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Two new images and a really weird Barrymore story
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 14, 2020
Uncovering a heretofore unseen Carole Lombard p1202 photo from Paramount is always a thrill, and so it is here, p1202-510 from 1933. Carole's holding some film strips in her hand (stills she wants to further examine?). I have no idea which staff photographer snapped this.Nor do I know who took this read more
The cadet who kissed Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 13, 2020
January 15, 1942 would be a momentous day for Carole Lombard, albeit one fate would not give her much time to savor. As it turned out, her path intersected with a cadet at Culver Military Academy who journeyed to Indianapolis to participate in ceremonies associated with Lombard's war bond rally.Davi read more
A 'Hollywood' snapshot of 1932
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 12, 2020
The October 1932 issue of Hollywood magazine features a fetching portrait of Carole Lombard on the cover. I'd like to give you a complete list of Lombard references in the issue, but the Media History Digital Library only has access to issues between 1934 and 1943. Fortunately, the person selling th read more
Mrs. Smith goes glam
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 11, 2020
After two years making dramatic films, Carole Lombard triumphantly returned to comedy in early 1941 with the marital farce "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (directed by, of all people, Alfred Hitchcock). Instead of the nurse and waitress outfits she'd worn in her previous two movies, Carole played an upper-middle read more
Go away and get mugged
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 10, 2020
Just what is Carole Lombard quaffing while with Clark Gable? Coffee? Tea? (Since I don't drink the former and love the latter, I'll assume that's what she's having.) But no matter what beverage it is, you can celebrate her life with this commemorative mug:Isn't that neat? It's an 11-ounce ceramic mu read more
'Cornering' this p1202
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 9, 2020
I briefly thought I had come across a previously unseen Carole Lombard p1202 portrait from Paramount that's now up for auction at eBay, but further file research proved I was wrong. However, there is an angle that makes this image unusual. Look at the upper right-hand corner: I had forgotten that th read more
TCM salutes another blonde icon
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 8, 2020
I admit this isn't much of a photo, but when you have to picture Carole Lombard and Jean Harlow in the same image, you don't have much of a choice. This is from a 1935 radio magazine about the feud between Walter Winchell (at far left, with Harlow) and Jimmy Fidler (at right, with Lombard). At cente read more
Not an original, but a new (to me) p1202
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 7, 2020
For me, discovering a previously unseen Carole Lombard p1202 Paramount photo is akin to finding buried treasure. Today's pot of gold is p1202-1417, likely from 1936, where Carole leans back, serenely regal. Isn't it marvelous?We also have the image from a slightly different angle......and from each read more
Saluting her 112th
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 6, 2020
What can I say today, Oct. 6 -- the anniversary of Carole Lombard's birth -- that I haven't said before? This marks the 14th time Carole's birthday has come up since this site began in June 2007, and even when my life was at its lowest in 2016 (I spent much of the year on Skid Row in Los Angeles aft read more
For Lombard, a few from '40
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 5, 2020
1940 would be an interesting and somewhat productive year for Carole Lombard, shown here in color transparency. Weddings of people important in her life marked the early part of the year. First, ex-husband William Powell remarried, this time to actress Diana Lewis, a woman more than a decade younger read more
The "White Woman" that might have been?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 4, 2020
Carole Lombard's 1933 film "White Woman" was an exercise in "camp" decades before the term became part of popular culture. It's a potboiler set in steamy Malaysia, where Carole plays a nightclub singer who marries a rubber plantation owner, discovers his cruel nature and becomes attracted to the pla read more
Carole and Clark, with the look of love
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 3, 2020
The look of love? Yeah, I think so. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable gaze at each other as if there were no other people in the world...and if Lombard was in love with me, I'd give her that gaze, too.That's a Clark and Carole image I'm pretty certain I've never seen before. I sense that also applies t read more
Hell, this photo is "Heaven"-ly
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 2, 2020
"From Hell To Heaven," a Paramount programmer from early 1933, is among the least seen of Carole Lombard's features, though it was used for this photo in the April 1933 issue of Screenland. Items from this film are relatively few, but one publicity still has popped up on eBay. It's this, showing Ca read more
An incredible Indianapolis find
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 1, 2020
Carole Lombard is shown at a wartime ceremony near the Indiana state capitol on Jan. 15, 1942 -- and little did she know it would be the last full day of her life. Three other photos from that fateful day have surfaced on eBay...and whomever's in charge of this auction isn't aware of the whole story read more
Of course TCM will celebrate her birthday!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 30, 2020
Next Tuesday, Oct. 6, is the 112th anniversary of Carole Lombard's birth...and as it does most years on that date, Turner Classic Movies is celebrating with several of her movies. Here's the schedule (all times Eastern):* 10:30 a.m. -- "Vigil In The Night" (1940)* 12:15 p.m. -- "The Gay Bride" (1934 read more
Professional prints at a practical price
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 29, 2020
If the above image of Carole Lombard in a form-fitting gown fails to elicit a response from you, see a doctor right away and have your humanity checked. The photo, from a session for MGM's "The Gay Bride" in 1934, is among pictures that can be converted into long-lasting prints worth framing, create read more
A table read (for a great cause) 'Becomes Her'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 28, 2020
Is this a table read for "To Be Or Not To Be"? It very well could be, what with Carole Lombard laughing at Jack Benny (turned away from us), with young supporting player Robert Stack across the table...and of course, that's director Ernst Lubitsch laughing uproariously at the end. Table reads are pl read more
Some taxing thoughts from 1938
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 27, 2020
In light of recent events, I thought it fitting to go back to August 1938 and how Carole Lombard (with the help of ace publicist Russell Birdwell) wound up in the news that month:By the end of the month, Walter Winchell's hugely popular syndicated column ran this about her. (Lombard had pinch-hit fo read more
That's a lot of 'Picturegoer'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 26, 2020
One advantage British fan magazines of the Golden Age had on their American counterparts is that they published weekly, not monthly, and news and film reviews thus were more up-to-date. One of the UK's best publications was Picturegoer, where Carole Lombard is shown on the cover in May 1935.If you'r read more
From San Simeon to Culver City to Napa, plus a pair of birthdays
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 25, 2020
Carole Lombard spent most of her 33 years within the state of California, so the vast majority of her photos were shot there...like the image above of her and relatively new husband William Powell, taken at Hearst Castle in San Simeon not long after the couple returned from their honeymoon in Hawaii read more