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Getting a read on 'Stand Tall!' today
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 26, 2018
Carole Lombard reads through a script, pouring over its elements. I can't read the dialogue, so I can't tell what film it's from or whether it was a project she ultimately didn't make.Today, I take my next step as a screenwriter at the Die Laughing Film Festival in Hollywood, as actors will read a s read more
For Carole and car buffs...and a fantastic Cup final
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 25, 2018
While she's shown here posing on the passenger side of a vehicle, Carole Lombard loved cars. Her passion for them wasn't to the level of second husband Clark Gable, mind you; Carole's cars were more utilitarian than fancy (generally sedans that called little attention to herself), and she preferred read more
'Stand Tall!'...and die laughing
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 24, 2018
We discuss plenty of "what-ifs" pertaining to Carole Lombard had fate given her many years beyond Jan. 16, 1942 -- movie actress, TV actress, film producer to name a few -- but how about Carole Lombard, screenwriter?Why not? She had a good reputation in the industry for understanding a script and wa read more
'Silver Screen,' August 1937: Clark and Carole, cowboy and cowgirl
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 23, 2018
Four years ago, Media History Digital Library added the 1930 to 1940 run of Silver Screen to its array of uploaded classic fan magazines, and I promised I'd mine it for Carole Lombard research. As you may know, real life got in the way. (It also didn't help that I erroneously labeled an Oct. 14, 201 read more
Confession -- Carole's indirectly inspired a font. Is it your type?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 22, 2018
Yes, Carole Lombard, I'm as surprised by the news as you are -- but while "True Confession" may have a mixed legacy, her final Paramount film lives on...in print, though you won't find it used on any typewriter."What is he talking about?", you wonder. Well, check the opening title card to that 1937 read more
A Profile of a 'Scandal'-ous dress
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 21, 2018
In the baseball parlance of Carole Lombard's tomboy childhood, she was a hot hitter at the close of 1937. After her home run in "My Man Godfrey" (above) the previous year, Lombard bashed some doubles and triples with "Swing High, Swing Low" (Paramount's biggest money-maker for all of '37), "Nothing read more
Carole Lombard, designing woman
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 20, 2018
As we've stated in previous entries, Carole Lombard's relative lack of formal education never prevented her from high achievement in the movie industry -- not merely as an actress, but in executive areas as well.She's shown directing Alfred Hitchcock through his customary cameo in "Mr. & Mrs, Smith, read more
Since it's Caturday, let's get artistic
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 19, 2018
Carole Lombard wasn't a dog person, or a cat person, but a pet person. Her fondness for all sorts of species was evident to the public...but today we'll focus on her feline side. Why? Because of this unusual artwork:From all I know about Carole, she would laugh herself silly over this -- a 12" x 12" read more
'Photoplay,' April 1936: Colorfully Carole, and Bill Powell's life story
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 18, 2018
The above photo of Carole Lombard trying out a gown designed for her by Paramount's Travis Banton ran in Photoplay's April 1936 in the first of a three-part series on the studio's fashion maven (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/452343.html). It also included this stylish early color shot of Car read more
This looks rather...sketchy
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 17, 2018
Came across this Carole Lombard image for the first time today, and it intrigues me. Carole's wearing a dress (shown below) seen in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" -- but she's standing in front of a sketch for that very dress.Was the sketch projected onto a screen that she stood before? Did she pose elsewhere a read more
Welcome home, 'Murphy,' and your new neighbor, 'Mom'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 16, 2018
As we occasionally do, we're paying a visit to Hollywood heaven, where Carole Lombard today is paying a visit to an old friend. No, not the "fellow" above, but the man pictured below: ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, shown with his most famous creation, Charlie McCarthy.Bergen: What'd y read more
A different angle on Lombard
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 15, 2018
This luscious photo of Carole Lombard wearing a nightgown, looking oh so seductive, ran in the New York Sunday News and other publications in 1941. But it's not the only shot of her from that session. Witness:More proof Carole looked good from nearly every angle.Those and other Lombard images -- 25 read more
Hope to pick a Flower at Figueroa? Preparing for Los Angeles 3.0
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 14, 2018
This photo of Jane Alice Peters, the future Carole Lombard, on the beach with brothers Stuart and Frederic is believed to be from 1916, a year or two after Elizabeth Peters brought her three children west from Fort Wayne, Ind. I have no idea what they were specifically taught in the city's public sc read more
Remembering my mother on this day
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 13, 2018
Probably no person was closer to Carole Lombard during her lifetime than her mother, Elizabeth Peters. She gave daughter Jane Alice confidence, instilling in her feminist qualities atypical for the era. She was a confidante, as many mothers are, someone Carole could turn to when she sought refuge fr read more
'Dressing' up for the censors
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 12, 2018
"We're Not Dressing," Paramount's 1934 musical reworking of "The Admirable Crichton," holds a unique place in Carole Lombard lore. It's her only film with Bing Crosby, whose music she loved. (So did millions of Americans in the spring of 1934.) Among the supporting cast was future Broadway star Ethe read more
Tres de 'Cine-Mundial', 1933
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 11, 2018
As far back as its September 1929 issue, Carole (then Carol) Lombard was a popular cover subject for the Mexican movie magazine Cine-Mundial. We have three more examples of Lombard featured in its pages, all from 1933.First, this glimpse of Carole's hands in the May issue, accompanied by her famed b read more
Her parting gift to a nation at war
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 10, 2018
Carole Lombard's yeoman work in Indianapolis on Jan. 15, 1942 paid off in a big way -- and the national press reported it the next day. Witness this from United Press, in newspapers Jan. 16 (I'm not certain where this one is from):Carole's fundraising enabled the American military to have money for read more
'Screen Guide', December 1937: Rocking those stockings
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 9, 2018
Ask a movie buff to mention a 1930s actress with great legs, and it's unlikely Carole Lombard will be the first one he or she mentions. (That honor probably will go to her Paramount stablemate, Marlene Dietrich.) But in her time, Carole was renowned for her shapely legs...and we have proof from a mo read more
'Poised loveliness' comes downtown
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 8, 2018
At the start of 1933, Carole Lombard still was better known for how she dressed than how she acted, although her work opposite Clark Gable in the recent "No Man Of Her Own" opened some eyes (if not then her own) as to what she could become. But Mrs. William Powell (already in a deteriorating marriag read more
Outfitted for a 'Brief Moment'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 7, 2018
Is "Brief Moment" the most overlooked of Carole Lombard's five films for Columbia? You could make a good case for that. It doesn't have the pre-Code dynamite of "Virtue" nor the occasional comic Carole forays of "No More Orchids." Her last for the studio, "Lady By Choice," gives her some splendid in read more