Her Own," be all that well remembered today? I have my doubts. It'd probably have the same type of middling acclaim Lombard received for her two films read more
Czech out these pics
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 3, 2018
Here's Carole Lombard, preparing to dance up an anachronistic storm with George Raft in the 1934 Paramount pre-Code "Bolero." More info can be found on the back:It's one of three vintage Lombard pics up for auction by a seller from the Czech Republic. Another features Carole in her other film with R read more