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A Wilder retrospective: Lubitsch comes to Westwood
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 5, 2018
Carole Lombard fulfilled a longtime dream in the fall of 1941 when she finally was able to act in an Ernst Lubitsch film, "To Be Or Not To Be." They'd been on good terms since the early 1930s, when Carole yearned to be in one of his movies. He'd already played a key role in her career in 1935 and ea read more
To all of you...
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 4, 2018
...a happy and safe Fourth of July, as Carole Lombard reminds you what the day stands for. read more
Carole comes east again, part 2
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 3, 2018
When we last left Carole Lombard, it was Jan. 11, 1935. She had just arrived at Pennsylvania Station in New York City after her 14-hour flight from Los Angeles turned into a three-day-and-14-hour plane/train journey (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/677637.html). What did she do while in town, read more
Carole comes east again (part 1)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 2, 2018
Carole Lombard apparently made two visits to New York during her brief lifetime -- in mid-1930 to make "Fast And Loose" (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/916803.html) and in January 1935 (she's shown above getting off a train at Pennsylvania Station). Not long ago, we ran an entry regarding a s read more
Happy 102nd, Olivia!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 1, 2018
Carole & Co. normally opens each entry with an image of Carole Lombard, or directly related to her. Today we're making an exception to honor the 102nd birthday of Olivia de Havilland, shown as Melanie Hamilton alongside Clark Gable's Rhett Butler in the epic "Gone With The Wind" -- and I'm certain read more
Seven pics, five films: Vintage original Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 30, 2018
If you collect vintage original Carole Lombard photos, have we got news for you. Seven stills, from five of her movies, have just been posted on eBay. As all of these date back more than 85 years, they won't come cheaply...but they're all gorgeous.Above is one of three images from her 1931 film "Lad read more
Posters with plenty of personality
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 29, 2018
Above is an image of Carole Lombard that Paramount Pictures described as a "personality poster," issued to theaters to promote studio starpower while decorating the lobby. This, from 1932, is said to have measured 14" x 17" (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/546321.html).But what I didn't know u read more
Carol(e) comes east
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 28, 2018
"Fast And Loose," shown above at the fabled Paramount Theater in Times Square after its release in November 1930, was the only film Carole Lombard made at Paramount Pictures' East Coast studios in Astoria, Queens.We've previously discussed what New York was like in mid-1930s, when Lombard visited th read more
'True Confession': A Lombard script is for sale
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 27, 2018
Someone call Carole Lombard to give her the news: One of her scripts now is available, more than 80 years after it was converted into a movie.It's for "True Confession," Carole's final film for Paramount and one that inspires both avid defenders and intense detractors. (Leonard Maltin, otherwise a L read more
Carole the pinch-hitting columnist
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 26, 2018
Carole Lombard loved playing baseball in her tomboy youth (she's shown recreating her past in a scene from the Mack Sennett short "The Campus Vamp"), so pinch-hitting was a familiar concept to her. And during the 1930s, she did precisely that -- but with a typewriter, not a bat.We've previously note read more
That swimsuit pic
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 25, 2018
I don't mean to be boastful, but I believe I've contributed to Carole Lombard research in the 11 years I've run Carole & Co. For example, I've shown through newspaper clippings that contrary to some biographies, Jane Alice Peters took the professional name "Carole Lombard" in 1925, and that she only read more
The 'Times' of Lombard's life, 1928
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 24, 2018
Carole Lombard's Norma Nurmi character wound up losing this sprint in the 1928 Mack Sennett short "Run, Girl, Run" due to her vanity, but Lombard -- a school track star earlier in the decade -- vowed to be a winner in '28, her first full calendar year back as an actress since the automobile accident read more
The 'Times' of Lombard's life, 1927
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 23, 2018
In 2011, we ran a series of entries about Carole Lombard items that ran in the Los Angeles Times in 1925, before an automobile accident early next year sent the Fox starlet's career in an entirely different direction (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/394176.html; https://carole-and-co.livejourn read more
A screen star comes to Shreveport
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 22, 2018
Add one more city to the list of places graced by the presence of Carole Lombard.It's Shreveport, La., in the north-central part of the state, some distance geographically -- and culturally -- from New Orleans. It's where Carole stopped for a spell on Feb. 1, 1935 while flying home to Los Angeles af read more
Train-ing exercise: 'Twentieth Century' and railroad cinematic classics
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 21, 2018
Carole Lombard fans don't have to be told that her breakthrough film, "Twentieth Century," is one of the greatest movies set aboard a train. (She's shown with co-star John Barrymore, who showered her with praise following her performance.) But what are other classics of this transportation subgenre? read more
Some 'Sennett girls'...including Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 20, 2018
One reason Mack Sennett hired Carole Lombard in 1927, despite an automobile accident the year before that derailed a budding career at Fox, was that Lombard had a superb figure and looked great in a swimsuit. (She makes that evident above as has her nose powdered between takes of "The Swim Princess. read more
'Fools' for chemistry
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 19, 2018
Was "Fools For Scandal" the biggest misfire of Carole Lombard's career? It certainly knocked her down a peg after her pair of late 1937 triumphs, "Nothing Sacred" and "True Confession." She and Warners simply weren't, to borrow the title of one of her later films, made for each other.She'd had chanc read more
'Modern Screen,' March 1939: Of Clark and Carole's marital past
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 18, 2018
As the public waited for its cinematic king and queen to tie the knot at the start of 1939, fan magazines fueled interest in Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. One of them was Modern Screen, which for its March issue ran a two-page photo spread about his two prior wives and her one former husband:This read more
DVD: Lombard plays 'Fast And Loose,' and put on Thelma's shorts
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 17, 2018
Yesterday's entry alerted you to a new and improved Criterion DVD of the Carole Lombard classic "My Man Godfrey." As it turns out, it's not her only film now making waves on home video."Fast And Loose" (above, with Frank Morgan), the 1930 film Lombard shot at Paramount's Astoria studios in Queens, w read more
'Godfrey.' Criterion. Bigger and better.
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 16, 2018
Perhaps Carole Lombard's most iconic movie, "My Man Godfrey," is getting the DVD treatment from classic film specialist Criterion.No, this is not a repeat of a Carole & Co. entry from summer 2001 (for one thing, the site wasn't born for another six years). And many of you probably own that edition ( read more