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Star-crossed: Clark and Carole on defacing the Donald
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 25, 2018
For Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, it's just another day in Hollywood heaven, where the commissary suspiciously resembles the old Vine Street Brown Derby, and where we find them enjoying lunch. (Whether or not you choose to consider the following "fake news" is up to you.)__________________________ read more
Tarantino turns the Boulevard back to 1969
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 24, 2018
Carole Lombard loved Hollywood Boulevard -- heck, she even lived on the street for several years (the photo above was taken in the house she called home in the mid-1930s). So I have a feeling she'd appreciate the work being done to recapture the spirit of the street by this man......Quentin Tarantin read more
Carole, Colman, Clifton, Cole (oh, and Dietrich, too)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 23, 2018
Here's something new to my eyes -- a photo of Carole Lombard and Cole Porter! (And for the news few days here in southern California, it'll be "Too Darn Hot.") I had no idea they had ever met.Porter's at far right, from left are host Clifton Webb, Carole, Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich. To borro read more
Cinematic Sundays: 'High Voltage'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 22, 2018
Today, we introduce a new concept at Carole & Co. -- "Cinematic Sundays." Each week, we'll examine each of Carole Lombard's talking feature films through newspapers of the time. Since this is chronological, let's kick things off with "High Voltage," made for Pathe in early 1929.From a perspective of read more
'Screenland,' July 1934: A star from a hometown angle
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 21, 2018
Carole Lombard's work in "Twentieth Century" opposite John Barrymore -- one of the industry's most respected actors -- would boost what was to then a somewhat middling career. In fact, Barrymore would laud Lombard when signing a photo to her:When word got around of his plaudits, the fan magazines to read more
Carole and Clark, camp
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 20, 2018
No, not as in Susan Sontag or the 1966 "Batman" TV series. (For that "camp" from Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, see "White Woman" and "Parnell," respectively.) The camp we're referring to is this:Yep, Carole and Clark roughing it in the great outdoors, not a director or studio boss in sight. And so read more
The romantic comedy: Not dead yet
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 19, 2018
Carole Lombard's prowess at romantic comedy was proven with "Hands Across The Table" (1935) and "My Man Godfrey" (1936), although the latter more often is placed in the "screwball" category. Romcoms, as they're now popularly known, have been an audience favorite since silent days.But in recent years read more
A 'case history' of Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 18, 2018
At the beginning of 1939, Carole Lombard was effectively a car stopped at a red light, awaiting the signal to turn green so she could marry Clark Gable. While she waited, a publication I heretofore hadn't heard of ran a two-page pictorial of her.I don't know anything about a magazine called Glamour read more
Lombard and 'what if,' part 2: Ignited by 'Dynamite'?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 17, 2018
In our previous entry, we tried to imagine how Carole Lombard's career would have changed had her automobile accident in late 1925 or early 1926 had never occurred. This time, we're conjecturing a few years ahead, to the start of 1929. It looked to be an auspicious year for the actress, who had turn read more
Lombard and 'what if', part 1: No automobile accident
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 16, 2018
Carole Lombard's "what might have been" stories usually concern what she would have done had there been no fatal plane crash on Jan. 16, 1942. Imagine Lombard living a typical American female lifespan, existing into the 1970s or 1980s -- heck, perhaps witnessing the dawn of the 21st century. (Whethe read more
'Motion Picture', November 1931: Carole as cover girl
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 15, 2018
This enchanting Marland Stone artwork of Carole Lombard graced the cover of the November 1931 issue of Motion Picture magazine. And while there's no inside article expressly about her, there are some other Lombard tidbits.For example, she's mentioned in a story about hometown folk (in this case, "ho read more
A pair of new images
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 14, 2018
I'm always delighted to discover a new (to me) Carole Lombard image, particularly when it's from her Paramount p1202 collection (p1202 was her "player" code number at the studio). Above is p1202-977, said to be from lead studio photographer Eugene Robert Richee in 1935.That pic isn't available, but read more
Choose its size, choose its paper
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 13, 2018
Collectors of Carole Lombard photographs each have their particular preferences. Some like vintage images, ideally with a snipe on the back from the studio that issued it or the photographer's stamp. Others don't care whether or not it's original, as long as its reproduction captures every facet of read more
Lombard + Thomas: Sublime, not sexy, and rare
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 12, 2018
This likely is the image in the mind's eye of many Carole Lombard fans when the name William E. Thomas is mentioned. The Pathe photographer took several of the raciest pics ever seen of Lombard, then all of 20, such as that above.But Thomas didn't limit himself to photos that verged on the erotic. M read more
A 'Supernatural' assignment: Writing on deadline
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 11, 2018
"Supernatural" is an odd creature in the Carole Lombard cinematic canon. It's her lone starring vehicle in what we now would call "genre" filmmaking -- in this case, horror, something rarely explored in 1933 by Hollywood majors such as her home studio of Paramount. And it was made at a time when Lom read more
'Photoplay,' October 1929: The price paid for beauty
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 10, 2018
The Carole Lombard of 1929, a recent alumna of the Mack Sennett slapstick academy, had begun graduate study in drama at Pathe. The cost of the courses: The "e" in her first name, as well as a few pounds to erase her formerly curvy self into a lithe lady on the verge of turning 21.It was worth it -- read more
And Marie's the name...
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 9, 2018
"Fools For Scandal" wasn't much of a movie, but at least it let Carole Lombard interact with a future female comedy star of film, radio and TV...Marie Wilson.Wilson was a Warners contract player in the second half of the 1930s -- too late for her to experience the studio's pre-Code era (her shapely read more
Lombard, (partly) MIA
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 8, 2018
In the spring of 1929, Carole (or as then known, Carol) Lombard was 20 years ago and a Hollywood up-and-comer -- four years after debuting as a Fox starlet, and three years after an auto accident sidelined her for a while. That May, Motion Picture magazine ran a feature on her, "A Teddy-Made Actress read more
Memorabilia from a cut-rate debutante
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 7, 2018
One of the most difficult pieces of Carole Lombard memorabilia to find is from her 1936 screwball classic "My Man Godfrey." It was a 3" x 4" promotional booklet offered by Universal called "Diary Of A Debutante," meant to mimic a diary dizzy character Irene Bullock might have written about Godfrey, read more
Travel through time in Tinseltown
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 6, 2018
Carole Lombard (seen leaving the Vine Street Brown Derby restaurant with Fredric March) adored Hollywood -- and by that, we mean both the entertainment industry and the area of Los Angeles bearing its name. In fact, she lived for nearly two years in a house on Hollywood Boulevard, about a dozen bloc read more